Word: ethnicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although seriously weakened by the fuzziness charge, his "ethnic purity" gaffe, and, to some extent, by his image as the Democratic front-runner, Carter still managed to win the nomination without establishing--or at least emphasizing--definitive stands on particular issues. One notable exception. Carter's belated endorsement of the Humphrey-Hawkins bill illustrates a major weakness of the so-called "issues-oriented" campaigns with which the Carter candidacy has so frequently been contrasted...
...approval from voters of almost every conceivable description and, in the process, often ventures into a political wilderness. He quotes Kierkegaard ("Every man is an exception") and Dylan Thomas ("Great is the hand that holds dominion over/ man by a scribbled name"). He discusses his attitudes on death and "ethnic purity," analyzes the biblical injunction against adultery and admits he has been "tempted to judge other people without charity since I was a small child...
...compares in sheer impact and shock power with the South's mass export of human beings. Beginning earlier and accelerating during World War II, for more than two decades they moved north and west by the millions, black and white. The blacks constituted the vast majority, the greatest ethnic migration in American history. And they were Southern, too, perhaps the most quintessentially Southern of all. The North was confronted by a Southern invasion vaster by far than any General Lee ever mounted...
...anger, in fact, that Lee Valenti, a former anti-busing parent now working within the desegregation program, believes has begun to nettle other disgruntled parents into abandoning ROAR, the secret meetings, the subversive threats, and turn, however begrudgingly, toward parent input councils established under the court order--the Racial-Ethnic Parents Councils and the higher level Citywide Parents Advisory Council (CPAC...
...Square also houses approximately 26 recognized churches, and a panoply of ethnic groups to fill them--Russians, Greeks, Haitians, West Indians, Portuguese, Orientals--as well as a growing number of poor people. There are markets which cater to a world of culinary and other needs. There is the Kamala Devi Indian imports store at 1741 Mass Ave, there is a West Indian music store, a YMCA, an Acupuncture Center at 380 Green Street, and Shelter, Inc., a recently-formed overnight hostel for homeless men and women...