Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans live in the suburbs. Yet suburbia is where nearly 80% of the nation's new jobs are. During the 1960s, industries increasingly settled there, lured by the cheap land, low taxes, pleasant environment. But the blue-collar jobs they create remain inaccessible to blacks trapped in the inner cities. When the National Bureau of Standards left Washington to relocate in Gaithersburg, Md., for example, the total number of employees increased by 125. But black employment decreased by 73; blacks could not afford suburban housing and the commute took up to two hours each...
There are ways to resolve this dilemma. Suburbanites often advocate improving the transportation system between urban ghetto and suburban industry, thus keeping the blacks in the cities. Some politicians-and many blacks-favor moving industry back to the inner cities. Others hope to build integrated new towns either by starting from scratch in the country, or else by redeveloping vast areas of existing cities. But probably the most practical and far-reaching solution is to open the suburbs to urban blacks...
...that suburban living imposes on the central city. Such a regional tax, he argues, would eliminate the need of local communities to protect real estate and property tax values and therefore would do much to open up suburban land, money and jobs. "There is no chance to rebuild the inner cities," he says, "unless we can use the resources of the suburbs...
Since the beginning of the nation, white Americans have suffered from a deep inner uncertainty as to who they really are. One of the ways that has been used to simplify the answer has been to seize upon the presence of black Americans and use them as a marker, a symbol of limits, a metaphor for the "outsider." Many whites could look at the social position of blacks and feel that color formed an easy and reliable gauge for determining to what extent one was or was not American. Perhaps that is why one of the first epithets that many...
...tough Roxbury ghetto. At 28 he is a painter whom few in Boston can ignore, since his huge, bright Black Power murals glare from the sides of buildings that people pass by every day. Chandler's avowed intent is to "create a black museum in the inner city." His scorn for the white art world is complete. "Frank Stella? So much crap! It's decorative and costs lots of money and doesn't say anything. Earthworks? What the hell does it mean to black people if you get bulldozers and dig holes in the ground? All this...