Nobody in my family was thrilled when I told them I was majoring in Raza Studies now called Latino/a Studies.
But, look at me now, mom!
Big thanks to the student activists and organizers who risked so much (and did jail time!) to make that possible.
🌟NEW EP ALERT🌟
The largest public university system in the country just announced a new requirement: Students must take an ethnic studies or social justice course. But ethnic studies might not exist if not for students who took a stand 50 years ago.
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@RadioMirage
About time, no? At the same time, all of us in Big Media must stop using the word "minority" - The word keeps us down and out, as "others." And, anyway, in many communities, we're now the collective majority.
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@Ricsand
we are doing an episode soon about all the umbrella terms for "non-white people" - and all the debate over each one - stay tuned!
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@RadioMirage
That's awesome - so glad you stayed the course!
Proud CSU took this important step. And also concerned about the "OR social justice" aspect of the requirement.
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@GeeDee215
's thoughts on the controversy underway and what is lost (or gained?).
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@RadioMirage
This is such great news. I wouldn’t be the person I am today without the social justice courses I took at Villanova University. It was the best way for me to learn about minority perspectives in a school that is a supermajority white. It should be required there too!
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@RadioMirage
Word! I heard this podcast this morning, and I loved it. Somehow, I never learned about this protest until today, and I'm 52 years old. :-)
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@RadioMirage
I taught Chican@ and Latin American literature at an HSI in a majority Latino county on the border. It
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@RadioMirage
Is that different than Chicano studies? I think that’s what it was called when I went to college. Some of my favorite classes.
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@RadioMirage
Most people from Latin America outside USA are not identified with the term "Latino". Latino in Spanish is not an adjective, not a noun. Why not "Latin American...."? "Raza" is even worse though.
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