Word: chicanos
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...easy to criticize his work as politically irresponsible, and Chicano and gay rights activists in particular have denounced him for refusing to speak "for" them. But Rodriguez remains responsible not to a political reality but to the more intractable reality of the individual. He insists that he is more than simply a collection of labels, and in doing so challenges us to think about the complexities of human existence. His own reality proves disturbing, fascinating material...
...years, standardized test-takers have been forced to choose among Hispanic, Latino, Puerto Rican, Chicano, Cuban, South American or various combinations of similar rubrics. The U.S. Census Bureau officially used "Hispanic" as a category in 1980. If the bureau had called the group "Latinos," would it really have ramifications for the community's political status...
Harvard trails a number of other institutions in the area of ethnic studies. Yale has interdisciplinary majors in Chicano studies and Asian-American studies...
Berkeley offers graduate and undergraduate degrees in ethnic, Asian-American, Chicano and Native American studies. African-American studies is a separate department. The ethnic studies major is a combination of at least three ethnic focuses...
Fifty-one of those are what the office calls "underrepresented" minority groups: Black, Chicano, Native American or Puerto Rican...