Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students could be brought on board through approaches that don't address race head on--have deflated. At Berkeley minority admissions have plummeted. Of the 10,509 applicants who were offered a slot this year, only 2.4% are African American, down from 5.6% a year ago. Chicano students of Mexican descent, about 11% of the applicants accepted in 1997, made up just 6% this year. Taken together, African Americans, Native Americans and Latinos of all backgrounds, who constitute about 34% of the state's population, account for just a tenth of this year's admissions. Berkeley admissions director Bob Laird...
...contrast to 4.3% (416) the year before the law changed. At Texas A&M admissions of black students fell 3%, and those of Hispanic students went down 7%. "We expected a significant increase in minority numbers, and that did not happen," concedes Al Kauffman, a senior lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, who helped draft the law. A notable exception: at UT Austin the chief beneficiaries of the new law seem to be Asian students, whose admissions under the 10% Plan rose a whopping 16% in the past two years...
About 15 students watched a film last night about the strike by Mexican-American farm workers during the 1960s. Afterwards, Daisy M. Rooks, an organizer for the United Farm Workers (UFW) spoke about current conditions and ongoing campaigns...
...film, titled "Chicano: A History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement," depicted the strike of California grape workers led by Caesar Chavez from...
...racial composition includes 18 percent Asian Americans, 9.9 percent African Americans, 3.7 percent Hispanic Americans, 3.1 percent Mexican Americans, 1.75 percent Puerto Ricans, and 0.6 percent Native Americans...