Powerful interests don’t want students to “interrogate the systems of power and privilege that are at stake” in today’s struggles, said Dr Gilda Ochoa, a professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at Pomona College and supporter of legislation requiring all students in California’s public university system to pass an ethnic studies course before graduation. The bill was put on hold in the face of fierce opposition. Seventy-five percent of the state’s K1-12 students are non-whites, but few students or teachers “have learned this crucial history,” said Ochoa.
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Stepping into the folds of this book one begins a shamanic journey that is both an act of defiant and joyful resistance to patriarchal capitalist-coloniality.
Working-class white, Black, and immigrant women are concentrated in the most underpaid and underinsured jobs.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, widely viewed as a “radical,” has worked to deny, suppress, and minimize the existence of this public health crisis.
Obama, the drone president, stood for seven aggressive wars at once, more than any other US president.
