Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson said he plans to continue his work on issues of urban inequality, race and class, in addition to setting up research sites in Boston similar to ones he has in Chicago...
Also, Wilson said he hopes to develop a course in cross-cultural studies of urban inequality, focusing on differences between how the United States and Europe deal with urban problems...
...Irish Catholics did when they first arrived, or worked and languished in worse conditions. Irish considered themselves the blacks of Europe and black freedmen viewed themselves, according to some literature of the day, comfortably superior in position to that of the Irishman. Somewhere in the crucible of New England urban labor competition, the Irish forged a new white identity for themselves to ensure their place next to native born whites...
...qualify as needy, one's annual income must be no more than $32,150 per year, a figure calculated using guidelines established by the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...history alongside such crossover classics as Gershwin's Concerto in F, Igor Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto and Aaron Copland's clarinet concerto. "Dana Suesse was a marvelous pianist," says Mintun, who wrote the liner notes for Pearl's Suesse album. "Her piano solos painted vivid tonal pictures of exciting urban life. You hear little hints of Debussy or Ravel in her work, yet you also hear the elements of something new in that period that they called jazz...