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...often in racially and ethnically mixed work environments, most Atlantans choose to spend their leisure time with people who look just like them. Contrary to its cosmopolitan exterior, flashy tourism ads and the rhetoric of local politicians - and despite the fact that it has the fastest growing Latino population of any city in the nation, and a foreign-born population that grew by almost 50% between 2000 and 2005 - there continue to be two distinctly different Atlantas...
...pool this year, and a larger-than-average increase in applicants was reported from the Mid-Atlantic and the South. The admissions office said it did not yet have complete statistics on the number of minority applicants this year, “but the numbers of African American and Latino applicants already exceed last year’s totals by a considerable margin...
...admissions office said it did not yet have complete statistics on the number of minority applicants this year, "but the numbers of African American and Latino applicants already exceed last year’s totals by a considerable margin...
...Asian American Association would do best to seek alliances with other ethnic organizations on campus—South Asian Association, for instance, which has also pushed for a South Asian Studies Initiative, and Harvard-Radcliffe RAZA, an organization of Chicano students that has discussed the possibility of a Latino studies program. The Black Students Association also has much insight from which to draw, given the strength of Harvard’s African and African-American Studies Department. In 2002, an attempted coalition between these groups fell apart because of tensions between ethnic-specific goals and the goal of ethnic studies...
...program in ethnic studies could establish a streamlined infrastructure for the creation of additional courses (and hiring of additional faculty) focused on minority ethnicities in America.The Committee on Ethnic Studies is the body currently responsible for recruiting “visitors who offer courses in Native American, U.S. Latino, and Asian American studies.” The adoption of secondary concentrations gives the Committee an opportunity to do far more for ethnic studies than ever before. If it is serious about promoting ethnic studies at Harvard, it should begin right away to push for its own secondary concentration, which would...