Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forcing them to drop their boards and scratch. Democrat Leo Marshall, seeking a seat on Pennsylvania's New Castle County Council in 1966, was the victim of someone who sent a flatbed truck carrying a black band and black semi-nude go-go girls into a conservative white ethnic neighborhood, noisily urging his election. He lost...
...values of the ethnics are under assault, the institutions they cherish-church, family, labor union -under a cloud. They have watched helplessly as the more affluent whites have fled the cities and the poor blacks have taken their place. They feel squeezed between a group that is deserting them and making them bear the brunt of social change and a group that is threatening their schools, neighborhoods and jobs. The combined recession and inflation has hit them hard. Says Baroni: "The ethnic worries how he is going to get the money to send his kid to Penn State...
Suddenly it has become respectable -in fact desirable-to display an ethnic background. It offers an escape from current insecurity and uncertainty, a return to something fixed and firm. It is also part of the contemporary retreat from the notion of the American melting pot. The phenomenon poses-as it does in the case of blacks, Chicanos and Jews-the question of whether the proliferation of a lot of selfabsorbed, self-contained communities is any improvement over the concept of a common citizenry. Along with the release of pride and energy, the ethnic movement has given rise to a certain...
Women legislators are not solely women: they belong to particular ethnic groups, to religious bodies, to economic classes, to political parties...most important, women legislators belong to and are beholden to a male-dominated power structure that draws them in even when they would resist...
...Surely more of us represented on the McGovern side of the cover exist in this fair land of ours than those who exist on the Nixon side: more blacks, more of the ethnic minorities, more of the unemployed, the aged, the hungry: more of the crime-war-Watergate-satiated; more humans truly concerned for the rights and dignity of all human beings...