Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Anti-intellectualism is taking over the United States

What are they going to do next? Fahrenheit 451 is prescient.
Philistines are at the walls of the library and its only a matter of
time before books are barbecued in place of rams as sacrificial
offering to baal.

On 11/3/15, 'Ikhide' via USA Africa Dialogue Series
<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> "Recently, I found out that my work is mentioned in a book that has been
> banned, in effect, from the schools in Tucson, Arizona. The anti-ethnic
> studies law passed by the state prohibits teachings that "promote the
> overthrow of the United States government," "promote resentment toward a
> race or class of people," "are designed primarily for pupils of a particular
> ethnic group," and/or "advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment
> of pupils as individuals." I invite you to read the book in question, titled
> Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, so that you can decide for yourselves
> whether it qualifies.
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> In fact, I invite you to take on as your summer reading the astonishingly
> lengthy list of books that have been removed from the Tucson public school
> system as part of this wholesale elimination of the Mexican-American studies
> curriculum. The authors and editors include Isabel Allende, Junot Díaz,
> Jonathan Kozol, Rudolfo Anaya, bell hooks, Sandra Cisneros, James Baldwin,
> Howard Zinn, Rodolfo Acuña, Ronald Takaki, Jerome Skolnick and Gloria
> Anzaldúa. Even Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and Shakespeare's The Tempest
> received the hatchet.
>
> Trying to explain what was offensive enough to warrant killing the entire
> curriculum and firing its director, Tucson school board member Michael Hicks
> stated rather proudly that he was not actually familiar with the curriculum.
> "I chose not to go to any of their classes," he told Al Madrigal on The
> Daily Show. "Why even go?" In the same interview, he referred to Rosa Parks
> as "Rosa Clark.""
>
> - Patricia Williams
>
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/may/18/anti-intellectualism-us-book-banning
> - Ikhide
>
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