Word: mexican-americans
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...Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations announced yesterday that Lopez, a Mexican-American actor and comedian, will host this Saturday’s 19th annual Cultural Rhythms show...
...that 7.1 percent of the Class of 2007 is, in fact, “foreign” according to the admissions office—meaning that they are not from the United States or Canada— and that 34.9 percent other students identify themselves as Asian-American, African-American, Puerto Rican, Mexican-American, Hispanic-American or Native American, the preamble to the Foreign Cultures section presumes that all students at the University identify most closely to the “U.S. and Anglophone cultures...
...idea made perfect sense to anyone who knew Rodriguez. Born in San Antonio, Rodriguez grew up in a Mexican-American family of 10 and started making movies at age 12 with a Super 8 video camera, using his brothers and sisters, "little kids who you'd think couldn't even tie their shoes doing action and comedy." These family-fueled shorts even won awards at some local film festivals. His sister Patricia Vonne says nobody was surprised when Robert became a filmmaker. "Dad's Super 8 was always glued to his head," she says. "It didn't even have...
...planned to take it--right up until the day that August when her father, a construction worker, was killed by an 18-wheeler. Her mother needed her, and so Hernandez went home to Texas. With no journalism jobs in sight, she began teaching English to mostly poor Mexican-American kids at her old high school. She urged them to follow their dreams...
...read a book by Jos Limn that had a chapter which encouraged further study of Mexican-American culture,” Huerta says. “I knew that’s what I wanted to do, and after some research I decided to focus on restaurants...