Word: hispanicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The results in Chicago reflected the racial divisions evident in the campaign. Across the city, the turnout was a record: almost 80% of those registered cast ballots. Washington carried many black wards by more than 95% of the vote. In the 24th Ward on the heavily black West Side, for...
Many of the building's tenants are Haitian or Hispanic who speak little English, and several city councilor expressed concern that possible racial discrimination or lack of communication were the causes of the evictions.
The Captain steers his sleek black '83 Cadillac into the neighborhood known as Alphabet Town on Manhattan's Lower East Side. This menacing tangle of burned-out buildings, clammy tenements and garbage-strewn vacant lots is one of the country's most notorious drug marketplaces. Dealers crowd...
Naturally, Black New Yorkers see the propping up of a white bureaucrat over a qualified Black educator as a slap in the face, particularly because two-thirds of the school population is Black and Hispanic. Yet in a show of hypocrisy best described as Orwellian, Koch and his ever-faithful...
Latin America has seldom been short of renowned poets, notably Peru's César Vallejo and Chile's Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, both of whom won Nobel Prizes. But in the 1960s, North America began to encounter the names of novelists and essayists who would be...