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Article: The evolving civil rights movement: old civil rights and new immigration.
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- January 1, 1994
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The political rhetoric of civil rights--its ideology, iconography, and martyrology--has always kept the stirring black struggle for equality on center stage. At the same time, this rhetoric has treated the immigrant's drama as peripheral, rather like Shakespeare's (not Stoppard's) treatment of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. There are signs, however, that the audience's attention has begun to wander, diverted by the performances of immigrant groups on other stages. These developments make the relationship between civil rights and immigration ripe for reexamination.
The traditional civil rights coalition--black, Jewish, and labor groups supported by liberal media, ...