Latino Education Crisis: Author Meets Critic Talk, UCLA

[scillachairoj]

there is already european american studies. Its what is the called history and it is the white centered curriculum that you learn in your public elementary, middle, and high school.

[09bassman]

Sure...like the minority groups would not cry "racism" if whites did anything like having groups based on race. It's a double standard  to have groups like NCLR and the NAACP who concern themselves solely with their race, and then say white folks can't do that and it's unfair because we are the majority. If you don't think whites are discriminated against because of skin color, think again.

[09bassman]

Why can't you academics be for all students, whites, blacks, Asians and Latinos? Would European Americans be able to do the same thing you do? Why is it, what you do not prejudice? Seems like a double standard to me?

[felixzuniga]

Because there is a crisis in Education especially for Latino Students, with higher dropout rates, and lower college degree attainment than any other group.

[09bassman]

Majoring in Chicano Studies is not what I'd call an education. It's more like indoctrination. There are no European-American Majors that Ive seen. There are African-American, Native-American, and Asian-American studies, but there are no European-American studies. There is a Black Congressional Caucus and a Hispanic Caucus, but there is no European-American (or White) Caucus.

[samosx21]

Well what it seems to you isn't necessarily what is true, so i don't know where you want to go with that. There are reasons for there being majors like Chicano and African-American studies. For one, they have been all subject to vast exploitation and discrimination, I don't see how you don't see how that could bring up such programs as these to try and better relations.

[samosx21]

I would love to study European-American studies, but there needs to be people who would want such a program and it's establishment, but the purpose of it could seem a bit questionable except for it's historical purposes. Whites are a majority in the country, in numbers and power, opposed to black and brown power. That clear?

[samosx21]

Also, were you serious about the caucuses? Most of the U.S. political spectrum IS European-American (or White.) Most interns anywhere are white, (that is one huge unofficial caucus if you ask me.) You are welcomed to start an official one if you'd like, but like I said, in the past section, it doesn't seem as logical considering the numbers.

Don't take this as me attacking you or anything, just letting ya know so hopefully you can understand a little better.

[decreationlq]

LOL....this guy must have missed US history 101 and how is it considered indoctrination? Most of these programs are founded on pedagogy of criticism from white revistionist historians. You should start Euro-American studies, however, good luck not making it seem supremacist studies.