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Fryer and Torelli also found that while African Americans are often suspected of suffering the most from “acting white,” Hispanic students often face even more social pressure to underperform in class than do black students.
The ruling resulted from a lawsuit filed in 1982 by black and Hispanic groups claiming that redistricting a year earlier was illegally rigged to minimize minority voting power. U.S. District Judge Charles R. Norgle Sr. ordered the boundaries for seven wards redrawn. Observers expect Vrdolyak's forces to retain at...
Young, brash and full of unabashedly liberal ideas, Toney Anaya was considered one of the Democratic Party's brightest lights in 1982 after he won the Governor's seat by a landslide in conservative New Mexico. Anaya, now 44, immediately presented the legislature with sweeping plans for educational innovations, prison...
Soon after taking office, Anaya also began exasperating New Mexicans by barnstorming the country as head of Hispanic Force '84, an organization designed to increase Latin influence in the Democratic Party. Nor was he helped by the recession that hit New Mexico as its mining industry, notably uranium extraction, continued...
Her father is Rep. Robert Menendez D-N.J., the first Hispanic person ever to head the Democratic caucus, and she says this has inspired her dedication to a life of service.