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When A. JERROLD PERENCHIO, an Italian-American Republican, poured $1.5 million into fighting California's anti-bilingual-education initiative two months ago, it seemed an obvious ploy: Perenchio, as head of Univision, the major Spanish-language TV network, was seeking to curry favor with his audience. But Perenchio wasn't alone. Millions of dollars are now being poured into pro-Latino causes by such corporations as AT&T, GTE, Miller Brewing and Kaiser Permanente. One grass-roots group, the Southwest Voter Registration Project, has received a $500,000 pledge from State Farm Insurance (to be paid over five years...
...Neill won Cambridge and Somerville, and with the surprise backing of a prominent Italian-American family, split Boston with LoPresti...
...simmering racial tensions. More recently, one of Giuliani's Jewish political allies published a letter in a Jewish newspaper describing a Messinger mayoralty as an utter nightmare. While Giuliani distanced himself from this attack, he later implied that Messinger (who is Jewish) does not care about the city's Italian-American and Roman Catholic communities because she did not attend the Columbus Day Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral and dropped out of the city's holiday parade early (comments for which he later apologized...
BOSTON--Between the pasta breakfast, the Old World music and the heavy concentration of state politicians, last Sunday's political roast at Joe Tecce's restaurant in the North End of Boston was at the heart of local Italian-American culture...
Other highlights of the reading list: "Intimacy, labor and class: Ideologies of feminine sexuality in the Punk slam dance;" "Guido: Fashioning an Italian-American Youth Style;" and "Jocks and Freaks: The symbolic structure of the expression of social interaction among American high school students...