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...lessons applicable to the current situation in Latin America are inscribed in the history--the very difficult history--of Mexican-American relations...
Each Black, Mexican-American and foreign student will be able to cast one of his or her four at large votes for a candidate running for Black. Hispanic or foreign senator at large, respectively. One additional seat will be granted for each 2000 Black, Hispanic or foreign students...
...brightest moments in Mexican-American relations was during the Administrations of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lázaro Cárdenas. In Mexico there were great social changes, but the U.S. Government, without concealing its occasional displeasure, respected those decisions. Contributing to this harmony was an identical view of international affairs: for both Presidents, the defense of democracy against Hitler and Mussolini was primary. The circumstances today are different, but the principles on which that good relation was founded still apply: respect for the independence of Mexico, tolerance toward the necessary and almost always healthy diversity of opinions, fidelity...
Caro's Johnson is, for the most part, a heel. But like many another great man, Johnson failed in his efforts to be thoroughly knavish. As a young teacher in a dusty South Texas hamlet, he drove his Mexican-American students relentlessly, and gave them self-respect and ambitions they had never known. In the book's most touching chapter, Caro describes Johnson's enduring love for Alice Glass, the high-spirited mistress and later the wife of Publisher and Oilman Charles Marsh. Their affair began in 1938, after Alice, then 26, met the tall, jug-eared...
...Mexican-American electorate, which has doubled since 1976, helped to swing the election. Clements made much of White's opposition to the 1965 Voting Rights Act extension, and referred to himself as un hombre de palabra (a man of his word). White countered with slogans like Ya basta . . . de los Republicanos (Enough of Republicans). Chicanos agreed: the Democrats took more than 85% of the Hispanic vote. Statewide turnout was unusually high (49%), and in some black neighborhoods in Houston, which were carried heavily by White, it approached...