Texas Approves Mexican-American Studies Course Under Different Name

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Vibe


Viva Lola Jacobs | April 14, 2018 - 7:06 pm

After a four-year fight to make it a part of their elective curriculum, Texas’ board of education approved a Mexican-American studies course on Wednesday (Apr. 11). But they won’t refer to it that way.

The Board of Education will be calling the class, “Ethnic Studies: An Overview of Americans of Mexican Descent,” according to the Texas Tribune.

The vote, made official on Friday (Apr. 13) to approve the motion was nearly unanimous. But Republican board member David Bradley was not in favor of the label, “Mexican-American.” “I find hyphenated Americanism to be divisive,” Bradley said.

Three Latinx members of the board protested this amendment, Think Progress notes. Erika Beltran, Ruben Cortez, and Marisa Perez-Diaz, all Democrats, voted against the change while the last Latinx on the board, Georgina Perez, voted in favor. Perez-Diaz encouraged Bradley to acknowledge the difference between her American experience but it was to no avail. One other board member, Democrat Lawrence Allen (Houston) voted against removing the hyphenated label.

Read more: https://www.vibe.com/2018/04/texas-approves-mexican-american-studies-course-under-different-name/

[ProudLib72]

1. Four years to approve the course!

And there's this:

While the course was approved, it still won’t necessarily be available at all Texas schools. The permission leaves it up to different schools to decide whether they want to offer the course, though it won’t be mandated.

It will be fun to see how much interest there is in the class at those schools who include it.

[a la izquierda]

3. I am not a teacher/professor in Texas...

But I am a professor in West Virginia. I teach Mexican history.

It has very little interest here.

[Achilleaze]

2. Texican Studies