Word: chicano
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coming! The Cubans are coming! That is the battle cry these days of angry Mexican Americans in the Los Angeles area. The target of their wrath: local TV station KVEA, an affiliate of Telemundo, the Spanish-language television network that hit the airwaves two years ago. Although West Coast Chicanos were at first delighted to tune into broadcasts in their own language, some gradually became alarmed at what they call the "Cubanization" of KVEA, which picks up much of its programming from Telemundo's operations center near Miami. "The programming does not reflect the linguistic, cultural and ethnic communities...
...fall of 1990, Juan Bruce-Novoa, a professor from Trinity University, will teach a survey course in Chicano literature and a course on methods of research on the Chicano novel...
Bruce-Novoa, the first scholar who will come to Harvard under the new program, started the Chicano Studies program at Yale in the early '70s, and he says he fought the administration for several years before they would establish a permanent program with faculty and financial support...
Assistant Professor of Romance Languages and Literature Efrain Kristal, who signed the original student proposal for a Chicano Studies visiting professorship, says he thinks students should avoid calls for an independent program...
...regardless of how the debate over Chicano studies is played out at Harvard, it is clear that the academic community has started paying heed to those who investigate various ethnic experiences...