Word: hispanicization
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Along with quarrels on ideology, perhaps the most intense objections to Bloom's and Hirsch's doctrines come from educators who feel that many of the ideas are out of touch with countrywide classroom realities. Says Ralph Cusick, principal of Chicago's 3,900-pupil, predominantly Hispanic Schurz High School...
This past weekend the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta held its first national conference on AIDS and minorities. According to CDC statistics, although blacks and Hispanics constitute only 12% and 6% of the U.S. population, respectively, they currently account for a disproportionate 24% and 14% of the more than...
While the largest percentage of minority AIDS victims have been homosexuals or bisexuals (40% for blacks, 49% for Hispanics), the growing infection rate among IV drug abusers threatens to alter those proportions. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) estimates that 70% of the nation's 1.28 million IV addicts...
For the church, so often a source of strength and shelter in the black and Hispanic communities, AIDS is a prickly subject. Both the black churches and the Roman Catholic Church have traditionally been bastions of conservative values on sexual and social matters, and the idea of preaching the use...
At present, Hispanic culture is under attack for being too exclusive, too tied to its roots. Miami and large parts of Texas and the West Coast take Spanish as the language of choice almost as often as English.