UPDATE: [LRL] Henry Flores PhD; Emilio Zamora PhD; Ricardo Romo PhD on Chicano Struggles re Higher Education [LRL]
Ricardo Romo
Project 2025, organized by the Heritage Foundation is opposed to content it associates with “critical race theory,” “gender ideology,” and “woke” ideas, while also shrinking federal civil-rights oversight in schools. Brookings says the Project 2025 education chapter aims to dismantle the Department of Education, weaken civil-rights enforcement, and roll back protections for racially minoritized and LGBTQ+ students, which would affect how topics like race, racism, and identity are taught.
Ethnic studies programs usually examine race, ethnicity, migration, power, and inequality, so they can be vulnerable under policies that seek to ban or chill discussions of race or “critical race theory” [CRT] in classrooms. In practical terms, the agenda could encourage states or districts to restrict curriculum language, reduce teacher flexibility, and create a more hostile environment for courses that discuss systemic racism or cultural power relations.
The Heritage Foundation presents Project 2025 as a broader conservative education-reset focused on “education freedom,” parental control, and opposition to what it calls “woke ideas like critical race theory and radical gender ideology”. That framing is important because it shows the project is not mainly about ethnic studies as a field, but its education priorities overlap with efforts that often target ethnic studies content.
Ethnic studies depends on the freedom to teach about race, identity, history, and power in a direct way. Proposals that define race-conscious teaching as “indoctrination” or “discrimination” can make districts cautious about offering ethnic studies at all.
The strongest direct link is Project 2025’s effort to prohibit what it calls CRT and to bar schools from teaching race or gender in ways framed as violating parental rights. The second strongest is its plan to weaken civil-rights enforcement, especially by removing disparate-impact analysis, which could make it harder to address discriminatory treatment that ethnic studies often seeks to illuminate.
Ricardo Romo, UT Austin. History Dept. Retired.
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Henry Flores, PhD
The elimination of Mexican American, Chicano, and Raza Studies is beyond the control of universities. This is part of the attack on the diversity and inclusion efforts universities have been instituting for 50 plus years. All ethnic, gender-related studies are being eliminated. The forces behind this go through the state governments to Washington and those who carry influence in the White House. This is only a small piece of the efforts as set forth in Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation that is the blue-print for Trump's domestic policies. Behind all of this is a wide spread effort to turn American society into a White, Christian, Nationalist society. This means attacks on curriculum at all levels of education, i.e. removing all mentions of certain books from elementary and secondary schools and replacing them with biblically based books and forcing schools to display the Ten Commandments.
The fight to save Mexican American Studies has to be taken to MAGA, MAGA politicians, and White Christian (not) Nationalists. Us attacking universities will do no good. We need to attack the White American Nazis who are taking over our country.
This is a war on multiple fronts including education, immigration, and voting rights because the Nazis want only the votes of whites to count. Suppressing the minority votes through fear tactics (ICE raids in the community), purging voting rolls, demanding IDs that are difficult to obtain to vote, and so forth are all attempts to keep old, white, males in power.
So, before you go to war, know your enemy.
Henry Flores, PhD
Distinguished University Research Professor Emeritus
School of Law
St. Mary's University
San Antonio, TX
Distinguished University Research Scholar in Residence
Department of Political Science
University of Houston
Houston, TX
(210) 846-8260
Emilio Zamora, PhDe.zamora@AUSTIN.UTEXAS.EDU
Many of us are in the fight, before the state board of education for an expansive high school curriculum and before higher education officials involved in dismantling area, ethnic, and women’s and gender studies program. Our Austin-based Latino Coalition for Excellence in Higher Education, in particular, has been involved in public protests, submitting FOIA requests for possible legal action, proposing a People’s hearing, preparing Op-Ed pieces, seeking audience with UU officials, and trying to secure funds from the public. The attack on the programs, free speech, and faculty governance is going on throughout the state, at A&M and UT systems and other institutions (besides Austin, college Station, various universities in Houston and San Antonio, North Texas, the Kingsville Corpus area, and the RGV).Everyone should reach out to community and college/university leaders and build area coalitions to offer to help our faculty, students and program directors survive the onslaught. If anyone wishes to help us in Austin, contact me at emiliosoliszamora@gmail.com.
Jose M. Villarreal
villar48 <villar48@MSU.EDU>
Familia,
Someone should address the issue of the elimination of Mexican American Studies at UT Austin.
Where do we go from here if the gavacho universities erase our history and replace it with a current version of manifest destiny.
The destruction of Mexican American and Latino Studies will spread to other universities unless our gente stand up.
What are the legal options to oppose this attack on our community and pueblos? What can we learn from the struggle in Arizona to cancel Raza Studies? Where are our academic warriors who write about racism and oppression? We may have to start planning alternative Chicano institutions and colleges. What can we learn from our experience of Colegio Jacinto Trevino and Juarez Lincoln? Let's bring education back to the barrios.
Que piensan?
Camaron que se duerme, se lo lleva la coriente.....C/S
Firme,
Jose M. Villarreal
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