Word: hispanicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leaving aside Coster's more brilliant moments on "Reach Up" and a couple of other songs, Festival is most assuredly a Carlos Santana record. Areas and congo drummer Raul Rekow supply some noteworthy percussion work on "Try a Little Harder," but otherwise maintain a very low profile. Bassist Pablo Tellez...
Some mobsters have tried to win Galante's favor by turning over their businesses to him at distress-sale prices. In one deal, he scooped up the betting and loan-shark rackets in Pennsylvania Station, which net at least $500,000 a year. Other mobsters, including some nominally under Dellacroce...
One of the hottest prevailing winds in the magazine business is the current trend toward special-interest publications. The newest subject of concentration is ethnic pride-magazines addressed to English-speaking Americans with foreign backgrounds. Last October saw the first issue of 1-AM (for ItalianAmerican), with items on Italian...
To non-Hispanic readers, Nuestro's ingenuous latino es bueno tone of voice may seem like ethnic overkill: the cover portrait of two strikingly handsome Latin faces is twice repeated inside the magazine, for example. Still, the magazine's diversity of sources and subjects should encourage a proud...
But the hunt for origins had been building for a decade. Leery of a homogeneity that could suffocate the individual, wary of quota systems that specified "Black, Hispanic, Other," Americans began to perceive themselves beyond the melting pot. They met their fears with a fever of ethnicity and a quest...