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...Angeles Correspondent Dan Goodgame spent a long night with dedicated doctors, most of them black, in a hospital emergency room in the city's violence-ridden south-central ghetto. "It was a relatively quiet night," says Goodgame. "Only five gunshot wounds, four serious stab wounds and four head injuries from clubbings." In the line of duty, Atlanta Reporter Frank Washington once found himself threatened by a "steelyeyed" street tough in Miami's Coconut Grove area. "If he saw me hanging around much longer, he would kill me. It was that simple, and that...
Audiences outside the artistic ghetto required a little more conditioning to this kind of dementia, and it was film and video that set the Heads up without settling them down. Byrne, who writes most of the group's material, helped work up two videos, Once in a Lifetime and Burning Down the House, that cut straight through the dross on MTV. They were innovative and gratifyingly out of place. In a program of other rock videos, they looked as if Robert Wilson, en route to Einstein on the Beach, had opened the wrong studio door and stumbled onto Soul Train...
...owns the Discosymas record store in Jackson Heights. He has a separate section for the music of each Latin American country. Folk ballads are the best sellers. "They like to reminisce a lot," explains Saltos of his customers. Peruvian Hayly Rivera, now a naturalized American, is scornful of the "ghetto mentality" of many of her fellow Hispanics. "Their heart is back home. I hear too many people around here saying 'I don't like this, I don't like that.' " Rivera hears them complaining in Spanish, which riles her all the more. "They can't communicate. If they...
Many historians disagree. Hispanics, says Sheldon Maram, a professor of history at California State University at Fullerton, "are moving at about the same level of acculturation as the Poles and Italians earlier in the century. Once they've made it, they tend to move out of the ghetto and melt into the rest of society." Asians often have it easier because they come from urban middle-class backgrounds. "They are the most highly skilled of any immigrant group our country has ever had," says Kevin McCarthy, a demographer at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif...
...first-generation Italian. He was the youngest of six boys. My grandparents came from Italy on the boat. They went to Pennsylvania, a town right outside of Pittsburgh, because the steel mills are there and there was a lot of work. They lived in sort of an Italian ghetto-type neighborhood, and my grandfather got a job in a steel mill. My grandmother and grandfather spoke no English at all. They are dead now, but when I was a little girl I would see them all the time. They weren't very educated, and I think in a way they...