Word: raza
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learn from each other and our experiences. As individuals, we can work through Phillips Brooks House to engage ourselves in our community. As individuals, we can take the small steps to ensure greater communication--we can sit with students of different backgrounds, we can attend BSA, AAA, RAZA or Hillel meetings without necessarily being part of the racial or ethnic groups that those organizations represent. We must all begin to assume responsibility for the world around us and we must stop removing ourselves from that responsibility...
Marchers walking behind them clapped and cheered, chanting "La raza vive" ("The race lives") and "La lucha sigue" ("The fight continues...
There has been a lot of undue controversy regarding the Statistics 100 project that Mark Veblen and I undertook last spring. Our endeavor was gravely misrepresented in Juan E. Garcia and Edgar Salivar's guest commentary titled "The March of La Raza" (Opinion, October 21, 1996), and in an article by Devi Sengupta, a co-president of the Minority Student Alliance in the Harvard Independent (October 3 1996). It is not surprising that both commentaries completely missed the point of our project since neither of the authors asked for a copy of the our report. One would think that...
...marchers, their passions were embodied in the converged masses and their hopes, our parents' hopes, were reignited by the visions of their children, America's children. We marched in support of each other and the American dream. We marched to establish a presence and to show that raza can become an American concept...
Juan E. Garcia '99 and Edgar Saldivar '99 are members of Harvard-Radcliffe Raza...