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Dismantling: The Divine Right of States of the Americas | #indigenous #decolonization #Tonatierra

After two days of public engagement and discussion last week, an alliance of Confederations of Nations of Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala [the Americas] is moving forward into a continental and global process of DISMANTLING the Doctrine of Discovery as the intellectual, religious and political justification for the raison d’Etat of the government states of … Continue reading Dismantling: The Divine Right of States of the Americas | #indigenous #decolonization #Tonatierra

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@MALDEF disappoints Latino students in Tucson while compromising with White Supremacy – @ThreeSonorans

Why hasn’t MALDEF appealed to the Ninth Circuit? That’s where SES is now. Why does MALDEF keep negotiating with the perpetuators of this racism? Why is MALDEF even compromising with White Supremacy? If that term is too harsh for you, then tough, because that is what you call it when TUSD allows European History to … Continue reading @MALDEF disappoints Latino students in Tucson while compromising with White Supremacy – @ThreeSonorans

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Sisyphus, Chicano Style » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Sisyphus, Chicano Style » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names. by RODOLFO ACUÑA When asked what I have learned from writing about Arizona and what is going to happen in the future, I feel like the legendary king of Corinth immortalized by Albert Camus’ essay “The Myth of Sisyphus.” You remember the guy who … Continue reading Sisyphus, Chicano Style » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

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Confronting Race and Ethnicity

Confronting Race and Ethnicity

Enlightenment in Europe. Notions of race, predicated on a matrix of ancestry, ethnicity,
religion, and cultural practices, reveal how deep-seated racial prejudice is. The Jefferson
ideal of equality falls short in American discussions of race. Despite the ideal, Jeffersonian
himself believed that the differences between the races were “fixed in nature” and
therefore the equality set out in the Declaration of Independence did not apply to all.

At the core of American racial studies one finds the American School of Anthropology and
its theory of polygeny—that a hierarchy of human races had separate creations. Like the
Nazi school of human differences, the American anthropologist Samuel Morton developed
a scheme of racial differences based on cranial capacity to prove his theory that “Caucasian
and Mongolian races had the highest cranial capacity and therefore the highest levels of
intelligence, while Africans had the lowest cranial capacity and thus the lower levels of
intelligence” (Ibid.).

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Banned Authors Respond

Banned Authors Respond

“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans are indigenous. So, in a strange way, I’m pleased that the racist folks of Arizona have officially declared, in banning me alongside Urrea, Baca, and Castillo, that their anti-immigration laws are also anti-Indian. I’m also strangely pleased that the folks of Arizona have officially announced their fear of an educated underclass. You give those brown kids some books about brown folks and what happens? Those brown kids change the world. In the effort to vanish our books, Arizona has actually given them enormous power. Arizona has made our books sacred documents now.” Continue reading Banned Authors Respond