Word: chicanos
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...needs characters to animate it. That doesn't take long: strong-willed women keep showing up unbidden in his room, removing their clothes, tangling him in their sad fates. Vera (Idina Menzel), who loves Bandini's writing, needs someone to tend her wounds. Camilla (Salma Hayek), a Chicano waitress who can't read his words but has great body English, starts to lure Bandini away from his obsession with those beautiful golden-haired California girls...
...report from UCLA's Chicano Studies Research Center found that American-born laborers in "brown-collar" jobs--that is, jobs disproportionately held by Hispanic immigrants--earn 11% less than workers in comparable occupations. The study says the limited political power of Hispanic cooks, painters and gardeners creates a wage drag. Says Chon Noriega, the center's director: "The only way we can address this inequity is to give Hispanics the same protections as other workers...
...Colorado, Stone spent more time organizing the locals than providing actual legal services, setting out on projects such as fighting “to get the road paved in the Chicano part of town...
...late, anyway), or on the University’s blinkered pursuit of cosmetic (i.e. racial) pluralism at the expense of any socio-economic and intellectual diversity—both of which ought to be slightly more important than whether we decide to fund a Committee on Chicano Studies, don’t you think? Just asking...or I would be, if I were writing that kind of column...
Carrasco addressed the East Coast Chicano Students Forum as part of a weekend conference entitled “Nuestro Futuro” during which students met for a series of social, administrative and community service events...