Monday, May 7, 2012

List of Books Used in the Mexican American Program at Tucson, AZ

A comprehensive set of links to the American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) coverage of the Arizona law that led to the shutdown of the Mexican American Studies Program in Arizona and the subsequent banning of books used in the program. It will be updated as the coverage continues.




Sunday, April 15, 2012

Exhibition of the Chicano Books Banned in Tucson, Arizona

First, the Tucson School District went after the
Mexican American studies program.
Now, it's going after its books.

On Display
Chicano Books Banned in Tucson, Arizona

San Diego City College Library
Next to the Circulation Desk
April 17-30




Invite your students!



Sunday, March 18, 2012

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

Jan 18, 2012
In Arizona, Tucson school district officials have released a list of books to be banned from the school system following last week’s 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 initially included "Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years," edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson; Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest"; "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire; "Occupied America: A History of Chicanos" by Rodolfo Acuña; and "Chicano!: The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement" by F. Arturo Rosales.



Later, the list was expanded. Tucson school district officials ordered to confiscate teaching materials, artwork, posters, and more books. Officials said the books were not banned, but the confiscation happened – in some cases, in front of the students – involved more than 50 books. The books are “not banned” (but merely “confiscated”). They have been removed from the classrooms and boxed. It’s as if the presence of these books inside classrooms constitutes a distraction or bad influence. Apparently, students should not be able to even see those books in the classrooms. They include:



  • Critical Race Theory, by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
  • 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, edited by Elizabeth Martinez
  • Message to Aztlán, by Rodolfo Corky Gonzales
  • Chicano! The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement, by F Arturo Rosales
  • Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, by Rodolfo Acuña
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire
  • Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years, by Bill Bigelow
  • The Tempest, by Shakespeare



The MAS-TUSD curriculum comprises some 50 books. All have been or are being removed or confiscated from every classroom; teachers are being told to turn in the books that have not been “confiscated”. This might strike the average person as odd: it’s as if the presence of these books inside classrooms constitutes a distraction or bad influence. Apparently, students should not be able to even see those books in the classrooms.



Teachers have also been informed to stay away from any books where "race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes."
Democracy Now.Com, Tucson Citizens.Com

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Books Conquered by the Spanish


Fray Diego de Landa destroying Maya books.
Yucatan, Mexico

A List of “Undocumented,” Banned Books in Tucson Schools


The Mexican American Studies curriculum at Tucson School District comprises some 50 books. All have been or are being removed or confiscated from every classroom; teachers are being told to turn in the books. They were told their books have not been “confiscated,” just “packed.” This might strike the average person as odd: it’s as if the presence of these books inside classrooms constitutes a distraction or bad influence. Apparently, students should not be able to even see those books in the classrooms.

AMERICAN GOVERNMENT/SOCIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION PROJECT 1 & 2

Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years
B. Bigelow & B. Peterson
The Latino Condition: A critical Reader
R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
R. Delgado & J. Stefancic
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
P. Freire
United States Government: Democracy in Action
R.C. Remy
Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History
F.A Rosales
Declarations of Independene: Cross-Examining American Ideology
H. Zinn

AMERICAN HISTORY/MEXICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES, 1&2

Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
R. Acuna
The Anaya Reader
R. Anaya
The American Vision
J. Appleby et el.
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years
B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo
by J. A. Burciaga
Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings
C. Jiminez
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views Multi-Colored Century
E. S. Martinez
500 Anos Del Pueblo Chicano/500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures
E. S. Martinez
Codex Tamuanchan: On Becoming Human
R. Rodriguez
The X in La Raza II
R. Rodriguez
Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History
F. A. Rosales
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
H. Zinn

ENGLISH/LATINO LITERATURE 7 & 8

Ten Little Indians
S. Alexie
The Fire Next Time
J. Baldwin
Loverboys
A. Castillo
Women Hollering Creek
S. Cisneros
Mexican WhiteBoy
M. De La Pena
Drown
J. Diaz
Woodcuts of Women
D. Gilb
At the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria
E. Guevara
Color Lines: "Does Anti-War Have to Be Anti-Racist Too?"
E. Martinez
Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy
R. Montoya et al.
Let Their Spirits Dance
S. Pope Durate
Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz
M. Ruiz
The Tempest
W Shakespeare
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
R. Takaki
The Devil's Highway
L.A. Urrea
Puro Teatro: A Latino Anthology
A. Sandoval-Sanchez & N. Saporta Sternbach
Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast: Stories
J Yolen
Voices of a People's History of the United States
H. Zinn

ENGLISH/LATINO LITERATURE 5 & 6

Live from Death Row
J. Abu-Jamal
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven
S. Alexie
Zorro
I. Allende
Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza
G. Anzaldua
A Place to Stand
J. S. Baca
C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans
J. S. Baca
Healing Earthquakes: Poems
J. S. Baca
Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems
J. S. Baca
Black Mesa Poems
J. S. Baca
Martin & Mediations on the South Valley
J. S. Baca
The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools
D. C. Berliner and B. J. Biddle
Drink Cultura: Chicanismo
J. A Burciaga
Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States
L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos
Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States
L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos
So Far From God
A Castillo
Address to the Commonwealth Club of California
C. E. Chavez
Women Hollering Creek
S. Cisneros
House on Mango Street
S. Cisneros
Drown
J. Diaz
Suffer Smoke
E. Diaz Bjorkquist
Zapata's Discipline: Essays
Martin Espada
Like Water for Chocolate
L. Esquievel
When Living was a Labor Camp
D. Garcia
La Llorona: Our Lady of Deformities
R. Garcia
Cantos Al Sexto Sol: Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writing
C. Garcia-Camarilo, et al
The Magic of Blood
D. Gilb
Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings
Rudulfo "Corky" Gonzales
Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education, Saying No to "No Child Left Behind"
Goodman, et al.
Feminism is for Everbody
B. Hooks
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
R. Jimenez
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
J. Kozol
Zigzagger
M. Munoz
Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature
T. D. Rebolledo & E. S. Rivero
…y no se lo trago la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
T. Rivera
Always Running - La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
L. Rodriguez
Justice: A Question of Race
R. Rodriguez
The X in La Raza II
R. Rodriguez
Crisis in American Institutions
S. H. Skolnick & E. Currie
Los Tuconenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941
T. Sheridan
Curandera
Carmen Tafallo
Mexican American Literature
C. M. Tatum
New Chicana/Chicano Writing
C. M. Tatum
Civil Disobedience
H. D. Thoreau
By the Lake of Sleeping Children
L. A. Urrea
Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
L. A. Urrea
Zoot Suit and Other Plays
L. Valdez
Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert
O. Zepeda

OTHER BANNED BOOKS

Bless Me Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
Yo Soy Joaquin/ I Am Joaquin
Rodolfo Gonzales
Into the Beautiful North
Luis Alberto Urrea
The Devil's Highway
Luis Alberto Urrea