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Some students have punctured ethnic boundaries. The Black Students Association, the Chinese Students Association, Fuerza Latina, and Native Americans of Harvard College all boast memberships that transcend ethnic lines...
...said. Some students were unsure whether it was appropriate for the advisory to label the assailant as Hispanic. “Having that description does not necessarily mean a certain phenotype or physical characteristic,” said Felipe A. Tewes ’06, former president of Fuerza Latina. “What’s sad is that they’re probably going to be looking for a certain type of image of what a Latino criminal would look like. I don’t believe that would be helpful.”According to Conley...
...hasn’t always been that way. At the beginning of her acting career in the U.S., Hayek struggled to convince film executives that she could appeal to the American mass market as a Latina leading lady. In fact, at a press conference, Hayek recounts a time in her career when she was asked to visit American soldiers in war-time Kosovo during one Thanksgiving, as a sort of “Marilyn Monroe-like figure” to buoy military spirits. As she tells it, her “Why’d they pick...
...Once Upon a Time in Mexico”) and a director to be reckoned with (she won an Emmy for directing the Showtime movie “The Maldonado Miracle”). In fact, in 2004, Hayek ended the year as Hollywood’s highest paid Latina actress, earning approximately $20 million for her films...
...Academy Awards, she became the second Latina in history to be nominated as Best Actress in a Leading Role, for her portrayal of Frida Kahlo in “Frida,” a film that she also co-produced...