Arizona Ethnic Studies

Anger Reignited Over Arizona's Ethnic Studies Ban

AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 04.11.2012

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PHOENIX -- An Arizona school district's decision to oust the director of a dismantled Mexican-American studies program and a recent segment on a TV co...

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Ethnic Studies: Tell the Truth or Promote Ignorance

Larry Strauss | Posted 05.16.2012

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If the truth about who we are and what we've done makes people angry, do we really soothe that anger by covering up the truth?

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It Gets Better, Dear Tucson Students (VIDEO)

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.08.2012

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The trauma and stress over the dismantling of the Mexican American Studies program, including the confiscation of books in front of young middle school and high school students, has never been addressed by Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) officials.

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Has Tucson School District Become Little Rock, Arkansas 1954? New Court Suit on Segregation Violations Over Mexican American Studies Crackdown

Jeff Biggers | Posted 04.04.2012

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The questions beg: How much lower and blatantly racist will Tucson school officials go? Will Tucson community leaders, like Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, stand by and watch the reckless measures of "demagogic extremists"?

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Books Allegedly Banned From High School Being Smuggled Back To Arizona

The Huffington Post | Laura Steiner | Posted 02.02.2012

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A caravan of cars, full of activists and writers will be heading soon from Houston, Texas, to Tucson, Arizona. It's cargo: books that were alleged...

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Immigration Politics: More Than Jobs

John Tirman | Posted 03.28.2012

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What is striking about the Republican candidates' rote denunciations of the "illegals" and the federal government is how completely fact-free the campaign rhetoric has become.

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Arizona and the Tyrannical Melting Pot

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 03.26.2012

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House Bill 2281, signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, targets public school districts' ethnic studies programs. We need to look at the Arizona law in historical perspective.

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Breaking: The "Madness" of the Tucson Book Ban: Interview With Mexican American Studies Teacher Curtis Acosta on The Tempest

Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.18.2012

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Scholars and educators from across the country have hailed Tucson's MAS program as "the nation's most innovative and successful academic and instructional program in Ethnic Studies at the secondary school level."

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Up Is Down and Down Is up -- Alice in America's Wonderland

Steve Nelson | Posted 03.16.2012

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The recent decision to axe an ethnic studies program in Tucson is symptomatic of a bewildering turn of events in our country.

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Arizona Schools' Ethnic Studies Program Ruled Illegal

AP | By JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 12.28.2011

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PHOENIX -- An administrative law judge ruled Tuesday that a Tucson school district's ethnic studies program violates state law, agreeing with the find...

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American Pastorela in Arizona Premieres: Ethnic Studies Witchhunt Farce Takes the Stage

Jeff Biggers | Posted 02.08.2012

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What better form of theatrical art than the farce to capture the absurdity of the Arizona state officials' infamous witch hunt of Tucson's embattled Ethnic Studies program?

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AZ Ethnic Studies Showdown: As Teachers Heal Tucson, Will Extremist Officials Escalate Crisis This Week?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.07.2011

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Soundly debunking the state's charges that the program teaches children to "overthrow the government" and promote ethnic chauvinism, university scholars and administrators explained the widely accepted approach of culturally relevant curriculum.

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College-Bound Students Defy Arizona's Witch Hunt with Boycott: Exclusive Interview with Ethnic Studies Students

Jeff Biggers | Posted 06.12.2011

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There will be a row of empty seats at tonight's Tucson Unified School District board meeting. Outraged by the lack of consideration of student concerns, the "UNIDOS" coalition has called for a boycott of the school district's meeting.

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Arizona's Witch Hunt of Mexican/Ethnic Studies Begins This Week?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Only days after the Arizona state legislature voted for punishing budget cuts in education, the now infamous audit of Tucson Unified School District's Mexican American/Ethnic Studies program is readying to commence.

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Arizona's Long Dark Night Continues

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

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Perhaps not since the full-on throes of the Civil Rights era has a single state been so beset by crisis, conflict, and now catastrophe.

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Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies and, Along With it, Reason and Justice

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

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While much condemnation has rightly been expressed toward Arizona's anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, a potentially more insidious measure, is set to take effect on January 1, 2011.

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Cultural Studies in Arizona

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Erasing Arizona: Dark-skinned Mural Faces Ordered "Lightened" to Appease Bigotry

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is difficult to fully explain the impacts of Arizona's burgeoning and overt anti-immigrant climate these days. To outsiders it must seem like eithe...

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Arizona Erasing History to Promote Racism Today

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shortly after signing SB 1070, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed HB2281 targeting Ethnic Studies programs, even after the measure was condemned in a ...

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Welcome to Arizona : "It's a Dry Hate..."

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

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We ought to strive to turn this crisis into an opportunity to overcome fear and hatred. We are quite likely in the throes of a new civil rights movement in America.

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A People's History of Arizona: What Would Howard Zinn Say?

Ian Moss | Posted 05.25.2011

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While clad in the rhetoric of equality, these latest pieces of legislation represent anything but. Instead, both the immigration and the ethnic studies laws themselves represent ethnic chauvinism by the Arizona state government.

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Ethnic Studies

August J. Pollak | Posted 05.25.2011

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Giving students the right idea about white people. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive....

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This Week in Bigotry

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

1. In an attempt to "rebrand" Arizona, whose recent immigration law has been called racist, Governor Jan Brewer bans teaching ethnic studies.

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Fighting Chauvinism, Really? Ethnic Studies, Republican Politics and Arizona's Future

Jeff Chang | Posted 05.25.2011

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With HB 2281, Horne and Brewer have not even pretended to do anything that is pedagogically useful. In the name of fighting "chauvinism", they have not even pretended to welcome reasoned debate.

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The Legacy of White Christian Chauvinism in Arizona's Ethnic Studies Bill

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mainstream Christianity rests on the belief in an historical Jesus. By any American standards, this living, breathing man would have been classified as "white" -- swarthy yes, but white.

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