Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the course also looks at Native American, Christian and Jewish traditions, it emphasizes more the religious life of Asian-Americans--Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh and Jain--and the African-American and immigrant tradition of Islam...
...Palo Alto, a group of Hispanic parents went before the black-controlled school board last April to demand better bilingual education for their children. Before the meeting ended, police had to be called in to break up a fight between two participants: one a Latina and the other an African-American woman who had told her to "go back to Mexico...
Until now, the racial issue in public education has been sorting out the competing claims of white vs. African-American students: Who should be bused where? Or, how many dead white males should crowd the curriculum? But the newest racial flash point in schools in many parts of the U.S. pits Hispanic parents against African-American ones. The disputes like East Palo Alto's arise in part from frustration over how to spend the dwindling pot of cash in low-income districts. But they also reflect a jostling for power, as blacks who labored hard to earn a place...
...served as superintendent for the past 11 years; the five-person school board has just one Hispanic member; and only one of the district's school principals is Latino. Says David Giles, a lawyer who represents East Palo Alto's Latino parents in their battles with the district: "African Americans struggled for years to gain control of institutions here. To now see this community of immigrants come here and ask for some of the resources is threatening to them...
...school district's first Hispanic superintendent, Yvonne Gonzalez, resigned in September amid corruption charges brought by black employees; in response, Hispanic leaders demanded that the black associate superintendent who led the assault on Gonzalez step down too. In an episode in Washington early this year, Hispanic parents accused an African-American principal of taping the mouths of two Latino students who had allegedly cursed their teacher, and parading one of them through the school. The city's superintendent immediately pledged to hire more bilingual teachers and a full-time multicultural administrator. Hispanic-black tension also underlined last December's "ebonics...