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...corner phone with my girlfriend," Slicc recounted. "The Mexican drives up and yells, 'What set you from?' I yell it ain't none of his business, and he busts three caps ((shoots three bullets)) at me. I take out my gun and bust four back . . ." At that point, the father began to wave his arms and shout. Friends of Slicc's and Flipper's pushed the man firmly back inside his house. "Parents don't understand," shrugged Flipper...
...traded shots with Slicc was a member of the East Side Longos, a large Mexican-American gang rooted in the Hispanic community that settled along Anaheim Street in Long Beach (pop. 429,000) after World War II. Three decades later, Cambodian immigrants seeking affordable homes arrived. "At school the Mexicans looked down upon us and hurt us," recalls Mad Dog, 29, a "retired" homeboy whose mother was a Phnom Penh university professor. "We saw that American people had groups, white with white, black with black. We decided to become more famous. If they could steal cars and do drive...
...common ground. Inglewood High School, 90% white 20 years ago and 90% black 10 years ago, is 48% Latino today. "We have the same challenges, and I've learned to see that if everybody united, we could be a big force," says Efrain Nava, a 16-year-old Mexican American. "We are all minorities, but together we are a majority...
...spoken in Tagalog, where suburban developers study the ancient Chinese concept of feng shui to ensure harmonious building design and smooth cosmic energy flow. It is not the Beach Boys or the Eagles or the Grateful Dead who provide the voice of California today; it is Los Lobos, a Mexican-American rock band. Amy Tan novels and Boyz N the Hood are the artifacts of the new United States of California. And when it comes to the latest groups of immigrants -- as with the settlers in Steinbeck country -- few of the stereotypes apply: most of the state's Hispanics...
...largest concentration of Latinos in the nation, it was only this year that newly drawn districts enabled them to win a seat. "We have the numbers, but the numbers are not reflected in the political and economic power structures," says Antonia Hernandez, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which led the redistricting battle...