Word: hispanicized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Six per cent of all white students at Harvard are from working-class backgrounds, while working-class students make up 14 per cent of the Black community, 18 per cent of Hispanic students, and 10 per cent of all Oriental students.
The extension of the act goes beyond a recent Supreme Court decision by declaring that a state voting law can be ruled illegal if its "effect" is to discriminate. The court had ruled that a state must be shown to have "intended" to discriminate before its procedures could be struck...
(7 of 12) Eastman Avenue Elementary School in east Los Angeles, 1,550 children, nearly all Hispanic, fill the lunchroom with a clamorous din. Every single one of them eats free. Since more than 85% would qualify for no-cost meals anyway, the school had been excused from charging anybody...
Galvan's lecture, "Reflections of an Intellectual and Politician," was received with great enthusiasm by a primarily Hispanic audience.
The garment industry and its sweatshops have spread over the years beyond New York. In Los Angeles, inspectors have uncovered more than 2,000 illegal workplaces using Hispanic labor. So many garment shops have popped up in Miami that one industry executive calls it "the Chinatown of the South."