Word: ghettoes
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...This leads me to several brief comments about requirements of effective Black leadership in a period where the Afro-American elites or bourgeoisie are now national elites, not ghetto elites...
...films currently being shown--some of which have won national and regional awards--focus on racial prejudice among light and dark-skinned Blacks, poverty in a ghetto, and sexism and racism among Black women comedians...
...Lough Derg, Donegal, the long poem describes two journeys, one a pilgrimage of prayer, the other a search for self. That quest, and the thoughts it inspires, brings as much pain as enlightenment. In a typical passage, Heaney, who grew up in Northern Ireland, bitterly remembers the Catholic ghetto, and "how quick I was to know my place." In another, he faces the ghost of his cousin Colum, killed in the sectarian violence. "You confused evasion and artistic tact," the murdered man tells him. "The Protestant who shot me through the head/ I accuse directly, but indirectly...
...world of these stories. Shacochis shows a keen awareness of lush disparities. He evokes the allure of a village marketplace, "the air luscious with the smells of spices, of frying coconut oil and garlic and cumin, the scents of frangipani and lime." The counterimage appears in a neighborhood of ghetto shanties, where everything "smelled like rotting fruit and kerosene, urine and garlic." In Hunger, a lone white works alongside a team of black fishermen; near the end of their labors, they all retire to a deserted beach for an extended evening feast. The outsider marvels at the smells that begin...
...familiar and oddly endearing routine: top Whitey. All of white America is a classroom for Fast Eddie's crash course in street smarts and larcenous one-upmanship. And everyone loves it, in the movie and in the audience, because Murphy's jive is blessedly free of malice. Under the ghetto gutter talk lurks a sassy little boy, outfoxing the grownups at a game he has been practicing all his life. He % is a Little Rascal playing Dirty Harry, and winning...