Education. Arizona. Civil Rights

Teaching to think critically.
Arizona's anti-immigrant, anti-Latino perspective.
The banned books include "Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years", Shakespeare’s play "The Tempest", "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Paulo Freire, and "Chicano!: The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement".

RODOLFO ACUÑA: I called it Occupied America because it didn’t even refer to the United States. When the Spaniards came and the Europeans came to the Americas, this was an occupation of the Americas. It was also the destruction of many cultures. Remember, the Mayan culture, the Aztec culture and many of the cultures were destroyed at that particular time, and there was an occupation. At that particular point, they lost the power of self-determination.