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Ethnic Studies Redux: Professor Rudy Acuña Still Has Work to Do
By: Jeff Biggers, Common Dreams – March 23, 2021 The pandemic is not an excuse for mediocrity," declared Dr. Rodolfo "Rudy" Acuña, as he worked on another commentary in a rigorous writing ... -
California adopts Ethnic Studies Curriculum
By NINA AGRAWAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES – MARCH 18, 2021 Ending years-long and often divisive debate over ethnic studies coursework in California’s K-12 schools, the State Board of Education on Thursday ... -
A final vote for California's controversial ethnic studies curriculum
BY: JOHN FENSTERWALD, EDSource – MARCH 17, 2021 On Thursday, the State Board of Education will adopt an Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum for high schools that is four years, four ... -
Tribes welcome Haalands rise to Interior Secretary
By ANNA M. PHILLIPS, LOS ANGELES – MARCH 15, 2021 WASHINGTON — On Monday, Rep. Deb Haaland became the first Native American confirmed to serve in the president’s Cabinet — a ... -
How California's latest ethnic studies curriculum is letting down the students it's supposed to help
By: Larry Christian (Op-Ed), San Diego Tribune – March 11, 2021 The State Board of Education will soon consider new recommendations for creating an ethnic studies model curriculum for California’s ... -
What Americans don’t know about Latino history could fill a museum
By STEPHEN PITTI, LOS ANGELES TIMES ~ DEC. 16, 2020 On Thursday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) blocked a bipartisan congressional effort to establish a new Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino, ... -
Altamed’s COVID response in the Latino community and Book “Chicano Boom”
Hispanics have been disproportionately hurt by the coronavirus pandemic due to their jobs as essential workers and multigenerational living conditions. In California, Latinos represent 60% of Covid cases and nearly ... -
Who will teach Ethnic Studies?
California State University will require students to take ethnic studies, but the faculty and system remain divided over how to put the new requirement into place. By Colleen Flaherty, Inside ... -
“In Memory of the Legendary Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones: Chicano Scholar, Activist and Poet”
“Anti-Mexicanism is a form of nativism practiced by colonialists and their inheritors.” —Dr. Juan Gómez-Quiñones (2017) By Álvaro Huerta, Ph.D., Latino Rebels ~ November 13, 2020 Image Credit: “Dr. Juan ... -
Primera Cátedra de Estudios Chicanos y la Diáspora Mexicana
Primera Cátedra de Estudios Chicanos y la Diáspora Mexicana: “El impacto Histórico de la Revolución Mexicana para el Pueblo Mexicano en Estados Unidos” El viernes 20 de Noviembre de 2020 ...
