Tucson USD bans Shaekespeare's Tempest, Chicano Studies books [View all]
Good news, the books are not yet burned 
nor is there a list of books to burn, but hey, we are talking about Arizona! Who knows what Bush's Tea Party will do next.
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Did you know: Even Shakespeare got banned from Tucson USD?
by DA Morales on Jan. 13, 2012 http://tucsoncitizen.com/three-sonorans/2012/01/13/did-you-know-even-shakespeare-got-banned-from-tusd-with-mas-ruling/
Big Brother Huppenthal has taken his TEA Party vows to take back Arizona… take it back a few centuries with official book bans that include Shakespeare!
As part of the state-mandated termination of its ethnic studies program, the Tucson Unified School District released an initial list of books to be banned from its schools today. According to district spokesperson Cara Rene, the books “will be cleared from all classrooms, boxed up and sent to the Textbook Depository for storage.”
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Tucsonan Leslie Marmon Silko, winner of the “genius award” is banned, and so is Shakespeare. Thanks to Stegeman-Sugiyama-Cuevas-Hicks, who voted to not appeal this decision, Tucson even finds 16-17th century English literature by one of the greatest authors of all time, William Shakespeare, in need of being censored and removed from TUSD.
Welcome to Arizona 2012… taken back to Alabama 1960s… now back to England when the Pilgrims where starting to come over.
Next stop, the Dark Ages!
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Friday, Jan 13, 2012 2:47 PM PST http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/whos_afraid_of_the_tempest/
Who’s afraid of “The Tempest”?
Arizona's ban on ethnic studies proscribes Mexican-American history, local authors, even Shakespeare
... Other banned books include “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by famed Brazilian educator Paolo Freire and “Occupied America: A History of Chicanos” by Rodolfo Acuña, ...
... In a school district founded by a Mexican-American in which more than 60 percent of the students come from Mexican-American backgrounds, the administration also removed every textbook dealing with Mexican-American history, including “Chicano!: The History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement” by Arturo Rosales, which features a biography of longtime Tucson educator Salomon Baldenegro. Other books removed from the school include “500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures,” by Elizabeth Martinez and the textbook “Critical Race Theory” by scholars Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic.
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