Word: mexican-american
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...difficulties that lie ahead still loom large, given past obstacles, leaders at Harvard say. La O, Harvard's Puerto Rican students' association, and Raza, the University's Mexican-American organization, announced they have been negotiating with Harvard for more than a year to provide courses on Hispanic studies. According to La O leader Wendell C. Ocasio '90, La O even presented Harvard officials with the name of a professor at Puerto Rico University who could teach such a course...
Throughout the ongoing disputes over self-identification of minority groups--whether Black or African-American, American Indian or Native American, Asian or Asian-American, Mexican-American or Chicano--runs a common thread of the problem of cultural or ethnic identity...
...plan is not without its flaws. It would link all ethnicities and disciplines under a catch-all heading, "ethnic studies." Lumping together Asian-American literature and Mexican-American history and Native American art fails to recognize the inherent differences among the fields and may prove as effective as expecting the history, fine arts and literature departments to coordinate their efforts...
...students involved with a student-faculty group that last spring proposed a visiting professor program in Mexican-American studies said yesterday that they have "serious reservations" about the new fund. They said the Program may cover too many ethnic groups to sufficiently address the concerns of each...
...faculty committee, headed by Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam, will decide how to use the funds and will select the visiting professors. Bliss Professor of Latin American History John Womack Jr., one of the committee members, was part of the student-faculty group which proposed the Mexican-American visiting scholars program...