Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pathos is not usually associated with the Mexican-American, i.e. Chicano in the era of Radical and Ethnic Chic. Tragedy, oppression and broken promises, yes. But this week, in the Letters to the Editor column of Tuesday, (Dec. 14) a disappointing sense of the pathetic seemed uniquely...
Daley's Chicago worked for those who like to drive, and for the building contractors who profit from expressway construction. But it didn't work for the ethnic neighborhoods uprooted by his pet projects. Hizzoner didn't have much sympathy for citizens who prefer public transportation--a mess in the city...
What may not have made Daley happy was to see the city break up along ethnic lines, something his presence always prevented. The blacks caucused to support Frost in his bid for the acting mayor spot--a position much of Chicago thought he deserved. The Poles met too and a couple of Jewish aldermen claimed Polish grandmothers to get in on the conference...
Officially, city hall was closed in mourning for Chicago's late mayor, Richard Daley. Yet even before "the Boss" was buried, aldermen darted from one smoke-filled room to another, trying to work out a deal that would placate the city's clamorous ethnic groups. Proceedings were briefly interrupted by a memorial service, then quickly resumed. Daley would have appreciated the rough-and-tumble- and the fact that the Windy City's politicians were having such trouble slicing up the political pie left by the master chef...
...than Massachusetts's it is far more diverse. Boston City Councilor Larry DiCara '71, who voted for White's package with "mixed feelings," said that 45 per cent of New England cities and 81 per cent of Middle Atlantic cities have bi-partisan elections. Boston's extreme racism, balkanized ethnic neighborhoods, and overwhelming Democratic tendencies place it in a different situation...