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...Scalia pointed to the problem in both districts of dividing students into only two categories, with no distinction made for Latino, Asian-American or multi-racial students. "What if a particular child's grandfather was white?" he asked. "There are many people of mixed blood." When told parents are allowed to self-identify with a particular racial group, Scalia said that that "seems like a big loophole...
...also noted that there is “very little capacity at Harvard to study Latino rights issues. There needs to be more of this work in the social sciences...
...diverse faculty can also contribute to the study of diversity, Orfield said. While he noted that race did not necessarily determine a faculty member’s interest in studying civil rights, “people who come from an African American, Latino, or Native American background have distinctive perspective and raise issues that other faculty don’t as well...
...This strong-willed Zambrano gene was instilled in me as well.” The essay describes living in the “myopic, conservative town” of Stockton, Calif., where Zambrano attends the only public school in the district. The school boasts diversity and a growing Latino population, but Zambrano voices a different opinion. “I was a smart kid, I had good grades, but the attention was on the white kids in my class and I was left behind...
...taboos about sex, drugs, mental illness, and ethnic slurs have vanished. Comedians like Dave Chappelle and Carlos Mencia frequently joke about these things. In public. Loudly. Chappelle, who is African American, and Mencia, who is Latino, specialize in joking about ethnic groups—their own and others—but they aren’t universally denounced as racists...