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Word: mexicanization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to Square One | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to Square One | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Activist Tells of Workers' Plight | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...film, titled "Chicano: A History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement," depicted the strike of California grape workers led by Caesar Chavez from...

Author: By Jennifer M. Siegel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Activist Tells of Workers' Plight | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Melissa K. Crocker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 2073 Are Admitted to Harvard | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

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