Word: hispanicization
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In New York City's Spanish Harlem, the highs come cheap. To create a "blunt," teenagers slice open a cigar and mix the tobacco with marijuana. To enhance the hit, they fashion "B-40s" by dipping the cigar in malt liquor. In Atlanta, police observed 100 teenagers and young adults...
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, as of June 1993: 236 officials named, 59 minorities, 25% (15% black, 7% Hispanic, 2% Asian, 1% Native American)
Changing demographics have also hit orchestras hard. As bastions of Dead White Male supremacy, they are, to some critics, politically incorrect targets whose Eurocentric offerings are out of harmony with the larger, more black- and Hispanic-influenced American culture. As the urban cores have changed color, downtown-based orchestras have...
It took the Voting Rights Act to suggest the possibility of a "good" gerrymander. The act's 1982 revision and related court rulings required states with histories of racial discrimination to draw up districts where minority candidates would have a viable chance of being elected. Resulting jurisdictions with built-in...
Inevitably, there are shortcomings in a two-hour play. While acknowledging Hispanic racial anger, Twilight wrongly implies that rioting and looting were committed almost entirely by blacks. The play depicts a "social explosion" by the law-abiding; in fact, many criminals saw an opportunity and took it. There are sympathetic...