"Outlawing Shakespeare: The Battle for the Tucson Mind"

Great seeing this short documentary on the struggle for Mexican American Studies in the Tucson Unified School District. It presages all of what we are today seeing in the national arena with attacks on curriculum, book bans, and even librarians. 

As author Steve Phillips terms it, we are witnessing both a "browning America," and a fear of it. 

It is this fear that undergirds the attacks we are witnessing against our communities' voting rights. Dolores Huerta is explicit about this in this film. Others, too, but she is the most direct.

This short documentary is a good refresher on the argument against Mexican American Studies, and students', community members' and teachers' responses to it.

-Angela Valenzuela