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Students

Naturalization Expert Weaves Ethnic Studies into Civics

Whenever Daisy Herrera spots fearful facial tics or hears anxiety in the voices of students she reassures them that the process of becoming U.S. citizens doesn’t require them to renounce their Latina/o heritage and culture.

March 28, 2017

Latinx

Who Counts as an American?

The question that is being asked by the Trump administration is, who is an American? The easy answer, as we are seeing, is a throwback to the 1950s.

March 21, 2017

Students

Rodriguez: Language and Civilizational Clashes

For many years many academics and writers had avoided using the term racism or, more precisely, had avoided calling people racists because many believed that such terms had lost their meaning and power due to overuse.

March 16, 2017

Women

UW-La Crosse Dispatcher Fired Over Trump Offered Job Back

LA CROSSE, Wis. — A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse police dispatcher who says she was fired for supporting President Donald Trump’s travel ban will get her job back. Chancellor Joe Gow says the university system’s legal counsel recommended dispatcher Kimberly Dearman be rehired. Dearman was fired on Monday following a university investigation into a complaint […]

March 16, 2017

Students

700 Michigan State University Workers Won’t Help Immigration Agents

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Roughly 700 Michigan State University employees have signed a statement vowing not to help federal immigration officials seeking to apprehend or deport students. The Lansing State Journal reported Wednesday the faculty and staff members signed the “statement of solidarity” with students who are refugees, immigrants or children of immigrants. The statement […]

March 15, 2017

Students

Research Counters Trump View of Immigration

Monica Gomez Isaac, executive director of the Institute for Immigration Research at George Mason University, says, “The contributions of immigrants permeate nearly every facet of American society.”

March 5, 2017

Students

All Immigrants Not Included

The statements with messages of building and protecting an inclusive community are great to see, but the reality is not all campuses have included undocumented and DACA students in their statements.

March 2, 2017

Students

Scholars: DREAMer’s Arrest a Threat to Rights of All

Experts say the arrest of a DREAMer and aspirant university math professor who had just spoken out about the impact that immigration enforcement was having on her family has had a chilling effect on other DREAMers and is likely to reverberate beyond the community of undocumented students.

March 2, 2017

Latinx

Rodriguez: Time for Brown Berets to be Seen in Court?

What has not been litigated is whether Mexicans in this country are part of a foreign and illegitimate culture. With the recent arrest of the Brown Berets, perhaps it is time to take that assertion to court.

February 28, 2017

Students

Advocates Call for Schools to Stand By Undocumented Students

At a time of escalating fears of deportation, faculty and administrators should align themselves with undocumented students and actively fight to secure their future in the United States, according to a recent panel.

February 28, 2017

Students

Guillermo: Asian American History Shows Why Travel Ban Unjust

The media mostly forgot that Sunday marked the 75th anniversary of President Roosevelt signing an executive order authorizing the roundup and incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry.

February 20, 2017

Students

Aztecas del Norte: We Cannot be Illegal on Our Own Continent

Scholars in Chicano studies and related disciplines, since the 1960s, have long debated the idea of when Mexican Americans as a people(s) came to be.

February 19, 2017