Word: descent
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Because he is of both Spanish and Native American descent, Hernandez said paying homage to ancestors is a "synthesis of the old and new world...
...course attracted 17 graduate students and 29 undergraduates, about 25 percent of whom are of Native American descent...
Pherinos, who hails from a family with an African-American mother and a father of Jewish and Greek descent, explained some of the challenges facing students who also find themselves in his shoes...
...Look at Harvard," he said. "Among students of African descent, there's quite a disproportionately large amount of the student population who are students of mixed descent...
...feel that, being of Italian-American descent, all the Italian and Italian-Americans who live in Cambridge are proud of Columbus for discovering America," he says. "I feel that [Columbus Day] is quite important because it puts the spotlight on Italian-Americans in America, of which there are 20 million...