Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jesse Jackson's bid for a presidential candidacy reflects the maturation of Afro-American politics. No claimant group in American politics--whether interest groups like labor and farmers in early 20th century, women today, or ethnic groups today like Blacks and Hispanics--can consider itself at the maturation stage in political status until it can make waves in the sea of candidates for the election to the presidency of the United States. Among several ways of doing this is to launch a candidate from the ranks of a claimant group, hoping to gain the nomination of a major party, influence...
...next week Aaron will be going to Sicily, Japan, and Korea to give a series of lectures on American history. The three-country tour will give him a chance to explain, in 50-minute packages, all of American intellectual history, American ethnic writing, and a variety of other topics...
...experiencing a dramatic upswing of racism and intolerance, said the politician who is now a visiting professor of government and sociology at Mt. Holyoke college, calling America "not really a melting pot, but a salad bowl," She urged the audience of more than 350 to actively support racial and ethnic diversity...
...Soviet Union, supporters of Brezhnev's hand-picked successor, Konstantin Chernenko, counterattacked by floating a rumor that Andropov was not Russian but half Armenian and a quarter Jewish. Since Stalin's death there has been an unwritten Kremlin rule that the party chief must be an ethnic Russian. In Medvedev's view, the tactics used by Chernenko's supporters were mere pinpricks to Andropov, who had gained the crucial support in the Politburo of Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov...
Nigerians were relieved that their young democracy had survived one of its most severe tests. When the military turned the country back to civilian rule in 1979, few believed that the new government would be able to cope with the intense ethnic and tribal loyalties that had spawned the military takeovers of the past. Declared Shagari after his reelection: "It is a victory for all Nigerians; it is a victory for democracy." Nigeria, he said, would remain nonaligned but "very much" tied to the West...