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The Book Pushers...
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikmi8uCjLHZuLkIU5iwyNe1hAWh7No4gVAGqe5HEIgU8usfCpYUSAGOfRr6s5EyWnJJJ96OwvkRaOeBJqFhSLXRR-r-U80MMuJH_qqg2ULAzjvv2Pgj5-JJiyvhlq9T9y5o9gAfH6E9hUL/s1600/aaaaaaaaaLibros.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 259px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 194px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720510477197469394" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikmi8uCjLHZuLkIU5iwyNe1hAWh7No4gVAGqe5HEIgU8usfCpYUSAGOfRr6s5EyWnJJJ96OwvkRaOeBJqFhSLXRR-r-U80MMuJH_qqg2ULAzjvv2Pgj5-JJiyvhlq9T9y5o9gAfH6E9hUL/s320/aaaaaaaaaLibros.jpg" /></a><strong> By DUARDO PAZ-AMRTINEZ</strong><br /><em>The Paz Files</em><br /><br /><strong>AUSTIN, Texas -</strong> Now that Arizona has banned the teaching of Ethnic Studies in its state colleges and universities, while also cutting funds for books by Hispanic authors to public schools, a few Hispanics have banded to smuggle those same books into America's state of brotherly hate.<br /><br />The operation is going by the name of <strong><em>Librotraficantes</em></strong>, and efforts are underway to ferry truckloads of books by Hispanic authors beginning this week. One of the pushers of the drive is Tony Diaz, himself a novelist. Diaz and his friends from Houston are enroute to Tucson and Phoenix with a load of books Arizona says it does not need or want.<br /><br />As noted in a brief editorial carried by today's <em>New York Times</em>, the effort is "a response to an educational mugging by right-wing politicians, who enacted a state law in 2010 outlawing curriculums that advocate 'ethnic solidarity,' among other imagined evils."<br /><br />Among the books Arizona has trouble with is "<strong><em>The House on Mango Street</em></strong>," a book by San Antonian Sandra Cisneros that tells the tale of a young Hispanic girl growing up in Chicago. It has been praised nationally and is often assigned-reading in high schol and college literature classes.<br /><br />"Arizona has tried to erase our history," Diaz told <em>The Times</em>. "So we're making more."<br /><br />Diaz and his group promise to hold a ceremony at the Arizona border, where they will wrap some of their books in plastic and carry the "<em>wetbooks</em>" across the stateline.<br /><br /><em>The Times</em> calls the journey an "inspiring act of indignation and cultural pride."<br /><br />For others sympathetic to the movement, mailing a book by an Hispanic author to an Arizona public school or college library might also help Arizona understand the idea that you can't remove a culture simply by banning books. Under the state's law, Mexican-American Studies was banned in Tucson's public schools last year...<br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:85%;">- 30 -</span></strong></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8418586410607151775-2082245620294613229?l=thepazfiles.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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