Word: ghettoes
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...felt for months or even years, realtors and landlords stand to make some very big money from a single city council rollcall. A lot more tenants stand to lose their homes. And the city stands to change dramatically--from an exciting, traditional community into a dull upper-class professional ghetto...
...sensitive, almost stream-of-consciousness journeys into a character's past. In them Halberstam examines this book's dominant sub-text, race. Basketball today is a Black game played (in the pros) mostly by Blacks. Halberstam's discussion of the use of basketball as a route out of the ghetto is familiar to anyone interested in the sport, but he tells it with grace. More important are his examples of how race--not racism, exactly--still shapes the professional game: Owners who demand at least a few white players; a good white who commands more pay than a good Black...
There are many "white folks" completely removed from the ghetto scene who might infer that the story of Baby Love depicts a typical inner-city black youth. Baby Love represents only an extreme example of what the area is capable of producing. This article does great injustice to the majority of black and Hispanic youngsters who are simply good kids, doing their best to succeed in a world in which the cards are stacked against them. Richard Bobrick Paterson...
THIS IS DOZENS, a vicious, angry, game rooted in the Black ghetto culture of our country, a ritual in which participants vent physical hostility through a series of rhymes and insults. When we first meet the young woman portrayed in Christine Dall and Randall Conrad's The Dozens, she is yelling at a correctional officer, playing the game, sharpening the instincts that serve her as well in the outside world as they do in prison...
...sign that Reagan means business, the voluntarism project at the White House has been placed under the supervision of one of his top aides, Michael Deaver. Deaver foresees a two-pronged effort: first, to promote successful private-sector models of social service. Reagan cited a Philadelphia ghetto shelter for 500 street youths founded by David and Falaka Fattah. In spite of losing some federal funding, Falaka Fattah is resolute: "We didn't start with Government money. We're going on." The Administration further intends to help eliminate any bureaucratic impediments to voluntarism. As Reagan noted in last week...