Word: hispanicization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For each new wave of arrivals, the hardships have been the same: a mysterious language to be mastered, an education to be pursued, a career to be won. So it has been with one of the nation's newest, yet at the same time oldest immigrant groups: the 19...
NEW YORK CITY. Partly as a result of white flight to the suburbs, the school population, just short of a million students, is now 70% black and Hispanic. But with an education budget of $2.8 billion, the city can spend over $2,500 a pupil, as much as many expensive...
Does Mr. Bakke speak Spanish and is he willing to treat the poor and disadvantaged in the barrios of America? Some of the Hispanic doctors that graduated under the Davis quota system are doing just that. With the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, discrimination in the professions will persist for another...
Every year thousands of pre-Hispanic objects-Mayan stelae, Aztec jewelry, Incan pottery, Olmec figurines-are smuggled out of Mexico, Central America and the Andean nations of South America. The illicit trade easily reaches millions of dollars annually and involves characters so bizarre they might have stepped out of an...
A column by Anthony Lewis '48 that appeared in yesterday's New York Times inadvertantly points up the danger of a diversity-oriented program. "Harvard...used to have only a handful of minority students," Lewis writes, adding, "Under its present admissions policy, which he [Powell] praised, 8.1 per cent of...