Word: latinos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Hispanic journalists with established careers in the so-called mainstream press are attracted to these ventures because of the opportunity to focus exclusively on the Latino community. Guillermo Martinez, a Cuban who was senior editor of the Miami Herald, left to join Univision, where he heads the news department. Univision anchorwoman and producer Teresa Rodriguez has turned down offers from Good Morning, America and two NBC affiliates, preferring to cover Hispanic America in depth...
With the Silver Fox are the Bush troops. The president found himself in a little trouble during the GOP Convention when he, pointing out a few grandchildren to Reagan, referred to the children of a Latino daughter-in-law as the "little brown ones...
...term "people of color" is intended as a substitute for partisan names like "Black," "Asian" and "Latino," which emphasize the differences between different minority communities. It attempts to encapsulate the fact that all of these minority groups face discrimination and trouble with integration into mainstream culture...
...were called "colored people," as if normal people were white and Blacks were merely white people with a little coloring. In the same sense, "people of color" perpetuates ethnocentrism by continuing to place "white people" as the central group to which all others are compared. Words like Black or Latino emphasize that different minorities have as much independent reality as whites. Rather than defining one group in terms of another, each group's integrity should be recognized and appreciated...
Joseph Montaya, resident tutor of Mather House and Salsa's advisor, said he hopes "Salsa" will be a "cultural vehicle for both Latino culture and political activity at Harvard." He added that he expects the first issue to be ready by January...