Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RAWG joined the Greater Boston Legal Services, Local 26 and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in backing the legislative efforts of CPAWC, a Chinatown based community organization. RAWG, the only area student group actively involved in the lobbying effort, participated with CPAWC in Harvard's multi-ethnic VISIONS conference in February, said Liao...
Racial politics is a game where a candidate for office is supported because of his or her racial or ethnic background. Since 1980, Black voters have gone 9-to-1 for the Democratic ticket while the Democrats have failed to pull in over 40 percent of whites...
...LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan (Putnam; $18.95). A bright, sharp-flavored first novel on growing up ethnic in the U.S. The topic sounds familiar, but the Chinese spice added to this old recipe is invigorating and refreshingly true...
...Communist Yugoslavia, not a member of the Soviet satellite bloc, reform moves have opened yawning rifts between the country's eight diverse republics and provinces and a flock of feuding ethnic groups. Serbian nationalists, led by the charismatic Slobodan Milossevic, are pursuing a dream of dominance in one part of the country, while a divided national leadership is struggling to stave off collapse of the Yugoslav economy...
Growing up ethnic is surely the liveliest theme to appear in the American novel since the closing of the frontier (growing up alienated and getting a divorce are the dreariest). One cheerful result is that Wasps, to the disgust of Nathan Zuckerman's relatives, now know about Jewish families, shnorrers, yentas and all, and that Catholics are knowledgeable about those little ethnicities that Presbyterians possess but do not like to admit to. Northerners understand Southerners, at least on paper, and whites even know something of how life ferments, black among black...