People involved in the Mexican American Studies struggle in Tucson, Arizona recently compiled a list of the banned books from the district, as well as released a letter signed by many organizations expressing concern over First Amendment rights, given the Tucson Unified School District’s removal of these texts. Here is the letter and here is the list, also reproduced below.

Debbie Reese has compiled this list from the May 2, 2011 Cambium Report.

High School Course Texts and Reading Lists Table 20: American Government/Social Justice Education Project 1, 2 – Texts and Reading Lists

Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998) by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson

The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998) by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (2001) by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2000) by P. Freire

United States Government: Democracy in Action (2007) by R. C. Remy

Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006) by F. A. Rosales

Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1990) by H. Zinn

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