Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Regardless of its 'official' designation as a Mexican-American group, [RAZA] has always been a meeting place--a crossroads, if you will--of Harvard Latino and Latina students," Martinez wrote in an e-mail message...
RAZA's constitution today-which says its members are "determined to define [their] Mexican and Latino roots in the American political and social context"--is more explicit in defining its dual identity...
...Latinos at the same time we are Mexican-Americans," says Monica M. Ramirez '01, who is the group's academic affairs representative to the Harvard Foundation...
...people who are Latino grew up in Mexican-American communities, and they feel comfortable here," she added. "Our mission is to explore the elements of the Mexican-American culture, but we try to reach out to the Latino community as well...
Balancing the two communities has been RAZA's biggest challenge, leaders and members say, especially when a group officially designated for students of Mexican-American and Latino heritage has a membership that is primarily Mexican-American...