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Novak wants a coalition of minority whites and blacks based on equal ethnicity for all. Others disagree. Harvard Sociologist Orlando Patterson, himself black, thinks ethnicity was "possibly the only way blacks could mobilize" but sees white ethnicity, its successor, as an alarming "symptom of fragmentation" in society, and he believes it is tacitly or potentially antiblack. Some white minority groups would actually rather be all-American than be seen as a separate ethnic group. Carlos Almeida, whose Portuguese Union of the State of California pushed through the Bay Area bilingual program, says that all Americans should learn English...
Women are committing mostly petty offenses−only one in six homicides is attributed to a woman−but criminologists expect them to work their way up (or down) the ladder. Sociologist Francis lanni of Columbia University believes this trend is the "criminal analogue of the women's liberation movement. As in business, politics and education, there will be equal opportunities in crime. You can't have Bella Abzugs without Bonnie Parkers...
University of Chicago Sociologist James S. Coleman has become celebrated over the past decade for studies that first supported and then opposed the use of busing to integrate schools. Last week he emerged with a proposal somewhere in between...
...study was compiled by Chicago's National Opinion Research Center under Father Andrew M. Greeley, a priest who is a prominent sociologist. His researchers took a "composite sample" of 18,000 households, put together from twelve national surveys of ethnic and religious groups. (Nonwhites and Spanish-speaking Americans were not included because they have already been extensively studied...
Director Gordy arranged his debut by talking the producer of Mahogany -one Berry Gordy-into firing Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) ten days after shooting began. Richardson, complained Producer-Critic-Sociologist Gordy, was "losing all the subtleties" of ghetto life and humor. The not-so-sub-tleties were supplied-at inflationary prices. Did Ross, doubling as her own clothes designer, require more yard goods and seamstresses to realize her visions? She got them. Did the film maker require an outdoor theater for a few atmospheric shots? He hired the 17th century theater at Spoleto for a week and transported the whole...