Word: mexican-american
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...student leaders will try to draw student and faculty support for the cause of ethnic studies, Xavier A. Gutierrez '95, president of Mexican-American student organization Raza said last night...
...congratulating our exemplary Afro-Am department, I hope I haven't understand the concerns of many students. Namely, there are zero Mexican-American or Puerto Rican-American senior faculty (a critical distinction to make here, as well as for Asian-American tenured professors, is that between ethnic American scholars and elite foreign scholars), zero Native American senior faculty and a gaping hole in our curriculum with regard to permanent ethnic studies courses...
...members of Raza, a Mexican-American organization, called a meeting last night to discuss the possibility of staging a protest during Junior Parents Weekend, according to two student sources...
...some members of the Mexican-American group decried the election process, arguing that Alejandro Contreras '95, Gutierrez's only opponent, was unfairly denied a chance to prepare adequately and to round up supporters...
...traditional metaphor for this is that of a mosaic. But Richard Rodriguez, the Mexican-American essayist who is a psalmist for our new hybrid forms, points out that the interaction is more fluid than that, more human, subject to daily revision. "I am Chinese," he says, "because I live in San Francisco, a Chinese city. I became Irish in America. I became Portuguese in America." And even as he announces this new truth, Portuguese women are becoming American, and Irishmen are becoming Portuguese, and Sydney (or is it Toronto?) is thinking to compare itself with the "Chinese city" we know...