Summary: Issues And Approaches By Dolores Huerta

In 2006, Dolores Huerta delivered a speech to high school students where she stated the controversial words, “Republicans hate Latinos.” Dolores Huerta is a civil rights activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers. Huerta was invited to speak to Tucson high school students in regards to them walking out against the immigration debates. Huerta’s statement was then used in 2010 by Attorney General Tom Horne and other Arizona politicians to justify the passage of the House Bill 2281, also known as the Ethnic Studies ban. The banning of ethnic studies creates a multicultural conflict to many and continues to be an important issue in education. In this paper, I argue that ethnic studies programs are important to show representation of ethnic groups, close the academic age gap and allows for any student to be educated on the misrepresented contributions of certain groups in our history. In education, the lack of a diverse education can be considered a multicultural conflict. There are many factors that play into what should be taught through education and even though it may be complicated, I explore the idea that there can be possible solutions to this issue.
Education in the United States has exclusively focused on teaching its history from a
In the book, Ethnic Studies: Issues and Approaches, Philip Q. Yang describes how ethnic studies allowed students to “study ethnic groups and their interrelations through the combination and integration of perspectives of various disciplines, including anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, sociology, and humanities” (Yang 8). Ethnic studies introduced a new way of knowledge by allowing students to explore new ideas through non traditional learning. Ethnic studies also allowed for minority groups to be represented through their history in the United