Notes from the Ethnic Studies home front: student protests, texting, and subtexts of oppression

2011/09/26 by Lydia R. Otero, Julio Cammarota · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Critical Race Theory in Education #Critical and Liberation Pedagogy #Service-Learning and Community Engagement

paper · doi:10.1080/09518398.2011.600267

openalex publication_date 2011/09/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

The protest against Arizona House Bill 2281 designed to ban Ethnic Studies from K-12 public schools on 12 May 2010 in Tucson resulted in 15 arrests. Students walked out of their classrooms in large numbers to defend their Mexican American Studies curriculum and program. Based primarily on participant observation of the protest, the authors examine the pedagogies of transformational resistance, interrogate HB 2281’s repressive aspects, and illuminate the role of social networking media as expressions of cultural citizenship in the twenty-first century.

Citations

• Examining Transformational Resistance Through a Critical Race and Latcrit Theory Framework

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• “If There is No Struggle, There is No Progress”: Transformative Youth Activism and the School of Ethnic Studies
• Lydia Otero [wikipedia]

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