Word: backgrounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much attention has recently been directed to the case of a Mexican American undergraduate, Jose L. Razo '89, who allegedly committed a series of armed robberies in California. Because of Razo's ethnic background, questions have been raised by the press and others as to the nature of the Mexican-American experience at Harvard. As the cultural, political, and social organization for Mexican-American students, Harvard-Radcliffe Raza feels obligated to respond...
Perhaps the most dangerous consequence of the Razo case is the tendency to generalize about the Harvard Mexican-American community based on the actions of a single individual. Whether or not Razo's alleged crimes were prompted by his socio-economic background and Harvard experience, drawing conclusions from this case about the minority community as a whole is unwarranted. In an attempt to account for Razo's actions, the situatuon of minority students at Harvard has been oversimplified and misinteroreted by both the national and campus media. For example, the mere title of the article, "Worlds in Collision" (The Harvard...
...recent interview, director John Hancock '61 and actor John Toles-Bey spoke about Weeds, their latest film. Soft-spoken Hancock chose his words carefully. Toles-Bey betrayed his background as a Venice Beach street performer with a quick and easy wit. Hancock was forthcoming on the subject of Weeds' portrayals of prisoners, women and Blacks, which some critics say enforce widely held stereotypes...
...research went into this and I felt that a Marxist analysis of the origins of crime was old hat and wrong. But the more I knew about it, the more I saw it was the case. You have to be uniquely disadvantaged in representation in court and social background to do much time...
...Whether or not Razo's alleged crimes wereprompted by his socioeconomic background andHarvard experience, drawing conclusions from thiscase about the minority community as a whole isunwarranted," the statement continued...