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Direct linkKidwell, Clara Sue – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2011
When American Indian/Native American studies (AI/NAS) programs began to emerge in the halls of academia during the late 1960s and early 1970s, some who served as faculty and staff questioned whether they would be one-generation phenomena. Would the programs survive, would they continue to draw students, and could they make an impact on…
Descriptors: American Indian Studies, American Studies, American Indians, Program Descriptions
Fernandez, Anita; Hammer, Zoe – Journal of the Association of Mexican American Educators, 2012
The attack on ethnic studies in Tucson is a local struggle with broad implications. This essay poses that Arizona is a testing ground for neoliberal laws, policies and practices, including HB2281, an anti-Latin@ law banning ethnic studies courses in public schools. Given that many such political "experiments" have been successfully…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, American Studies, Politics of Education, Public Education
Ortega, Marcela Itzel – Rethinking Schools, 2013
It's funny how a single lucid moment can change so many things; a single video can light a spark for justice. That reality hit the author when her teacher, Devin Carberry, played a YouTube clip of UNIDOS, a group of students fighting to keep ethnic studies alive in Arizona. Devin brought in the documentary "Precious Knowledge," an…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Ethnic Studies, Sustainability, Documentaries
Bigelow, Bill – Rethinking Schools, 2012
"Rethinking Columbus," the book the author co-edited with Bob Peterson, had been banned in the schools of Tucson, Arizona, as part of that state's suppression of the Mexican American Studies program. The state superintendent of schools, John Huppenthal, had found the acclaimed Tucson program out of compliance with House Bill 2281, which…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, American Studies, Foreign Countries, Racial Bias
Rodriguez, Roberto Cintli – Rethinking Schools, 2010
Students at Tucson High School in Arizona, part of Tucson Unified School District's highly successful Mexican American Studies (MAS) K-12 program, the largest in the nation, are taught Indigenous concepts, including Panche Be (seek the root of the truth), and the Aztec and Maya calendars. The author speaks to the students about the relationship…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Mexican American Education, American Studies, Indigenous Knowledge
