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Countdown in Arizona: Todos somos Raza Studies
- 09-30-2010
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Commentary by Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez/New America Media Roberto Rodriguez, a professor at the University of Arizona and a member of the Mexican-American Studies Community Advisory Board
The lines have been drawn. Or rather, the date has been set and the countdown has begun. If Arizona State Schools Superintendent Tom Horne has his way, after Dec. 31, 2010, Tucson Unified School District’s (TUSD) highly successful Mexican-American Studies K-12 department will cease to exist. But despite Gov. Jan Brewer having signed HB 2281, the anti–ethnic studies measure, in May, those who support Raza Studies have good reason to feel confident that on January 1, the program will be alive and well. HB 2281 bans schools from teaching hate, anti-Americanism and the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Horne, the measure's “intellectual author,” claims that Raza Studies advocates these ideas and promotes “ethnic solidarity” that results in racial segregation in schools. In fact, in Raza Studies students are taught the arts, language, philosophy and other concepts associated with Mesoamerican peoples whose cultures derived from maiz. (more…)
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