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...Migrant workers bring a crime wave to Dade County...
...action, for example, and hence by race? Aren't political aspects, like President Clinton's cabinet, which he promised to make as diverse as America, determined by race? Finally, hasn't our history, stretching from the slave history to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1865 to the Chicano-led migrant worker rebellions, been determined by race...
George Milton (Gary Sinise) and Lennie Small (John Malkovich), protagonists of both the book and movie, became tragic heroes in my early adolescent eyes. This story of two Depression era migrant workers, with its sparse prose, illumines the intricacies of loneliness and companionship, desire and hope, greed and helplessness. It ranks among the great American classics...
George Milton (Gary Sinise) and Lennie Small (John Malkovich), protagonists of both the book and movie, became tragic heroes in my early adolescent eyes. This story of two Depression era migrant workers, with its sparse prose, illumines the intricacies of loneliness and companionship, desire and hope, greed and helplessness. It ranks among the great American classics...
...sobering experience for me. It is the first time I have acutely felt that I'm a minority. In my Texas border town, Hispanics of predominantly Mexican descent represent more than 75 percent of the population officially; unofficially the number is probably closer to 90 percent with the illegal migrant population. The student body of my high school was 99 percent Hispanic. Spanish, or Spanglish, was more common than English in my neighborhood. In the United States, Hispanics account for approximately 20 percent of the population. At the College, Hispanics account for approximately 6 percent of the undergraduate population...