Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Cotton implies that the University of Texas Law School ought to admit only "academically competitive" whites, he is really saying that blacks and Mexican-Americans should be denied the social power that comes with a legal education. And when Cotton writes that the taxfinanced state school should adjust its admissions criteria to exclude minorities, he means that the school should show no social or political responsibility to the large black and Hispanic communities that help to support...
With such damning and incontrovertible evidence that affirmative action is in fact preferences and quotas, Graglia said last fall that the emperor had no clothes. He said "blacks and Mexican-Americans are not academically competitive with whites in selective institutions...
There's also the hunger for having it all, a voracious desire to devour life--and food. Aside from the Mexican chow consumed during this late-afternoon interview, a solicitous valet furnishes Travolta with a box of chocolate ladyfingers, mere snacks "to tide him over" until dinner. Lunch can be an orgy of steamed lobster or an artery-choking beef Wellington. His sister Annie marvels at this "Vanderbilt" life-style, where 24-hour chefs cater to any food fantasy. Even during a marketing powwow for Primary Colors, Nichols recalls, "everyone brought along sandwiches except John, who was served four...
Raza is the campus Mexican-American group and Latinas Unidas an all-female society for Latinas. Latinas Unidas and Raza are not by definition competitive organizations, since they are designed to serve different functions for the campus Latina community, Alatorre said...
...features subject matter that may be new to some, such as the teaching of sexual orientation, the political motivations of the Zapatistas (a Mexican rebel group), what it means to live in corporate culture and new ways to explore the fragmenting effects of identity politics...