Word: hispanicism
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Boston's public schools have been a national symbol of racial conflict for more than a decade. But last week black, Hispanic and white members of the city's school committee united to elect Boston's first black school superintendent, Laval Wilson, 49, a no-nonsense administrator who has led...
Administration officials admit that they have been indulging at least one prejudice. "There is a conscious attempt," says Rees, "to avoid appointing people who will be on the bench only a few years." Typically, too, appointees are male and white. Only four of Reagan's judges are black, eleven Hispanic...
The theme of the tango is sexual entanglement and male domination of the female--Latin machismo, in other words. The man's upper body is rigid, and the woman revolves around him; down below, their legs and feet meet and embrace in steps too involved even for a computer to...
In Miami the rise of Cuban political power led to the fall of Puerto Rican-born Mayor Maurice Ferre in a blustery eleven-man race. For the past twelve years Ferre had adroitly managed to hold together a coalition of Miami's black, Hispanic and white voters. He lost black...
For once, no one voiced the cry "Vote Cuban," nor did the finalists compete in denouncing Castro. Instead, they talked about crime prevention and garbage collection. Banker Masvidal, a self-made millionaire and veteran of the Bay of Pigs invasion, inherited most of the black vote that had supported Ferre...