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On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Ethnic Studies in Arizona
Dr. Rudy Acuña founded the Chicano Studies Department at California State University Northridge. At 78, he still teaches in what's become the largest program of its kind in the nation. In 1972, he wrote Occupied America : A History of Chicanos.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readDr. Rudy Acuña
founded the Chicano Studies Department at California State University Northridge. At 78, he still teaches in what's become the largest program of its kind in the nation. In 1972, he wrote
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
. The book has now been cited as an
example of what's wrong with Mexican-American studies in Tucson, Arizona, which have been
declared illegal by the state's newly-elected Attorney General, former Superintendent of Schools Tom Horne. We talk with Professor Acuña and others.
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Sonya Geis
Senior Managing Editor
Christian Bordal
Managing Producer, Greater LA
Héctor Tobar
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of “Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of ‘Latino’”
Rudy Acuna
Founder of the Chicano Studies Department, Cal State University Northridge
Roberto Suro
University of Southern California