Tucson School District Releases List of Banned Ethnic Studies Books, Includes Shakespeare

www.democracynow.org - In news from Arizona, Tucson school district officials have released an initial list of books to be banned from the school system following last weeks' vote to suspend the district's acclaimed Mexican American Studies program due to a state ban on the teaching of ethnic studies. The banned books include: "Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years" edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson; Shakespeare's play "The Tempest"; "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paolo Freire; "Occupied America: A History of Chicanos" by Rodolfo Acuña; and "Chicano!: The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement" by F. Arturo Rosales. Salon.com reported teachers have also been informed to stay away from any books where "race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes."

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[rictusgate]

"Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past."

George Orwell - 1984

[enticed2zeitgeist]

How did America become such a shit hole. From top to bottom in less than a century!

[cervusadfontes]

Books where "race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes" banned? To kill a Mockingbird? Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn? Schindler's List? The Gulag Archipelago? The Bible?

How are these people in charge of anything?

[youknowimright1]

Banning shakespear, are they mad? The quintessential figure of civilisation and culture banned, this is the worst crime against humanity I have ever heard, to dispose of something due to the fact you disagree with the idea, ideology or history, this school should be made an example out of and the people responsible fired. Anything that is provocative is good if it entices free thought.

[BHDread]

We have been feeling this in "vibration" so to speak for the last 20 years in NJ. People are discouraged to communicate about TRUE HISTORY and religion....you ever wonder ...WHY???

[Diego D]

Wow

[ma77hew7720]

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[Licmycat]

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[Licmycat]

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[Ersa1a]

It's been just over ten years since I could be remotely proud to be an American. Arizona, like Texas (for the most part) is a national embarrassment.

[Ersa1a]

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