Word: hispanicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chicago's Humboldt Park is a dangerous area, but last March Blanca Ibarra and her family felt safe enough to troop to a photo studio near the park. It was Ibarra's 15th birthday, and the family wanted to record the event. Two jittery gang members, under the impression that...
The West Coast has been hardest hit, particularly the Los Angeles area. Says Detective John Clark: "We're keeping a lid on it, but that's about all." There are 422 gangs reported in the county, and they "are putting communities over the barrel of a gun," says Tom Garrison...
! Since the turn of the decade, TIME has closely followed the newest wave of immigrants to America and the ways in which they are changing our nation. A 1981 cover story described the pervasive Hispanic influence in South Florida, and another in 1983 dealt with the new mix of ethnic...
At first bewilderment and loneliness mark immigrant women's lives. "You often see Hispanic men sitting in a bar at night or playing dominoes outside. Women don't have that," says Gail Lerner, an administrative officer for the World Council of Churches. "Isolation is great. The extended family, the neighbors...
Among many blacks in Miami, there is similar resentment of the way Cuban immigrants have moved into small businesses. In 1960 blacks owned 25% of the gas stations in Dade County. By 1979 they had only 9%, while the percentage of Hispanic-owned stations grew from 12% to 48%. The...