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Los Angeles, as the writer Octavia Butler once mused in a notebook, “forms and shatters, forms and shatters.”
This has never been a place with a conventional relationship to its history.
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Where little blue plaques and carefully preserved structures have proliferated elsewhere, L.A. s official stance on the past has typically been both grander and more opaque heavily romanticized, carefully edited, booster-ized, whitewashed and perpetually repackaged in service of whatever comes next.
“We have always had our civic gaze fixed on the future,” Christopher Hawthorne, the city’s first chief design officer and a former Times architecture critic, told me. “To the extent that we have had a coherent sense of identity, it has been very much shaped by that perspective.”
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California’s new ethnic studies curriculum is being put to an early test in Orange County, where organizers are riling up parents in the Los Alamitos Unified School District to oppose elective coursework and materials they say promote divisive, anti-white rhetoric.
“These courses are filled with hate for America and all America stands for,” opponents wrote in a letter to the Los Alamitos community, adding that the curriculum “teaches children that America is based on white supremacy and that white people are racists, even if they don’t know it.” It’s an extreme view in a state that is a national leader in ethnic studies education, but the opposition is gaining a footing in some conservative corners.
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Opponents of ethnic studies in Orange County say such coursework sows divisions, but experts say it’s necessary for overcoming them.
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ethnic studies model curriculum which is intended to help educators develop classes that guide students through the histories, struggles and contributions of Asian, Black, Latino and Native American communities, among other groups was unanimously approved in March by the state Board of Education after nearly two years of discussions, protests and rewrites.
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