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There's a long history of a particular pleasure in consuming the ideas of black-ghetto-excess dysfunction. It used to not be ghettoized in setting because black people weren't always urban people, but the same images can be found in American history for centuries. So this idea that a certain kind of sexual deviance or violent behavior defines black culture has had a huge market in commercial mainstream culture for at least 200 years. Also, sexist images, which hip-hop has a lot of, seem to do very well across the cultural spectrum. So sexuality and sexual domination...
...there are differences. American cities are typified by much greater urban sprawl than that seen in Europe. "If you take population loss and job losses, the American cities have gone through very dramatic shrinkage and vastly greater suburban expansion," says Anne Power, professor of social policy at the LSE, and one of the guide's authors. With public funding for redevelopment is often less available in the U.S., "the result," says Katz, is "weaker city cores [and] the rise of an exit ramp economy. We need a 180-degree turn in federal and state policies...
...Meyer's best-selling series (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn) is captivating and original, with an audience that goes far beyond pubescent girls. It would be unfortunate if those who have not yet read the books were discouraged from doing so by a poor movie adaptation. Bree Urban, SEATTLE...
...mission statement, works to “eliminate educational inequality by enlisting our nations most promising future leaders in the effort.”TFA trains and oversees a core of high-achieving recent college graduates to work as public school teachers in under-served rural and urban districts for a minimum of two years. Participants have the option of receiving funding for graduate degrees in education while they are teaching.The organization was founded by Wendy Kopp in 1990, who conceived of the idea in the undergraduate thesis she wrote at Princeton in 1989. “As I moved...
...York, in terms of issues and political affiliation, is a state divided: the interests of the more rural, conservative voters in the New York State Thruway corridor (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany) are often opposed to those of the urban, liberal voters in the New York City area. Although Obama won the state with 62% of the vote, most upstate counties gave him only 45%-55%, while Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx gave him 80%-90%. "The whole Caroline Kennedy thing is not a tip of the hat to upstate," says Joshua Dyck, an assistant professor of political science...