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Chicago Correspondent Roberto Suro took advantage of his own Hispanic background. Entering a ramshackle tavern in the city's largest Mexican neighborhood, he was at first rebuffed by a bartender. Says Suro: "When I told him my name and began to speak Spanish, he warmed up and even encouraged his customers to tell me about their experiences...
...Corning, Action Line learned that since the first such column appeared in the Houston Chronicle in 1961, the idea has spread to some 400 papers, from the New York Daily News (circ. 2 million, the nation's largest) to the mighty Logansport (Ind.) Pharos-Tribune (circ...
...American experience in the U.S. may be best illustrated, however, by what is happening in three other cities: metropolitan Miami, whose Cuban population (430,000) is exceeded only by Havana's; metropolitan Los Angeles, whose 1.6 million Hispanic population, which is overwhelmingly chicano, makes it the world's second largest Mexican agglomeration after Mexico City; and New York, which surpasses San Juan in Puerto Rican population (1.3 million). There is a fourth community that also demands study: that furtive, elusive subculture-within-a-subculture, the illegal aliens...
...Hispanics replaced blacks as the largest minority in Los Angeles. They are now overhauling whites, whose share of the city population has declined from 80.9% in 1950 to a projected 44.4% in 1980. Rapid demographic swings have brought racial edginess back to Los Angeles, where the Watts ghetto riots of 1965 are still remembered with fear. Says retired Los Angeles Police Captain Rudy de Leon: "There is more outward prejudice now against Mexican people than there has ever been." Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler did not help when he noted in an interview that his paper did not court...
...militant chicano rhetoric of the '60s, middle-class Hispanics were often criticized as "Tio Tacos" or "Tio Tomases"-the equivalent of the blacks' "Uncle Toms." Today businessmen like Gilbert Vasquez, 39, head of the largest Hispanic certified public accounting firm in the U.S. (five offices, 65 employees), feel that individual successes will be "stepping-stones" to lasting change. Vasquez, who has moved out of the barrio to suburban Alhambra, remains involved in ghetto issues and tries to get other Hispanic professionals to take part in politics. At one chicano fund-raising cocktail party, guests anted...