Word: chicanos
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...racial tension seethes close to the town's tranquil surface. Thousands of migrant farm workers, mostly Chicano, are left unemployed each winter because it sometimes gets too cold to grow the apples and lettuce they pick for a living Chicano-Anglo animosity frequently bubbles over into violence, and even murder. For its size, the city has one of the highest crime rates in the country...
About 60 people turned out for the three hour conference, sponsored by the Harvard Foundation, which featured 13 presentation by administrators and students, including members of Black. Asian-American, Chicano, and Native American groups...
...position on this issue represents an underlying University attitude that discourages minorities from asserting their identifies as members of a Third World community. "Third World events during freshman week ate important to us, but only as part of a larger problem," Maria G. Carmona '84, a member of the Chicano group RAZA, said yesterday...
Sanchez says he chose Stanford--where he received his Masters in History last year--because of the facilities for doing Chicano research. At Stanford, Sanchez says he has found many role models including his advisor, who is "one of the best Chicano historians around." Because of the jobs limitations in the East, Sanchez says he plans to stay in California after he receives his PhD to work with the Chicano community from an academic standpoint...
Minority organizations within the College are strong, and Sanchez feels that participation in ethnically related activities helps students "keep a perspective on this place." He adds his dancing with a Mexican folk dancing group called Ballet Folklarico de Aztlan is one way he keeps abreast of the Chicano community at Harvard...