Word: mexicans
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With Prefrosh Weekend looming, minority groups have started their spring scramble to secure hosts for Harvard’s newest admits. It starts every April, when each of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program’s (UMRP) five divisions—for African American, Asian American, Latino American, Mexican American, and Native American students—host phone-a-thons to call admitted students. “At the end of our conversation [with these students] we ask if they’re coming to Prefrosh Weekend, and particularly with the Asian students we ask if they?...
...leading critics of Burns' film is Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, a University of Texas journalism professor who has been leading a decade-long effort to collect the oral history of Hispanic contributions during World War II. She was alerted to their contribution as a journalist covering Mexican-American civil rights groups, many of whose leaders had been World War II veterans...
...Latino experience is really rich and very unique. We are very disappointed," Rivas-Rodriguez said. "This is the story of not only our parents, our grandparents, but our tios and tias. This is not a Puerto Rican issue, not a Mexican issue, not a Cuban issue, but all Latinos and Latinas. This is one of the few times we all agree on something...
...quick glance at the University of Texas web site U.S. Latinos and Latinas and World War II reveals the stories of numerous veterans, from farm-worker families in South Texas to famed members of the so-called Aztec Eagles, the 300-member Escuadron 201. The Eagles were an all-Mexican expeditionary force, organized after Mexico declared war on the Axis powers, which trained in the U.S. and then flew combat missions in the Philippines. Only five members of the squadron are still alive and one of them, pilot Reynaldo Perez Gallardo, nicknamed "Pancho Pistolar" after a Disney character, tells...
...Hope in an Antihero Mexican President Felipe Calderón projects an antihero image that contrasts sharply with the populist Presidents in Latin America [March 19]. It means that there is hope for Mexico to achieve social and economic growth without ruining its future. Rogelio Pardo-Evans, SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA...