Hip-hop started out in New York, adopting former funk and soul grooves styles and beats. ... Artists were out to share these experiences, while also serving as messengers of the public who kept the government in check. [8][9] This lack of representation was due to the fact that topics of gangsters, ghettos, violence, drug dealers, and misogyny were thought by owners of major record labels to attract a wealthy, suburban, white, teenage audience. ... Contrary to narrow stereotypes of hip-hop clothing that the media associates with ghetto, rappers have utilized quite a variety of styles and out...

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Jon Rice's The World of the Illinois Panthers and Johanna Fernandez's Between Social Service Reform and Revolutionary Politics: The Young Lords, Late Sixties Radicalism, and Community Organizing in New York City discuss the mobilization of grassroots to find solutions to the ills that plagued the black community. The Illinois Black Panther Party worked toward dealing with issues that negatively affected Chicago's West Side ghetto, "The Illinois Black Panther Party was an expression of the spirit of grassroots empowerment that had rid the South of de facto segregation." ... Dur...

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In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. ... The movement centered in the vast black ghetto of Harlem, in New York City, where aspiring black artists, writers, and musicians gathered, sharing their experiences and provided encouragement to each other. ... The Great Depression caused the Harlem group of writers and entertainers to scatter; many were forced to leave New York or to take other jobs to tide them over the hard times....

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This competition has led the minorities living in such bad neighborhoods, such as the streets of Spanish Harlem, to search for respect and dignity while the American Society is doing the opposite, segregating and separating them from the rest of the society causing ghettoization to take place. ... The amount of Puerto Ricans that immigrated to New York from Puerto Rico was overwhelming. ... New York City compared to East Harlem is distinct even though it is part of New York. East Harlem throughout history has been known to be as one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York. ... The condit...

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When Kozol asked the students of Rye, New York whether racial integration should be put into effect for their school, one student replied, "How could it be a benefit to us?... The school environment, parents, teachers, and culture of the society all influence the behaviors and ideologies of the students of Rye, New York. ... Louis get pregnant and drop out of high school is not because they are incompetent to learn or do not want to succeed, it is because "there's not much for [them] in the public school", and "a diploma from a ghetto high school doesn't count for...

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The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. ... As more and more educated and socially conscious blacks settled in New York's neighborhood of Harlem, it developed into the political and cultural center of black America. "In the history of New York, the significance of the name Harlem has changed from Dutch to Irish to Jewish to Negro (Johnson, 1925)."" ... Driven by the charismatic zeal of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican who had migrated to New York, captured the grass-roots ...

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My conception of religious liberty was vague when I was younger, but as I got older and I became aware of the world around me, religious liberty has been a topic that everyone has been discussing - not only privately but also in public and especially in the papers. I used to be an uninformed protest...

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Some move to ethnic pockets, such as New York City's Chinatown or Miami's Little Havana, where Chinese and Spanish respectively are sometimes more common than English" (Redemske 1 ). ... "At present rates, mass immigration reinforces ethnic subcultures, reducing the incentives of newcomers to learn English; and extends the life of linguistic ghettos that might otherwise be melded into the great American mainstream" (Buchanan 1). ...

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The money gained through the lawlessness and violence against the native Americans in the western fur trade was used for real estate in New York, where easily corrupted officials helped Astor become one America's first and greatest slumlords, taking money away from poor immigrants for the privilege of living in the vilest of tenement housing. ... They had become folk heroes and role models for the kids in the Italian ghettos, many of which were to seek their own places in this new society. ...

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A true Anarchist: The Life of Emma Goldman Introduction To explain how Anarchism influenced everyday life for Jews in Amerika and especially the citizens of New York's Lower East Side, the ideas and visions of Anarchism's leaders must be thoroughly analyzed. ... This situation, being caught between two cultures - the Jewish and the Russian, the ghetto and the outside - helped her realize very early that rules and laws are often simply accepted, even though they may be contrary and senseless. ... Chicago and New York, especially the lower East Side became centers of the mor...

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Although Asians and Asian Americans have been present on American television screens for decades, [1] few television series have featured Asian or Asian Americans in starring roles. Kung Fu (Warner Bros, ABC, 1972-1975), starring David Carradine as Kwai-Chang Caine, featured a white American actor as a bi-racial Shaolin priest in the Old West. Originally conceived as a vehicle for martial arts adept Bruce Lee, the series went to an actor with little physical ability, but with a knack for embodying a Hippie pacifism along with a reluctant, but devastating aggression On the lam from the la...

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We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. ... We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. ...

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In New York minorities are often the ones stopped and questioned for no reason other than the thought that they looked "suspicious". ... They believe African American males from the ghetto are the wrong doers in this country and that is a result of the slave trade because, as mentioned earlier, the mental illness of racism has managed to trickle down over the generations. ...

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The passage above appeared under the imprint of Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, whose release of Slander with a substantial marketing budget and nationwide promotion marked Coulter's escape from the right-wing ghetto of Regnery Publishing. ... The New York Times gave it to cultural critic Janet Maslin, who mildly criticized its "insult slinging- and "sarcastic overkill- but was too awed by its thirty-six pages of footnotes to determine whether any of them were accurate. ...

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Race riots have occurred in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, and Chicago. Black and Hispanic people live in urban ghettos that resemble areas of the Third World in terms of their poverty and degradation. ...

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