Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second highest of any American core city. When I lived in Atlanta, at the height of the struggle, the interests of poor black people and well-off black people seemed identical. To some extent, their interests still coincide. But a poor black person living in a crumbling slum may have good reason to feel that triumphs of well-off black people have nothing to do with his life. The well- off black people, after all, have their own suburbs...
Especially since they keep sidling up to promising comic ideas. The incognito Prince meets the street paupers, who immediately steal his vanload of Vuitton luggage. The Prince discovers that even heaps of living cannot convert a slum apartment into a palace. The Prince takes a job as janitor in a fast-food joint and learns that good manners, noble bearing and even heroic action cannot overcome class distinctions. He tries to woo an uncommon commoner (played brightly by Newcomer Shari Headley) without revealing his identity, and encounters resistance from her father, who, since he is Akeem's boss, cannot help...
...crack," says Frances Pitts, chief judge of the juvenile courts in Wayne County, Mich. "Most aren't running around with guns. Most aren't killing people. Most are doing very well -- against great odds." These are the youngsters who fit Jesse Jackson's words: "You were born in the slum, but the slum wasn't born...
...when your roads lead way off the beaten track. Morris is not one for a luxury cruise. Instead she opts for danger and discomfort. Nothing to Declare is a memoir of her travels in Central America, which she explores in the tradition of truth through squalor, using a Mexican slum as a base camp. Despite occasional lapses into over- studied eloquence, she is a fascinating guide, with an eye for the brutal, the garish, the silly and bizarre. At a Mayan market in the Yucatan, Morris is tempted by giant beetles being sold as pets. "They were dressed as cowboys...
Bruce S. Miller '90, one of four Harvard students who went on the service project last year, agrees. He says he found his stay in the Mexico City slum very disagreeable but in retrospect, he felt the project was a worthwhile experience...