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Ramos writes that, "Stanford, to its credit, at least restricts its [affirmative action] program to Blacks, native Americans, Mexican-Americans and Puerto Ricans." To its credit? I fear that Ramos has resided a bit too long inside Harvard's ivory tower, and that he has forgotten--if he ever understood--what life is like outside. Not all Asian-Anericans have the benefit of sharing Ramos's comfortable middle-class background and the advantages it has brought him. What of the children of Asians who have never had the good fortune to attend college and can barely make ends meet? What...
Like the tax laws, the immigration statutes that regulate the hiring of household help are frequently flouted. In Los Angeles whole neighborhoods are $ filled with Mexican and Central American maids, nannies and gardeners. "There are probably close to 1 million undocumented people here," says Madeline Janis, executive director of the Central American Refugee Center. "Whatever the reason, it makes it almost impossible for people from friendly governments to acquire legal papers." Yet the nanny business is booming. "Immigrant women have the most experience with taking care of children," Janis says. "And working mothers have a need for nurturing, flexible...
...exact proposal--put forth this fall by representatives of LaO (the Puerto Rican students' association), Raza (the Mexican-American students' assoication), and the Asian American Association--asks the College to implement Latino and Asian-American studies courses in traditional departments like English and sociology. Ethnic Studies proponents hope for the eventual establishment of an American studies or American cultures department. These activists complain that they cannot count on the availability of Asian and Latino American Studies courses unless Harvard hired permanent Asian and Latino American Studies professors, who could in turn conduct their research only with the support...
BOOKS Ruefully, an author recalls his lost Mexican past...
...1950S THE YOUNG RICHARD Rodriguez left Mexico with his parents to settle in California. Now the Mexican border runs through his brain. On one side is an old country more imagined than recalled, an ur-land of fatedness and tragic history. On the other is a bright, forgetful America, where every sunset takes the day with it. For years Rodriguez has been negotiating the divide in a mood of deep melancholy. In 1981 he published Hunger of Memory, an account of his longings en route through the parochial schools of Sacramento and the university campuses of Stanford, Columbia and Berkeley...