Word: chicanos
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This is a language that Harvard speaks particularly badly. We like diversity as long as it relates to third world countries or oppressed sexual subcultures; we take mediocre artistic efforts seriously when they represent the work of Chicano immigrants in California, or spunky lesbians in lower Manhattan. But when it comes to the mediocre art that millions of Americans love, in Baton Rouge and Nashville and Denver and all the other places that Garth Brooks sings about, we roll our eyes and go back to downloading German techno...
Hernandez said that RAZA, an organization of Chicano students, will be discussing the issue of a Latino studies program in the future...
Continuing its push for ethnic studies, the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations hosted a lecturer on Chicano Studies yesterday who criticized Harvard’s lack of an ethnic studies program as “untenable...
Foundation Director S. Allen Counter introduced Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez, professor of Chicano Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, by stressing the need for an ethnic studies program at Harvard...
...Gould. After all, students at UMass Boston witnessed the installation of five uncontested pieces that have already elevated UMass in the contemporary art world. "Huru" was the only massive work on public grounds; the other pieces were set up within the university's bounds. "Steelworker," a figurative piece by Chicano artist Luis Jimenez, stands proudly in a Statue-of-Liberty-esque pose over the plaza. Though intended as a symbol of humanity against the bleak brick, "Steelworker" doesn't quite appeal to some beholders. Student Jeff Barret believes that the piece is "in keeping with the overall brutalist, industrial theme...