----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Debbie Reese <dreese.nambe at GMAIL.COM> To: ASAIL-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2012 5:31 AM Subject: Banned/boxed books/Info on National Teach In
Good morning,
Below is the list of over 50 books that were banned/boxed up in Tucson. Howard Zinn is on it. So is James Baldwin, and Jane Yolen, and bell hooks.
According to teachers in the Mexican American Studies Department, any books mentioned in the Cambium Audit or in the Kowal findings was boxed up as evidence that the MAS program was in violation of the ethnic studies law in Arizona that says a program may not
1) promote the overthrow of the US government
2) promote resentment to a race or class of people (as I understand it, "class" refers to socioeconomic status)
3) being designed primarily for one ethnic group,
4) advocating ethnic solidarity instead of treating pupils as individuals
Publicly, the Tucson Unified School District issued a statement saying only 7 books and the contents of a file cabinet were removed, but teachers say otherwise. And, they are being monitored to make sure that they don't say anything or tie anything to "a Mexican American perspective." TUSC admin says there are copies of the books in the libraries and students are free to reach them if they want to. And, they say the books aren't banned, they're just being boxed up because the courses they were used in are no longer being taught, so the books aren't needed.
Below is a link to the National Teach In site. Please go there, and plan some action this month, and please forward this email to teachers and community organizers.
Thanks, Debbie
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No History is Illegal http://www.teacheractivistgroups.org/tucson/
Book list:
High School Course Texts and Reading Lists Table 20: American Government/Social Justice Education Project 1, 2 - Texts and Reading Lists
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (2001), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2000), by P. Freire United States Government: Democracy in Action (2007), by R. C. Remy Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006), by F. A. Rosales Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1990), by H. Zinn
Table 21: American History/Mexican American Perspectives, 1, 2 - Texts and Reading Lists
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2004), by R. Acuna The Anaya Reader (1995), by R. Anaya The American Vision (2008), by J. Appleby et el. Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992), by J. A. Burciaga Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (1997), by C. Jiminez De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views Multi-Colored Century (1998), by E. S. Martinez 500 Anos Del Pueblo Chicano/500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures (1990), by E. S. Martinez Codex Tamuanchan: On Becoming Human (1998), by R. Rodriguez The X in La Raza II (1996), by R. Rodriguez Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006), by F. A. Rosales A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (2003), by H. Zinn
Course: English/Latino Literature 7, 8
Ten Little Indians (2004), by S. Alexie The Fire Next Time (1990), by J. Baldwin Loverboys (2008), by A. Castillo Women Hollering Creek (1992), by S. Cisneros Mexican WhiteBoy (2008), by M. de la Pena Drown (1997), by J. Diaz Woodcuts of Women (2000), by D. Gilb At the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria (1965), by E. Guevara Color Lines: "Does Anti-War Have to Be Anti-Racist Too?" (2003), by E. Martinez Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy (1998), by R. Montoya et al. Let Their Spirits Dance (2003) by S. Pope Duarte Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997), by M. Ruiz The Tempest (1994), by W. Shakespeare A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993), by R. Takaki The Devil's Highway (2004), by L. A. Urrea Puro Teatro: A Latino Anthology (1999), by A. Sandoval-Sanchez & N. Saporta Sternbach Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast: Stories (1997), by J. Yolen Voices of a People's History of the United States (2004), by H. Zinn
Course: English/Latino Literature 5, 6
Live from Death Row (1996), by J. Abu-Jamal The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven (1994), by S. Alexie Zorro (2005), by I. Allende Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1999), by G. Anzaldua A Place to Stand (2002), by J. S. Baca C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), by J. S. Baca Healing Earthquakes: Poems (2001), by J. S. Baca Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems (1990), by J. S. Baca Black Mesa Poems (1989), by J. S. Baca Martin & Mediations on the South Valley (1987), by J. S. Baca The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools (19950, by D. C. Berliner and B. J. Biddle Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992), by J. A Burciaga Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States (2005), by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States (1995), by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos So Far From God (1993), by A. Castillo Address to the Commonwealth Club of California (1985), by C. E. Chavez Women Hollering Creek (1992), by S. Cisneros House on Mango Street (1991), by S. Cisneros Drown (1997), by J. Diaz Suffer Smoke (2001), by E. Diaz Bjorkquist Zapata's Discipline: Essays (1998), by M. Espada Like Water for Chocolate (1995), by L. Esquievel When Living was a Labor Camp (2000), by D. Garcia La Llorona: Our Lady of Deformities (2000), by R. Garcia Cantos Al Sexto Sol: An Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writing (2003), by C. Garcia-Camarilo, et al. The Magic of Blood (1994), by D. Gilb Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (2001), by Rudolfo "Corky" Gonzales Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education, Saying No to "No Child Left Behind" (2004) by Goodman, et al. Feminism is for Everybody (2000), by b hooks The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1999), by F. Jimenez Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1991), by J. Kozol Zigzagger (2003), by M. Munoz Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (1993), by T. D. Rebolledo & E. S. Rivero ...y no se lo trago la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1995), by T. Rivera Always Running - La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (2005), by L. Rodriguez Justice: A Question of Race (1997), by R. Rodriguez The X in La Raza II (1996), by R. Rodriguez Crisis in American Institutions (2006), by S. H. Skolnick & E. Currie Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941 (1986), by T. Sheridan Curandera (1993), by Carmen Tafolla Mexican American Literature (1990), by C. M. Tatum New Chicana/Chicano Writing (1993), by C. M. Tatum Civil Disobedience (1993), by H. D. Thoreau By the Lake of Sleeping Children (1996), by L. A. Urrea Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life (2002), by L. A. Urrea Zoot Suit and Other Plays (1992), by L. Valdez Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (1995), by O. Zepeda
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Debbie Reese, Ph.D. Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Publisher of American Indians in Children's Literature Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/debreese Email: dreese.nambe at gmail.com
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Debbie Reese, Ph.D. Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Publisher of American Indians in Children's Literature Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/debreese Email: dreese.nambe at gmail.com