Word: ghettoese
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Purists might complain that Hester Street presents an inaccurate picture of New York Jewish ghettoes at the turn of the century. This is true, but immaterial. According to this film, no one lived in squalor, and the worst aspect of the sweatshops was an occasional snide comment from the boss...
What Banfield has created through his logic of individualism is a rationale for the cancellation of all types of assistance programs by saying "do it yourself." Thus instead of federal funds tagged for specific ills of the poor we get Nixonian revenue sharing where the money goes directly to the...
34 Who told an NAACP convention in 1963: "There are no ghettoes in Chicago"?
Small as it is, there is something for everyone in New Jersey, including some things nobody really wants. The state possesses some of the finest beaches on the Atlantic coast, and one of the most dismal lunar landscapes of swamp, industrial waste, and smelly oil refineries to be found in...
Ghettoes will not disappear if he words is abolished. Not will minorities. If language is,in the end, a reflection of the society in which it is used--and all three of these writers agree at some point in their essays that such is the case--then no amount of...