Word: hispanicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As America's latest great wave of immigrants, Hispanics are learning another hard lesson: latecomers start at the bottom. Nearly 27% of Hispanic families in the U.S. earn under $7,000 a year; only 16.6% of non-Hispanic families fare as badly. For the second quarter of 1978 the Hispanic...
In a society more aware of minority rights than ever, that demand is hard to brush aside. Many Hispanic spokesmen speak of "linguistic liberation" and argue that failure to provide bilingual education amounts to "cultural colonization" by the majority angles. Others say that failure to provide bilingual instruction guarantees that...
Critics attack bilingual programs on several grounds: that they are inadequate or inefficient; that extra efforts should not be made for Spanish-speaking children unless they are also made for French-speaking or Hebrew-speaking or Vietnamese-speaking children; and, perhaps most cogently, that Hispanic students who speak mostly Spanish...
The slow growth of Hispanic affluence and educational attainment is mirrored in politics and in Government bureaucracies. There are five Hispanics in the House of Representatives, compared with 16 blacks and 22 Jews. The Hispanics are Edward Roybal, 62, of California; Manuel Lujan, 54, of New Mexico; Robert Garcia, 45...
That is where many Hispanic leaders want to concentrate their efforts. Says Richard Hernandez, 31, one of Carter's White House counsellors: "You can't work outside or around the power system. You've got to get inside. And where it counts is with votes."