Mexican heritage textbook for Texas schools full of 'offensive stereotypes'
Source: Guardian
Mexican heritage textbook for Texas schools full of 'offensive stereotypes'
Ruben Cortez and a committee found Mexican American studies textbook for use in public schools has 141 errors of fact, interpretation and omission
Tom Dart In Houston
@Tom_Dart
Wednesday 7 September 2016 14.07 EDT
Along with other Hispanic education advocates, Ruben Cortez was pleased to discover that Texas might approve a Mexican American studies textbook for use in public schools.
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The textbook, Mexican American Heritage, is packed with “flagrant falsehoods and offensive racial stereotypes”, the state board of education member told a press conference on Tuesday in Brownsville, near the border with Mexico. “Frankly this sounds like something in line with what you’d hear in the Trump campaign.”
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“It is an utter shame that we as policymakers, educational professionals and communities across this great state must deal with this racially offensive and poor attempt at academic work,” Cortez said. “Clearly intended to be a political Trojan horse into our schools, this textbook is a complete disaster and this should not even be considered a textbook, rather a political manifesto aimed at distorting the perceptions of our most valuable resources, our children.”
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The publisher, Virginia-based Momentum Instruction, is run by Cynthia Dunbar, who served a four-year term on the state education board and wrote a book in 2008, One Nation Under God, subtitled How the Left is Trying to Erase What Made Us Great, which described public education as a “subtly deceptive tool of perversion”.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/07/mexican-heritage-textbook-texas-offensive-stereotypes
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Cynthia Dunbar, The publisher, Virginia-based Momentum Instruction.
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