Word: mexican-american
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...strategy is to provide the same goods as the best bodegas but in spacious, sparkling showrooms that rival high-end Anglo supermarkets such as Trader Joe's or Whole Foods. "The big chains gave Gigante the opportunity to come in here," says Steven Soto, head of the L.A.-based Mexican-American Grocers Association, a trade group that represents some 18,000 Latino store managers and owners. "The chains didn't understand how to market to our community. But Gigante has done a lot to open their eyes...
...says she felt lost in a place of Harvard’s size, and missed the proactive advising system at Exeter. It was only when Hernandez got involved with RAZA, the Mexican-American student group, that she began to feel at home. “I finally felt that there was a group of people that knew where I was coming from,” she says. “I felt I had found a group where I could belong...
...Council. As she puts it, “My identity as an ethnic person happened here.” Last year, Hernandez served as president of RAZA, and remains active in the Harvard Association Cultivating Inter-American Democracy (HACIA Democracy), a model government program for Latin American High School students. She tutors writing and Spanish at the Bureau of Study Counsel, is a Mexican-American representative for the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, and is a member of the Race, Culture and Diversity Council for Winthrop House. Her involvement in the campaign for Latino and ethnic studies at Harvard grew...
...from the start: dubbing Berkeley Congresswoman Barbara Lee a "traitor" for casting the sole vote in the House against authorizing military force in response to the Sept. 11 attacks; calling for the bulldozing of People's Park, a local battleground of civil disobedience; describing the activities of a campus Mexican-American group as "Student Funded Bigotry and Hate." The February edition will celebrate Black History Month with an all-out assault on affirmative action. Says U.C. Berkeley political science professor Bruce Cain: "The right-wing kids come in with a chip on their shoulder. They're aware of being...
Zinn compared the war on terror to other wars in the past—the Spanish-American War, the Mexican-American War and the Vietnam War—that “purport to be one thing but are really something else.” Instead of being a war on terror, Zinn said the current war is motivated by American political, economic and psychological “expansionism...