American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL)

American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL)

Established in 2006 by Dr. Debbie Reese of Nambé Pueblo, American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books. Dr. Jean Mendoza joined AICL as a co-editor in 2016. (Site redesign on January 8, 2025)

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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Chris Crutcher on Matt de la Pena's book being banned: "This is racism, plain and simple."

Tucson Unified School District has a long history of failing its Mexican American students. This is true elsewhere, too, across the country....

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Jan 28 Updates regarding shut-down of Mexican American Studies program at Tucson Unified School District

[Note: A chronological list of links to AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Department at Tucson Unified...

Friday, January 27, 2012

Nation-wide responses to the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Department at Tucson Unified School District

[Note: A chronological list of links to AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Department at Tucson Unifi...

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

AICL Coverage of Arizona Law that resulted in shut down of Mexican American Studies Program and Banning of Books

This is a comprehensive set of links to AICL's coverage of the Arizona law that led to the shut down of the Mexican American Studies Pro...

Curtis Acosta's letter

Curtis Acosta [Note: A chronological list of links to AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Department...

Monday, January 23, 2012

Tweeting Tucson events

As I write (11:31 AM, CST, January 23, 2012), students are walking out of Tucson Unified School District's high schools. They are walkin...

Stegeman's January 22, 2012 letter

[Note: A chronological list of links to AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Department at Tucson Unified S...

Sunday, January 22, 2012

ALA Midwinter Discussions of Tucson Ban of Mexican American Studies Covered by CNN

[Note: A chronological list of links to AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Department at Tucson Unified S...

Progressive Libriarian's Guild: Statement on Censorship and the Tucson Unified School District

[Note: A chronological list of links to AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Department at Tucson Unified S...

Saturday, January 21, 2012

A Sampling of Children's Books used in the Mexican American Studies Program

[Note: A chronological list of links to AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Department at Tucson Unified S...

Dear Editors at the New York Times

Dear Editors at the New York Times , Several days have passed since books were banned in Tucson. Why have you not covered that news? Maybe...

Friday, January 20, 2012

Three of the banned books were approved in 2007, but not properly?!

[Note: A chronological list of links to AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Department at Tucson Unified S...

Video: What Huppenthal saw

[Note: For a chronological and comprehensive list of links to AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Depart...

National Association of Multicultural Education responds to closing of Mexican American Studies program

[Note: A chronological list of links to AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Department at Tucson Unified S...

Thursday, January 19, 2012

What Mark Stegeman said...

[Note: A chronological list of links to AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies Department at Tucson Unified S...

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Debbie Reese
Jean Mendoza

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