Word: raza
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Balancing the two communities has been RAZA's biggest challenge, leaders and members say, especially when a group officially designated for students of Mexican-American and Latino heritage has a membership that is primarily Mexican-American...
...current member and a former executive board member of RAZA, Rovira says at study breaks sponsored by Fuerza Quisqueyana he could count on finding Caribbean food and listening to salsa instead of the Tejano music and enchiladas RAZA served...
...Lizbeth Alatorre '99, president of Latinas Unidas, says that while RAZA may help meet the demand for Latino student groups, students can turn to smaller groups for more specialized needs...
...just felt being a Latina was different from being a Latino," says Alatorre, who is a former executive board member of RAZA. "By talking about women's issues and putting women in a lot of leadership positions, Latinas Unidas fulfilled some of my needs...
...Rovira both point to groups like their own and the Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association (CAUSA), the Harvard Brazilian Organization, the Harvard Organization of Latin Americans (targeted toward international students) and Concilio Latino, a University-wide umbrella organization as alternatives to RAZA...