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is not to romanticize all movements or dictate a specific relationship between scholars and activists instead it questions the emphasis on professionalization within ethnic studies the politics of the academic industrial complex or the engagement with larger movements for social transformation it recognizes that at times ethnic studies has been complicit in neutralizing the university rather than questioning its ideologies actions regulations and the production of knowledge and power it works to situate the university as a point of contention as a location among many for political struggles cesa invites participation from all types of people scholars students activists artists media makers and educators of all fields generations and disciplines the critical ethnic studies association was founded as a transnational interdisciplinary and undisciplinary association of scholars activists students artists media makers educators and others who are directly concerned with interrogating the limitations of ethnic studies to better engage the field s historical stakes it organizes projects and programs to reimagine ethnic studies and its future through new interventions both scholarly and activist based they aim to develop an approach to scholarship institution building and activism animated by the spirit of the decolonial antiracist and other global liberationist movements that enabled the creation of ethnic studies in the first place it hopes that this approach will continue to inform its political and intellectual projects 49 within the organization there is an emphasis on counteracting institutional marginalization revisiting the ideas that prompted the creation of ethnic studies and creating new conversations that challenge us hegemony in traditional ethnic studies their goals include establishing an interdisciplinary network of scholars and activists stimulating debate on critical ethnic studies and providing forums such as the biannual conference dialogues through seminars social media etc there is also a focus on publishing a journal critical ethnic studies for new scholarship and to facilitate dialogues that are critical and constructive between activists and academics 50 in high schools edit in california schools edit the neutrality of this section is disputed relevant discussion may be found on the talk page please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met september 2023 learn how and when to remove this message this section needs to be updated please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information september 2023 a 2021 law required california s public high schools to offer an ethnic studies class by 2025 and to require an ethnic studies credit for graduation by 2030 upon appropriation of funding however as of 3 14 2025 no funding has been allocated so it is unclear if the requirement has taken effect 51 as of 2020 half of california s students attended a high school where an ethnic studies class was offered 52 though the state provides a model ethnic studies curriculum it does not require that school districts adopt it there are two competing visions for high school ethnic studies liberated ethnic studies calls on students to c onceptualize imagine and build new possibilities for post imperial life that promote collective narratives of transformative resistance critical hope and radical healing while constructive ethnic studies aims to e quip students with the skills to understand and analyze multiple points of view on relevant topics so that they can develop their own opinions and present well articulated evidence based arguments 53 school districts in california are implementing ethnic studies courses into school requirements the el rancho unified school district erusd which serves the area of pico rivera became the first school district in california to require an ethnic studies class as part of its students graduation requirements in 2014 54 the ethnic studies resolution in erusd was both drafted and proposed by erusd s board president aurora villon and vice president jose lara and was presented as an effort to expose students to global perspectives and inclusion of diversity 55 this graduation requirement for erusd high school students is expected to be fully implemented by the 2015 2016 academic school year 55 in a similar move los angeles unified school district lausd will also begin requiring ethnic studies courses in its high schools and will include them in its a g graduation requirements in november 2014 the lausd board approved a resolution proposed by board members bennett kayser george mckenna and steve zimmer 56 the ethnic studies curriculum will begin as a pilot program in at least five high schools 56 it is expected that by the 2017 2018 academic school year every high school will offer at least one course in ethnic studies and the class would be compulsory by the time the class of 2019 graduates 57 while lausd board members proposed the resolution many students took on the efforts by creating petitions and rallies in support of the ethnic studies resolution 58 59 in february 2021 the california board of education approved a curriculum to include the contributions of asian black latino and native americans this included the approval of 33 optional lesson plans for schools to choose from 60 in arizona schools edit on may 11 2010 arizona governor jan brewer signed house bill 2281 also known as hb 2281 and a r s 15 112 which prohibits a school district or charter school from including in its program of instruction any courses or classes that promotes the overthrow of the federal or state government or the constitution promotes resentment toward any race or class e g racism and classism advocates ethnic solidarity instead of being individuals are designed for a certain ethnicity but the law must still allow native american classes to comply with federal law grouping of classes based on academic performance classes about the history of an ethnic group are open to all students classes discussing controversial history 61 coming off the heels of sb 1070 superintendent of public instruction tom horne was adamant about cutting mexican american studies in the tucson unified school district he devised hb 2281 under the belief that the program was teaching destructive ethnic chauvinism and that mexican american students are oppressed 62 63 in january 2011 horne reported tusd to be out of compliance with the law in june of that year the arizona education department paid 110 000 to perform an audit on the tusd s program which reported no observable evidence was present to suggest that any classroom within the tucson unified school district is in direct violation of the law 64 john huppenthal elected superintendent as horne became attorney general ordered the audit as part of his campaign promise to stop la raza but when the audit contradicted his own personal findings of noncompliance he discredited it despite a formal appeal issued on june 22 2011 by tusd to huppenthal judge lewis kowal backed the superintendent s decision and ruled the district out of compliance in december 2011 65 on january 10 2012 the tusd board voted to cut the program after huppenthal threatened to withhold 10 of the district s annual funding numerous books related to the mexican american studies program were found in violation of the law and have been stored in district storehouses including william shakespeare s the tempest