Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Immigrants have landed there before, of course, though never in such numbers. "We find ourselves suddenly threatened," said the last Mexican Governor of California, in 1846, "by hordes of Yankee emigrants ... whose progress we cannot arrest." Southern California in particular has always been full of transplants becoming Americans...
Still, the sheer size of the potential Mexican electorate cannot be ignored, only analyzed away. "The latino majority on the east side [of the black district]," says Maxine Waters, an assemblywoman, "is still mainly undocumented workers who don't vote." Del Olmo agrees that his people's power is all latent: "The numbers indicate potential. Too many latinos fall back on rhetoric and raw numbers to prove their validity." He thinks that Mexican political muscle may not be flexed until the next century. In the year 2000, according to a study of L.A.'s future just completed by U.S.C., Hispanics...
Nevertheless, eight out of ten L.A. "Hispanics" are Mexicans or Mexican Americans, probably 2.1 million in all. And they are different in a critical respect from all the other ethnic arrivals: the immigrant from Mexico comes from near by to what was, until 1848, Mexican national territory. He arrives feeling as much like a migrant as an immigrant, not an illegal alien but a reconquistador...
Harvard originally announced early in April that the Gdansk electrician had accepted an invitation to deliver the Commencement address in person, but later reports indicated that he would not leave Poland. After giving up on that possibility and selecting another Commencement speaker. Mexican poet Carlos Funnies, officials floated the possibility that Walesa would mail the speech, and that someone else would deliver...
...afternoon portion of the graduation exercises. President Bok and Commencement speaker Carlos Fuentes (see story and excerpts from the speech, page 14) a Mexican author and diplomat, will address the just graduated seniors, returning to the Yard for the Harvard Alumni Association Annual Meeting...