Word: hispanicism
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A maelstrom of national media descended upon Cambridge last fall, when the court of public opinion portrayed the murder trial of Alexander Pring-Wilson as a case in which a rich, white Harvard graduate student was pitted against a poor, Hispanic local teen.
For the victim’s family, the storyline of an white man receiving preferential treatment over a poor Hispanic was not fantasy.
“I have a lot of anger [at] society’s views and stereotypes of a young Hispanic man,” said Damaris Colono, sister of the victim, to the judge at sentencing. “Just because you’re raised a rich white...
“I think race was more of an issue because there was more class differentiations than, I would say, today,” she says. “For example, my daughter is at Harvard today. She can kind of fit in anywhere there. So the fact that...
At the same time, budget problems have forced school boards across the U.S. to cut back on "unnecessary" programs like art, music and physical education, while pressure from parents to raise academic standards has in many places squeezed even recess from the curriculum. Only 56% of U.S. high school students...