Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hottest prevailing winds in the magazine business is the current trend toward special-interest publications. The newest subject of concentration is ethnic pride-magazines addressed to English-speaking Americans with foreign backgrounds. Last October saw the first issue of 1-AM (for ItalianAmerican), with items on Italian food, wines and the arts. It was quickly followed by a competitor, Identity, a sophisticated blend of Italian American news and culture. Now comes Nuestro, an ambitious four-color monthly for Hispanic Americans. Nuestro hit newsstands last week at $1 an issue with a splashy cover story announcing "The Latino...
...Hispanic readers, Nuestro's ingenuous latino es bueno tone of voice may seem like ethnic overkill: the cover portrait of two strikingly handsome Latin faces is twice repeated inside the magazine, for example. Still, the magazine's diversity of sources and subjects should encourage a proud sense of unity in the nation's often peckishly insular Hispanic factions. "It will help Latinos realize how much they have in common," says Co-Managing Editor Jose Ferrer, "their roots, achievements and problems." Adds Publisher Lopez: "Nuestro will reflect a viable culture in which God is not a joke...
Latinos is $30 billion-more if the pay of 8 million or so illegal aliens is counted. The number of Latino families is increasing at four times the median U.S. rate, and if the trend continues Latinos will become the country's largest ethnic group by the year 2030. As important, perhaps, are their reserves of creativity. Says the magazine's other managing editor, Philip Herrera:* "Nuestro will provide an outlet and showcase for the tremendous talent in the Latino community, the bulk of which has never been tapped...
...ghost towns after dark, but it still has not begun to meet the basic need of every person for decent shelter. Urban renewal and restoration have become codewords describing upper class conquest of lower class territory. The leveling of the West End, once a solid working-class community of ethnic neighborhoods, and its replacement with the luxury apartments of Charles River Park--drab highrises with acres of parking covering former working-class homes--is an example of urban renewal in its most barbaric form...
...mothballs and everyone cheers at the tattered signs that read "England Get Out of Ireland," the glamor and the electricity have long since gone out of being Irish. Oh, there are still a pack of third-generation, boring middle-class accountant-types who think the best tribute to ethnic purity is to sneak money overseas so the IRA can continue its "glorious struggle." But blowing up orphanages and hospitals somehow doesn't have the romantic appeal of the Easter Rebellion, so for the most part the Irish in America don't think much about the homeland. Instead they've bothered...