Word: latinas
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Obama has suggested that Sotomayor might have chosen her words differently when, in a 2001 speech, she suggested that a Latina raised in a poor neighborhood had an advantage over a privileged white male in judging cases that involved impoverished minorities. Perhaps she should have - although we seem to have reached a quiet consensus that Sotomayor is right, that our national diversity is a splendid advantage in matters of justice and culture. You want to have powerful Latinas - and others, the full panoply of American types - helping make big decisions, not just on the Supreme Court, but in boardrooms, schools...
...this is a welcome surprise, said Sadique. Carpio has also been involved in several students groups in her time at Harvard. She has served as the faculty advisor both for Black Community and Student Theater, a campus theater group that produces the works of African-American playwrights, and Fuerza Latina, an undergraduate organization that provides support for Harvard’s Latino students. These organizations reflect her own diversity, as she is a Guatemalan-born Latina woman who teaches both the English language and African-American history for her profession. “I would say that she reminds...
...School-year meetings, forums, and workshops: Throughout the year, students could attend workshops and meetings to continue receiving support. Student groups such as the Harvard Black Student Association and Fuerza Latina could join these programs...
...with special reference to the works of Virginia Woolf. [3]Most of this column was originally our class day speech. We knew we didn’t have a shot in the male serious, male humor, female serious, or female humor [4] categories, so we submitted it under obese Latina in a Tweety bird t-shirt category. But Margaret M. Wang ’09 won again—some people are just naturals. When we were but small freshmen, we lived, for a time, in a pre-Qdoba, post-Lamont Dessert Riot universe with antiquated institutions like solvent...
...Mike Huckabee refers to as "Maria Sotomayor" because, you know, aren't all Latina women named Maria...