paolo freire s pedagogy of the oppressed and bill bigelow s rethinking columbus the next 500 years 66 supporters of mas see hb 2281 as another attack on the hispanic population of arizona this is due partly to the fact that none of the other three ethnic studies programs were cut support for the ethnic studies programs subsequently came from scholars community activist groups etc for example the curriculum audit of the mexican american studies department refuted all of the violations under house bill 2281 the audit instead recommended that the courses be further implemented given their positive impact on students in addition to defending the ethnic studies department the un charter of human rights challenges the bill as a violation of fundamental human constitutional and educational rights kunnie 2010 a 2011 documentary precious knowledge directed by ari palos and produced by eren mcginnis for dos vatos productions argues that while 48 of hispanic students drop out tusd s program had become a model of national success with 93 of enrolled students graduating and 85 going on to college 67 the film shows a 165 mile community run from tucson to phoenix in protest of the state s decision as well as student led marches and stand ins in one instance students overtook a board meeting by chaining themselves to the board members chairs 68 a student protest group unidos united non discriminatory individuals demanding our studies has remained active speaking out before legislators and school board members on behalf of the program 69 in a separate case two students and 11 teachers sued the state contending that the law is unconstitutional the teachers however have been denied standing in the lawsuit as public employees 70 appeal of arizona ban edit the mexican american studies course was first brought under attack after the deputy superintendent of public education gave a speech to students countering an allegation that republicans hate latinos 71 the students walked out of the speech and tom horne the superintendent blamed the rudeness of the students on the teachers from their mexican american studies courses he called for the removal of the courses when his call was not answered he made an effort to get a bill passed banning mexican american studies courses 71 house bill 2281 72 which prohibited the mexican american studies courses was approved in december 2010 in an effort to enforce the bill the district court granted the superintendent of the school district the authority to withhold funding from schools that continue to teach the ethnic studies course 73 judge kowal ruled the course biased political and emotionally charged and upheld both the bill and the withholding of funding from schools 73 an appeal was filed in october 2010 71 the initial appeal was challenging house bill 2281 72 for violation of first amendment for viewpoint discrimination and fourteenth amendment for void for vagueness rights 71 this initial appeal was filed by 10 teachers the director of the mexican american studies program and 3 students and their parents 71 once the students graduated 2 dropped their appeals and the teachers and program director were dismissed for want of standing in january 2012 71 this left one student and her father on the appeal in march 2013 the appeals court ruled only in favor of the plaintiffs on the grounds that there was a first amendment overbreadth violation to house bill 2281 72 the plaintiffs decided to further appeal the case 71 on july 7 2015 the appeal on the ban of the mexican american studies maya arce vs huppenthal reached a federal appeals court 74 overseen by judge rakoff the court reversed part of what the district court had ruled on banning the course judge rakoff looked at the 4 categories listed above that constitute which classes are prohibited 74 rakoff stated that house bill 2281 was created with the mexican american studies course in mind 71 since the mexican american studies course was the only course in arizona to be banned it became clear that the bill had targeted the one course this led the court to find the bill partially unconstitutional as it did not require similar mexican american studies courses outside the tucson unified school district to cease teaching the bill also did not ban african american studies courses that were being taught 74 rakoff s final ruling affirmed part of the bill to be unconstitutional regarding the plaintiff s first amendment right 71 however rakoff upheld the district court s ruling that the bill is not overbroad 71 rakoff sent part of the appeal back to the district court to review the claim that the bill is discriminatory 71 in august 2017 a different federal judge found that the bill was motivated by discriminatory intent and struck down the ban on ethnic studies as unconstitutional 75 the judge ruled that the ban had been passed not for a legitimate educational purpose but for an invidious discriminatory racial purpose and a politically partisan purpose 76 criticism edit ethnic studies have always faced opposition from various groups proponents of ethnic studies feel that this is a reactionary movement from the right they note the rise of the conservative movement in the united states during the 1990s during which the discipline came under increasing attack for proponents the backlash is an attempt to preserve traditional values of western culture symbolized by the united states for some critics this is a slant by proponents to disparage criticism by false association with right wing ideology they have no objection to african latino or native american culture being legitimate topics of academic research what they object to is the current state of ethnic studies which they see as characterized by excessive left wing political ideology postmodernist relativism which in their view greatly undermines the scholarly validity of the research however ethnic studies is accused of promoting racial separatism linguistic isolation and racial preference 77 in 2005 ward churchill a professor of ethnic studies at university of colorado at boulder came under severe fire for an essay he wrote called on the justice of roosting chickens in which he claimed that the september 11 attacks were a natural and unavoidable consequence of what he views as unlawful us policy and referred to the technocratic corps working in the world trade center as little eichmanns 78 conservative commentators used the churchill affair to attack ethnic studies departments as enclaves of anti americanism which promote the idea of ethnic groups as victims in us society and not places where serious scholarship is done 79 in the face of such attacks ethnic studies scholars now have to defend the field in the media this takes the form of characterizing the attack as a right wing reactionary movement for example orin starn a cultural anthropologist and specialist in native american studies at duke university says the united states is a very diverse country and an advocate would say we teach kids to understand multiculturalism and diversity and these are tools that can be used in law government business and teaching which are fields graduates go into it promotes thinking about diversity globalization how we do business and how we work with nonprofits 80 in reaction to criticisms that ethnic studies academics undermine the study of a unified american history and culture or that ethnic studies are simply a colored version of 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