Word: hispanicization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many blacks charge that the city goes out of its way to provide housing, jobs and social services for the Hispanic immigrants, while ignoring the needs of the black citizenry. "The Nicaraguans get food, they get clothing," says Vanessa Haynes, 34, a black data-entry officer at the University of...
With last week's appointments, Bush had one woman and one minority -- holdover Education Secretary Lauro Cavazos, a Hispanic -- in his top management team. Bush promises to do more to broaden the mix. His talent scouts have mounted a national drive to recruit more minorities and females for sub-Cabinet...
In fact, it would have been politically foolhardy for Bush to drop Cavazos, who had faithfully stumped for him across the Southwest. The President-elect had promised to name a Hispanic to his Cabinet, making the replacement of the non-controversial Secretary doubly difficult. But Cavazos was probably Bush's...
But others do. The sheer numbers of Hispanic immigrants, their cohesiveness and their growing political power set these immigrants apart from earlier groups who had to assimilate or fail. In the Miami area, for example, Spanish- language versions of everything from lottery tickets to televised game shows, as well as...
Those who believe that the movement inflames nativist resentments got some ammunition this fall. The ethnocentric views of U.S. English's co-founder and former chairman John Tanton came to light when initiative opponents uncovered a 1986 memo in which he expressed worry that low white birthrates and high Hispanic...