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79How to Teach Social Justice Throughout the Year: Multicultural Books, Songs, Videos and Websites for Children
Often social justice is limited to the study of one person, movement or people. Too often children are exposed to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or a few Black inventors during February as their full social justice curriculum. According to John Dewey,...
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88The Battles Against The Spook Hunters
Today, Los Angeles, California has a very negative reputation. Many regard that city as the street-gang capital of the U.S., if not the world. And that is because it is the home of such notorious black gangs as the “Crips” and “Bloods” and...
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83My Take on Being a Chicano.
(Please see note on the word "Chicana" after main story). I lived for 5 years in California and another 15 in Mexico which may give me enough exposure to comment on the Mexican, or people of Mexican extract, who live mainly in the South-Western...
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751968: A Year Groovy Enough to Inspire an Entire Exhibit
As a card-carrying member of the Minnesota Historical Society who was born in 1968, you can imagine my glee when I heard they were designing an entire exhibit dedicated to the year of my birth. I looked forward to it for months. My good-natured family went along with my double-dose of historical geekiness and accompanied me to the exhibit on opening weekend last month. I was not disappointed.
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73Jailhouse Art, Prison Art, Pano Arte - AKA Panuelos and Handkercheif Art
Some say that handkerchief painting originated in Texas prisons. Many Mexicans were incarcerated in Texas jails during the 1940's. Most of them were Catholic and male. It is entirely possible that San Antonio had the largest share of Mexican prisoners in the world. Southern California being a close second.
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64There Is No Path to Citizenship
Hi, I'm Sharon Taylor.I'm married. It is a marriage built on love and commitment. It is a marriage with ups and downs, similarities and differences. We have 2 beautiful children, a boy and a girl. We all...
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81Texas Hospitality: In Huntsville Prison.
"No man's education is complete unless he has served time in a penal institution," Sir Stafford Cripps.. The main feeling I had when the steel-barred cage door slammed...
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80The Delano Manongs: Little Known Filipino Contribution To The Chicano Movement & The Rights of US Workers & Immigrants
If you are a Filipino-American then you should know a thing or two about the FANHS or at least you should be aware that October is the Filipino-American History Month. Now if you are Mexican-American (or...
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66The Aztec Tattoos History
There were many ancient cultures that showed art through tattoos. The Aztec group was one of the most advanced when it come to body art, they were known for their creative art skills and produced some...
73Sheila Cervantes on Chicanas and Indians
I read…Many convesations with me start this way and continue in a play of intertextual references and allusions to a common store of knowledge shared among the over-literate yet not quite academic persons of a certain age. Of course, being all...
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