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- noun Mexicans or Mexican Americans considered as a group, sometimes extending to all Spanish-speaking people of the Americas.
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Can someone tell me what La Raza translates as in english?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Sotomayor’s Lecture, “A Latina Judge’s Voice”: 2009
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Meanwhile here and elsewhere perfectly respectable organizations like La Raza are assaulted as being racist fringe groups by people who, in some cases, had not heard the term La Raza until this month.
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Can someone tell me what La Raza translates as in english?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Sotomayor’s Lecture, “A Latina Judge’s Voice”: 2009
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I actually think Tancredo made a good, albeit completely inadvertant, point when he called La Raza "a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses."
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Tom Tancredo calls La Raza, which is a pretty ordinary advocacy group, "a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses."
Political Animal 2009
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La Raza, which is expected to announce its plans early next week, may be betting that a large and effective boycott of Arizona can change the appetite in Washington and pave the way for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.
Protesters of Arizona's new immigration law try to focus boycotts Krissah Thompson 2010
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La Raza, which is expected to announce its plans early next week, may be betting that a large and effective boycott of Arizona can change the appetite in Washington and pave the way for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.
Protesters of Arizona's new immigration law try to focus boycotts 2010
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If you belong to an organization called La Raza, in this case, which is, from my point of view anyway, nothing more than a Latino - it's a counterpart - a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses.
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TOM TANCREDO (R), COLORADO: If you belong to an organization called La Raza in this case, which is, from my point of view anyway, is nothing more than a Latino -- it's a counterpart -- it's a Latino KKK without the hoods and/or the nooses.
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The reality is that Yzaguirre alienates many American citizens of Hispanic descent in other words, those qualified to vote with his so-called La Raza rhetoric, which has been repeatedly labeled racist.
"The bigoted past of Ron Paul." Ann Althouse 2008
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