Mexican American Studies

In January of 2012, AICL began a series of posts about the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District. To see a comprehensive list of those posts, click on AICL's Coverage of the Shut-Down of TUSD's Mexican American Studies Program.

I covered it because I am committed to children's literature that focuses on Indigenous peoples.

Mexican Americans are rooted in the Indigenous peoples of the southwest. Literature taught in the MAS program in Tucson included works by many Native writers.