Word: raza
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...typical Chicano. In fact, the author, Ruben Navarrette Jr. '89-'90, is far from typical, and his autobiography presents issues of affirmative action, civil rights, growing up and adjusting to Harvard from a partial perspective, overshadowed much of the time by Navarrette's personality. His frequent criticisms of RAZA, the Mexican-American student association, add to the book's sense ofone-sidedness...
Navarrette's only recourse during his time at Harvard was RAZA and the organization's members. He writes that RAZA was "the centerpiece of my very existence at Harvard. I drank RAZA. I dated RAZA." Unfortunately for Navarrette, he alienated himself even from his friends in RAZA when he publicly criticized Cesar Chavez's leadership of the United Farm Workers...
...event was presented by the Academic AffairsCommittee of the Harvard Foundation forIntercultural and Race Relations and co-sponsoredby Harvard-Radcliffe La Raza...
Chris M. Sotomayor '96, RAZA's representativeto the Harvard Foundation for InterculturalAffairs and Race Relations Academic AffairsCommittee, said the book is not damaging. "The oneproblem I have is that Navarrette seems tointernalize his problems, he keeps wondering if hegot in because of his race. No one gets in becauseof their race; they only accept us when they areconfident that we can do the work," Sotomayorsaid...
Sotomayor said other members of RAZA may feeldifferently. The club has been discussing whethermembers should buy the book, he said, because theymay not want to contribute to Navarrettesroyalties...