Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However it seems that Cachan is not willing to grant the same courtesy he demands for Latino students to their white peers, Several times, he uses the term "Anglo" to refer to all white Americans...
...Anglo" is a ethnic-specific term referring only to people of English descent. It excludes people of Irish, Italian, German, Greek, and other European ancestries. Indiscriminately calling white Americans "Anglo" is equivalent to calling all Latino "Mexican" or all Asian-Americans "Chinese." No one would question that such labels would be inaccurate and inadequate, and perhaps even racist...
...seems that perhaps the prevalence of the word "Anglo" among Latin American students and scholarship is due to the need to find some catch all term for the many white ethnic groups that constitute the white America population. I encourage everyone to reread Cachan's editorial to understand why this is ridiculous and dangerous...
...critic Lionel Trilling. In its pages, tiresome Marxist posturing coexisted with the best of literary modernism; the editors, Macdonald perhaps most of all, believed that politics was of no consequence when it came to high art. Thus PR printed short stories by Kafka and poetry and essays by Anglo-Catholic royalist T.S. Eliot...
...immigration was largely white, Cubans were less likely to encounter racial barriers and more likely to assimilate with American society. The Cuban community is politically far to the right of the Puerto Rican and Chicano communities not only because of its relative wealth (still below that of the average Anglo-American), but because of the traumatic reaction brought on by the Revolution and exile...