Word: mexicanization
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...Laura Castro de Cortes doesn't deny that her ethnicity and background-she is a Mexican-American who was born in the U.S. but raised in a Mexican border town-helped her to segue from years of working in nonprofits and education to a career as a consultant on Latino marketing...
...Like Water for Chocolate Home cooking is the sorcery of the oppressed. In this sprawling banquet of a romantic Mexican melodrama, forbidden love finds the recipe for fulfillment -- even if it takes a lifetime and beyond. Screenwriter-novelist Laura Esquivel and her husband, director Alfonso Arau, capture a savory passion that comes straight from the hearth...
...institution allowed to “choose” a student’s race? Harvard proudly posts the class of 2008’s racial composition to incoming freshmen on the undergraduate admissions website. It celebrates the 8.9 percent African American, 4.1 percent Hispanic American, 3.1 percent Mexican American, 19.9 percent Asian American, and 1.1 percent Native American composition of the 2008 class and pats itself on the shoulder for recognizing diversity. However, the site doesn’t show the number of mixed race students or recognize that they even exist on campus. The college is clearly overlooking...
...real narrator might be a teenage Christopher forging his past. The novel runs more smoothly when the bizarre, the supernatural, and the downright impossible are delivered deadpan and unexplained. In this mode we meet a kaleidoscopic whirl of characters: scientist grandparents who invent an Inconsumable Taco to end Mexican hunger, man-eating apocalyptic coyotes, and Machiavellian politicians who hide microchips in sugar to read opponents’ minds over morning coffee. Christopher’s voice leaps in style from snake oil charlatan to coke addict to dyspeptic political pundit. A prenatal savant, he fires off puns and bawdy jokes...
...their jackets to realize that the focus was squarely on all things edible. This represents an incredible opportunity for the UC. If all it takes to summon a horde of students is a stack of tacos, the UC could theoretically hold the entire Harvard administration hostage with strategically placed Mexican food and the threat of ravenous student stampedes. Imagine. UC President Matthew J. Glazer ‘06 is Aragorn; Felipe’s is Anduril. And we hungry Harvardians are the Ghost Army at his back. Next stop: Harvard University Dining Services to rape, pillage, and secure unlimited Congo...