Word: chicanos
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...Davis admissions record prior to establishing the special program supports Lowrey's testimony. The Medical School opened in 1968, and during the two years in which the school had no special program, only three minority students--two blacks and one chicano--were admitted...
...America's social conscience instead of reading for Gov 30. Paco played his role to the hilt, all Viva Zapata and Man of La Mancha and Impossible Dream--socialism, cliches and stereotypes and fiery speeches like he'd seen out in California. He picked his favorite target, the other Chicano on the floor--a rich kid from L.A. whose father owned a big factory that built tanks and had put him on the company's board of directors so he could deduct his flights back home. One time Paco heard the rich kid had gotten into a special seminar...
Paco always knew it was the stereotypes that matter--like the fiery Chicano stereotype that had taken out of the migrant's school outside of San Francisco and had put him in the gringo school outside of Beacon Hill. But gradually that year he understood it was that other stereotype, that Harvard-Fly-Club-air-of-casual-scholarship phantom that was going to take him even further in the gringo world as soon as he could climb out of the long black robe on Commencement. Hell, he figured, there's Ropes and Gray and Rose Guthrie and Alexander...
Besides, by the time he went back to California for the holidays, Paco had learned something else. He learned that there were an awful lot of pretty young ladies who had gone to prep schools along with all the squash players, and that the young ladies found fiery Chicano revolutionaries interesting. Interesting as long as they weren't really revolutionaries, of course, but only looked fiery enough to be. Interesting enough to take skiing during reading period and into Boston for the theater and drinks on the weekend. Interesting enough to argue over with their friends who had gone...
...long ago recognized an irrational quirk in my point of view regarding Chicano rock groups that play what can be loosely labelled barrio or Chicano rock. My desire to see these bands make the big time overwhelms my attempts to remain objective and discriminating. I may not particularly enjoy the repertoire of groups such as Mal and El Chicano, yet I cannot deny a certain disappointment at watching them score one or two big hits and then promptly fade from the rock music limelight. But the ethnic background of Santana's members is only one of their selling points...