Word: xix
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Half course (to be repeated every single semester) Wed.-Wed., 8-6. (XIX...
...crime, violence, disease and the disintegration of a so-called "common American culture." For example, in 1876, California adopted an anti-immigrant constitution which describes undocumented people as "aliens, who are or may become vagrants, paupers, mendicants, criminals or invalids afflicted with contagious or infectious diseases" (Section I, Article XIX). Clearly Proposition 187 is another moment in California's long history of immigrant bashing, a moment of such profound urgency that it demands our immediate attention. As members of the Harvard community, we denounce Proposition 187 as a racist, ethnocentric and inhumane measure for which we must all take responsibility...