Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iacocca, on the other hand, has promoted what he calls an "ethnic Williamsburg" concept in the restoration. His toughness softens as he describes his vision of having visitors "see exactly what your mother or father or grandparents saw. You would walk into the Great Hall and meditate and pray, because it is like a church--it is just beautiful." There would be exhibits explaining why Ellis had become "an island of tears," and "you could punch a computer and find out what boats your parents came on." Park Service officials in turn dismissed this as "an ethnic Disneyland...
...essays in Part II's "Women to Women" focus on ideological questions of family, education, work, politics, and sex as they relate to women's condition. Two women writers from contrasting ethnic and economic backgrounds exchange views, bearing witness to the other woman's experience from their respective sides of the First World/Third World fence. The gender question is not isolated but recognized as only part of the broader model of race, gender, and class...
Author Angela Davis, professor of Black Philosophy at San Francisco State University, expresses wariness of "the white women's burden," as she labels the chauvinistic tendencies of Western feminists. Caught up in the question of gender, they can be colorblind to the crucial ethnic and cultural differences among women, succumbing to imperialist logic in the domain of female sexuality...
They would not have seemed out of place at a supermarket check-out counter or standing in line to see a movie. They could have come together by chance just about anywhere in the U.S. Nothing odd here, in this assemblage of sexes and ethnic strains and religions, except maybe the extraordinary American experiment in equality inching forward, for the nation and the world to see, and being taken largely for granted...
...festival will also allow for tasting of various ethnic foods and exhibitions by the ethnic groups...