Ethnic Studies Threatened in Texas
Ethnic Studies Threatened in Texas
By Victor Landa, NewsTaco On a typical day there aren’t many Latinos walking around in front of the Alamo in downtown San Antonio, TX. Aside from the Latino raspa vendors, […]
Exclusion of Ethnic Studies Robs Latino Children of Pride
By Stephen A. Nuño, NBCLatino Conservative leaders seem intent on ensuring that Latinos grow up without a sense of pride in their identity. The historical roots of our relationship with the […]
TX Legislators Would Cut Ethnic Studies in College Requirements
By Jacquellena Carrero, NBCLatino Students at public universities in Texas may no longer be able to take courses focusing on racial, ethnic or gender history to fulfill their core requirements for […]
Tucson Latino Students Win 40 Year Court Battle
PRESS RELEASE Court Orders Tucson School District To Reinstate Culturally Relevant Curriculum That Reflects The History, Culture and Experiences of Mexican Americans TUCSON, AZ – Yesterday Judge David C. Bury ruled […]
Fight For Mexican American Studies About The Future, Our Children
By Matt Mendez, Librotraficante.com I am waiting for Marjorie Ann — my wife, Marlo, is seven months pregnant with her. Our soon-to-arrive daughter is named after her grandmother, my wife’s […]
The Case For Arizona’s White Appreciation Day
Arizona State Representative Cecil Ash proposed that Arizona create a White Appreciation Day when whites are no longer the majority in the state. Many are in awe that Ash only […]
Tucson Book Ban Is Just More Anti-Latino Rhetoric
By Richard G. Santos The State of Arizona has been foremost in anti-Mexican American legislation, ordinances and rhetoric in recent years. National boycotts and the U.S. Department of Justice and […]
Censorship In Arizona: Who’s Afraid Of An Educated Latino?
By Nicole Cipri In December, Arizona lawmakers passed the controversial bill known as HB2281, which banned ethnic studies in the Tuscon Unified School District. Last week, while students watched in stunned silence, […]
Texas Group Aims To “Smuggle” Latino Literature Back Into AZ
The video shows a man hanging out in front of the trunk of a car filled with books you may recognize, books about Latinos, books written by Latinos. He says […]
Tucson Students Walk Out Over Mexican American Studies Ban
High school students in Tucson, Arizona walked out of their classrooms Monday in protest over the ban on Mexican American studies in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) recently. NewsTaco […]
