Dancing with Bigotry: The Poisoning of Racial and Ethnic Identities

Harvard Educational Review

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 222-246

  Bartolome, Lilia I ^a   Macedo, Donaldo P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

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EID: 0031506144     PISSN: 00178055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17763/haer.67.2.p1066147824v8l8t     Document Type: Article

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50. From "I Love America!", a poem distributed in May 1995 to California Legislators by State Assemblyman William J. Knight. Quoted in Dan Morain and Hank Gladstone, "Racist Verse Stirs Up Anger in Assembly," Los Angeles Times, May 19, 1993, p. 3. The California Journal, 24, No. 7 (1993), 42-43, included the following abstract concerning this poem: GOP Assemblyman Pete Knight of Palmdale CA distributed a poem to Assembly Republicans in May 1993 that may have been the most offensive sliver of verse publicly distributed by a member inside the confines of the state Capitol since the end of WWII. The distribution of the racist poem about illegal Latino immigrants is discussed.
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