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...RAZA, Harvard's Mexican-American and Chicano club, socializing and activism conflict not in theory, but in the pocketbook...

Author: By Justin D. Lerer, | Title: POLITICAL ACTIVISM VS. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...club also joined with students from the Kennedy School to show the PBS series "Chicano Movement" to interested students. Montoya describes the series as "a whole history of the Mexican-American civil rights struggle...

Author: By Justin D. Lerer, | Title: POLITICAL ACTIVISM VS. SOCIAL ACTIVITIES | 6/6/1996 | See Source »

...Ghost of Tom Joad, is his best in years, it's because Springsteen has turned his attention once again to the downtrodden. The songs on the new album are about desperate lives along the Mexican-American border. Each is like a short story; several unwind without choruses. On Sinaloa Cowboys, Springsteen sings of two illegal immigrants who fall in with drug traffickers (he manages to rhyme "ravine" and "methamphetamine"). His sound--somewhere between Springsteen's stark Nebraska album and his serenely wrenching hit Streets of Philadelphia--is spare, featuring little instrumentation beyond an acoustic guitar, harmonica and keyboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: BORDER MUSIC | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...global perspective on the Pontiff's role. "We in the U.S. are so intent on 'political' questions we sometimes forget that the Pope has a worldwide church to worry about," he says. For this week's piece, Bonfante brought the international perspective home by traveling to predominantly Mexican-American East Los Angeles to visit the Iglesia de la Resurreccion (Church of the Resurrection), where Mass is accompanied by an eight-piece mariachi band, complete with trumpets and guitars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers, Oct. 9, 1995 | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

CHARGED. HOWARD STERN, 41, radio "shock jock"; with disorderly conduct; by a judge in Harlingen, Texas. Stern's on-air mocking of slain Mexican-American singing star Selena could earn him a $500 fine if he ever sets foot in the Lone Star State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1995 | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

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