Word: chicanos
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...bitter and sometimes violent struggle that dragged on for more than a decade, Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Union battled the Teamsters in what the Chicano leader called an "all-out war" to organize workers in California's vineyards and truck farms. Last week, before television cameras, the two unions signed a peace treaty that gives the field hands to the U.F.W., and the canners, packers and farm-truck drivers to the Teamsters. The unlikely allies pledged to honor each other's picket lines, support each other's organizing efforts and cooperate in seeking legislation...
...seemed to have everything going for him. Playing a wisecracking Chicano hustler in an East Los Angeles garage, he starred in NBC's three-year-old hit series Chico and the Man. He had just signed a multiyear $1 million contract with Las Vegas' Caesars Palace. He was negotiating film deals with Warner's and Universal. He had filled in for Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show; more such appearances were in the works. And at the age of 22, he attained one of the highest status roles in show business when he performed for the incoming...
...amusing paradox is the concern among Chicano students, a la the newly rich, with their news media and public image and their own stereotyping of themselves into roles of the oppressed. Yes, yes: Oppression! Repression! Fascism! Racism! I thought I'd left that behind in the Sixties and early Seventies...
Today's rhetoric is "representative Chicano population" and "Chicano studies" and "systematic neglect." Systematic neglect! I mean, why not just carry it all the way: demands for "representative Chicano population" among Nobel winners, among the Boston Brahmins, in Little Italy...
...that's not to say there aren't problems, bad ones. I've reported on the Chicano movement in the southwest on and off the last seven years, and the gains are slow and frustrating. Institutions, by their very nature, move slowly at best...