The Real American Dirt: How Targeting Mexicans Led to Banned Chicano/Latino Books and Classes
The Real American Dirt: How Targeting Mexicans Led to Banned Chicano/Latino Books and Classes By Irene Sanchez Xicana Ph.D. The
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Why High School Graduation Remains an Important Achievement for Chicanos/Latinos
The same year my son began kindergarten was the same year I started teaching high school. After completing a Ph.D. in Education in 2015, instead of working in higher education as I anticipated, I was called to teach Ethnic Studies in high school classrooms to be in schools that sometimes feel like the “Mexican Schools” I teach about from the 1940s. As Teaching Tolerance has documented in these Mexican Schools, “Many Anglo educators did not expect, or encourage, Chicano students to advance beyond the eighth grade. Instead, the curriculum at the Mexican schools was designed, as one district superintendent put it, “to help these children take their place in society.”
25 years after Prop 187: I was a middle schooler who walked out in protest of Prop 187, now I’m a high school teacher because of it.
“I was a middle school student who walked out in protest of CA Proposition 187, Looking back 25 years later
When Ethnic Studies is Under Attack…
When Ethnic Studies is Under Attack… By Irene Sanchez Xicana Ph.D. When Ethnic Studies is under attack, you remember we’ve
You Can’t Call it What it is if You Don’t Know History: Anti-Mexican Violence in the Southwest
You Can’t Call it What it is if You Don’t Know History: Anti-Mexican Violence in the Southwest By Irene Sanchez
Breaking! AB 331 (Medina) HS Ethnic Studies Bill Passes in CA Assembly
AB 331 (Medina) HS Ethnic Studies Bill Passes in CA Assembly By Irene Sanchez (Xicana Ph.D.) On May 23, 2019,
The Myth of Meritocracy
The Myth of Meritocracy By Irene Sanchez The scandal Operation Varsity Blues has many talking about corruption in higher education
Why We Still Need Chicano/Latino Studies
Why we still need Chicanx/Latinx Studies By Irene Sanchez A student last year in my Latinx Studies class wrote, “If
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