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Every Week Is Banned Books Week For Chicanos
*Tony Diaz: “Once you read a banned book, they can never take it away from you.” By Tony Diaz, NewsTaco Every week is banned books week for Chicanos. In Arizona, […]
Chicana Films Need to be Included in Mexican American Studies Curricula
*Why should Chicana films be included in Mexican American Studies? Here’s why, with a list of films to watch. VL By Linda Garcia Merchant, Newstaco I finally met Tony Diaz in person, […]
Texas State Board of Education Sabotages Ethnic Studies Textbooks.
PRESS RELEASE Mexican Americans Stand Up Against Institutionalized Racism. Houston, TX (July 17, 2014)-It took The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) only 3 months to turn proclamation 2016 into […]
Open Letter to Latin@ Leaders Concerning Net Neutrality
Dear Latin@ Leader: From protest songs, to news stories, to campaigns for social change, our community has long understood that the right and power to tell our own stories is […]
Why Mexican-American Studies Is ‘Going To Spread Like Wildfire’ In Texas
*Texas now has the “green light” to adopt Mexican-American studies texts. It could have the effect of opening the flood gates to classes across the state. VL By Roque Planas, Huffington […]
More Texas Educators Throw Support Behind Mexican-American Studies
*The fight for Mexican-American studies in Texas intensifies. The state Board of Education is set for a vote on the matter on April 9. Republican members of the board are […]
Texas State Board of Education Plans Mexican-American History Course
By Patrick Michels, The Texas Observer Last fall, hundreds of protesters gathered at the University of Texas at Austin after a student group announced it would stage a game of “Catch an […]
Latino Activists Want Texas Schools To Address ‘Institutionalized Racism’
By Roque Planas, Huffington Post Latino Voices Latino activists in Texas are demanding a public school curriculum that reflects the student body, calling on the State Board of Education to […]
On Hispanic Heritage Month, a spotlight on Chicano authors
By Claudio Iván Remeseira, NBCLatino In 1970, when Chicano hit the bookshelves, there was just one similarly themed novel published by a major U.S. imprint: José Antonio Villareal’s Pocho. The author of Chicano, Richard […]
Banned Book Week: INVISIBLE MAN VISIBLE Beams Brighter
By Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante “We are adding INVISIBLE MAN to all Librotraficante Under Ground Libraries.” There are 1,000 ironies in that sentence, which is even shorter than a tweet. On […]