Arizona Ethnic Studies Classes Banned, Teachers With Accents Can No Longer Teach English.

[amb123]

Arizona's new immigration law is just about crime, its supporters say, but given that the state's new education policy equates ethnic studies programs with high treason, they may not be using the commonly accepted definition of "crime."

Under the ban, sent to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer by the state legislature Thursday, schools will lose state funding if they offer any courses that "promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, promote resentment of a particular race or class of people, are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/arizona-ethnic-studies-cl_n_558731.html

And it's going to get worse.

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. -1

[Myrina]

2. ... and yet that's exactly what the new laws do ....

"... promote resentment of a particular race or class of people" and "... advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals."


WTF is going on down there???

[atreides1]

4. That's easy

This is what the majority of the voters of Arizona want!

[patrick t. cakes]

3. boy, something sure weaseled into AZ.

root it out!

[atreides1]

5. Not really

It's always been there. It's just coming out into the open, and the real feelings of the majority as indicated by the State Legislature, is rearing it's ugly racist head.

[MattBaggins]

13. Jackasses from New York moved to Arizona.

I'm a jackass from New York who stayed in New York.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. I think I just figured it out -

with the dearth of republican presidential candidates, John McCain has decided to try again, and this is all a plot to make him look sane by comparison.

[woolldog]

7. Has Arizona always been this racist?

I know for a long time they didn't recognize MLK day. What's in the water down there?

[whathehell]

8. OMG..What the hell IS in the water down there?...or is it the air?

They don't have a lot of water so I'm thinking of alternatives...Freaking A!!

..To think I was actually thinking of MOVING there at one point in my life! :scared:

[LiberalFighter]

9. Too many retire to AZ. They mix the Metamucil in with the water.

[whathehell]

10. As good an explanation as any!

It's unfortunate, because, like much of the west, it IS beautiful country.

Thank God "our side" still has (most of) California!

[ceile]

11. They have lost their minds....

[dana_b]

12. great comment:

"The Definition of ETHNIC

"pertaining to or characteristic of a people, especially a
group sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion,
language, or the like."

So...

No English history.
No French History.
No Foreign Language Classes.
No English literature.
No French Cooking Classes.
No European Classical Music.
No Shakespeare.
No Canterburry Tales.
No Beowulf.
No Biblical studies.
No Tolkin, no Narnia.
No Archeology.
No Etymology studies"

Good one!!!

[Shallah Kali]

14. No American history then as it's chock full of Caucasian-Americans

might get those Caucasian-American kids all ethnic solidarity thingy and want to overthrow the government or something :sarcasm:

Eurocentrism Reigns Supreme: Arizona Bans Ethnic Studies

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/04/30/eurocentrism-reigns-supreme-arizons-bans-ethnic-studies/

The classroom is and has always been a political space.

This is a textbook example of Eurocentrism and Whiteness in action–and the irony here is priceless. Pursuant to this new law, children of color and their parents in Arizona should sue to demand that funding be cut off to most public schools because from American history to English to Science and the Arts, the curriculum as presently taught devalues people of color, encourages White solidarity, is designed to reinforce Whiteness as the “normal” and “preeminent” state of being, and generates resentment on the part of those left out of America’s grand narrative.
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Last week Arizona instituted draconian laws that were designed to curb illegal immigration. In an effort to one up themselves, the state legislature has now passed a resolution banning “Ethnic Studies” programs in public schools. Once more, for those of you who are not connecting the dots between white racial resentment and the Tea Party movement; resurgent White Nationalism in the moments since Obama’s election; and White anxiety about the “browning of America,” here is another data point.

When the tea baggers and the Vox Right Wing Populi harp on about taking “their America back,” those dead-enders do in fact want to take America back to the good old days when black and brown folk were silent and obedient–at least as seen by the gaze of the White imagination: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQNQvyuGt0o&feature=player_embedded

Although this bill is initially limited to public schools, one should make careful note of the language. “Ethnic Studies” is a particular nomenclature that applies almost exclusively to colleges and universities. On one hand, as someone who loosely works in Ethnic Studies I am emboldened and pleased that the essentially political nature of our work is identified as such by our enemies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTaLZY4SmFI&feature=player_embedded