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January162012
Indian Country Today Media Network:
Shakespeare and Native American Authors Among Those Banned from Tucson Schools
As part of its compliance with a state ban on ethnic studies, the Tucson Unified School District has banned its Mexican American Studies program and a number of books including The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years, which includes pieces by various Native American authors including Suzan Shown Harjo, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joseph Bruchac, Leslie Marmon Silko and Winona LaDuke.
“By ordering teachers to remove Rethinking Columbus, the Tucson school district has shown tremendous disrespect for teachers and students,” said the book’s editor Bill Bigelow. “It offers teaching strategies and readings that teachers can use to help students think about the perspectives that are too often silenced in the traditional curriculum.”
Other books banned include Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and Occupied America: A History of Chicanos by Rodolfo Acuña.
Removing the banned books wasn’t done quietly. In a(nother) YouTube video…a group of Mexican American Studies students discusses how the ban on classes and books has affected them. One student said seeing the books being taken away was “disheartening…just watching them box them all up is definitely Nazi Germany-like.” Someone off camera noted that officials seemed to be “rubbing it in their faces” by taking the books away during school hours.
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Yolanda Sotelo, a Mexican American Studies teacher at Pueblo High School in (Tucson, Arizona), speaks about the books by Chicano(a) authors she can no longer teach.
Tags: /yolanda sotelo /tucson /arizona /book banning /mexican amerian studies /chicano/a literature
