Save Arab American Studies! – Mondoweiss
Students raise their fist in solidarity with the Third World Liberation Front 2016, the name of the four students on a hunger strike to defend the funding of the SF State College of Ethnic Studies, during an emergency press conference in the Quad Monday, May 9, 2016. (Photo: Melissa Minton/Creative Commons/Flikr) In a struggle that is eerily similar to the battle for the Mexican American Studies program in Tucson a decade ago, teachers, students, and community activists in California are fighting to defend the content and pedagogy of ethnic studies. Their opposition? California politicians an...
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