Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...than the ones my grandparents gave me for my bat mitzvah.” Charitably, the author—Princeton’s Tessa Brown ’08—managed to identify one black man worthy of praise, seeing in “Kanye West and his ghetto fabulous take on the argyle sweater vest,” a true fashionista’s eye. Oh wait, Kanye West isn’t “ghetto fabulous.” He’s just black...
...viewed themselves and their own humanity, the classist discrimination against black people has had a damaging impact on the psyche of black Americans today. In conversations about what it means to be “authentically” black, people often reference one’s connection to the ghetto. In other situations, someone’s economic background may be checked—the poorer you are, the more legitimately black...
...While the shift has helped Japanese corporations post record profits, others worry about a generation of workers mired in a low-wage temp ghetto-34% of male and 55% of female part-timers make less than $11,000 a year. All of this feeds the success of Haken, which satirizes the changing nature of the Japanese workplace. The confident and capable Haruko, played by the 33-year-old actress Ryoko Shinohara, makes more than the average part-timer but still has to put condescending co-workers in their place-onscreen justice for Japan's downtrodden real-life temps. "It feels...
...friends may seem trustworthy, but that doesn’t necessarily change your negative view of black people as a whole. It’s alright to have one or two black families in the neighborhood, but as soon as more start to move in, the neighborhood becomes a ghetto. There’s only a certain level of blackness that many people feel they can tolerate—the token gives them the perfect amount.Here’s what really disturbs me: this notion that the token is better than other black people. Why is it that every...
...friends may seem trustworthy, but that doesn’t necessarily change your negative view of black people as a whole. It’s alright to have one or two black families in the neighborhood, but as soon as more start to move in, the neighborhood becomes a ghetto. There’s only a certain level of blackness that many people feel they can tolerate—the token gives them the perfect amount...