Word: chicano
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stereotypical Harvard law professor. Only 34 years old, Lopez is an active advisor to the Los Angeles Chicano community on legal matters, and is outspoken in his criticism of legal education...
...stereotypical Harvard law professor. Only 34 years old, Lopez is an active advisor to the Los Angeles Chicano community on legal matters, and is outspoken in his criticism of legal education...
...Like them, he is scheduled to teach a course on civil rights Like them, he is not interested in a permanent position at Harvard, And like them, he will be visiting a school with two minority professors on a faculty of 72 and a vocal minority student organization. The Chicano professor from UCLA faces a pressured atmosphere at the Law School, from which he graduated nine years...
...stacked against black defendants, especially in the "death belt" of the South. Some of the racism has been wrung out. Yet clear bias remains, much attributable to prosecutorial choices. A recent study of homicide cases in Houston's Harris County is troubling. In cases where a black or Chicano had killed a white, 65% of defendants were tried for capital murder; only 25% of whites who killed a black or Chicano faced the death penalty. "I don't think it's overt racism," says University of Texas...
After several minutes, student leaders were allowed into the conference room. When Ron Balestrien, president of the Graduate Student Council, asked questions regarding the fate of Ethnic studies programs, at UCR, or why Black and Chicano Studies are being scheduled for dismantlement. Warren declined to comment...