Word: chicano
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...director and students, of the Harvard Foundation have also successfully petitioned the deans of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences [FAS] for several new Ethnic Studies courses in the curriculum (including Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century, Asian-American Culture and history and Chicano Politics). In an effort to help increase the number of minority faculty of Puerto Rican, Mexican-American, Asian-American, African-American and Native American Indian backgrounds, the students and faculty of the Harvard Foundation have collected the resumes of dozens of professors across the nation, presented them to the Faculty and secured the appointment of numerous...
...evading engagement in the real world. Sect A borrows the techniques of Republican attack politics to show that if Sect B has its way, the study of Milton and Titian will be replaced by indoctrination programs in the works of obscure Third World authors and West Coast Chicano subway muralists, and the pillars of learning will forthwith collapse. Meanwhile, Sect B is so stuck in the complaint mode that it can't mount a satisfactory defense, since it has burned most of its bridges to the culture at large...
Last year it was Mafia movies. Next year comes a grittier crop of organized- crime films focused on Chicano street gangs in L.A. Films about Chinatown mobs like the Ghost Shadows can't be far behind. Keep your head down...
...Stockton-born "prune picker," as native Californians are called, recalls having real misgivings when the "coloreds" first came to town during World War II. Today he and Gladys call the black family next door the best neighbors they've ever had. They've become such friends with their Chicano gardener that they go to Las Vegas with him and his family. And they admire the brilliant 15-year-old Vietnamese girl who baby-sits around the corner and plans to attend Harvard or Stanford. They are persuaded that Californians are, in fact, more tolerant than most Americans. It's probably...
...interested in alienating the audience. I believe in the system. I'm acutely conscious of the business in this town and how I organize my career. As an actor you must have self-knowledge and an understanding of your limits. I know I can't play a Chicano gang leader, but I could play Queen Victoria. I'm also a structure hound. If the choices are too great, I'm paralyzed...