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The Struggle to Decolonize Official Knowledge in Texas’ State Curriculum: Side-Stepping the Colonial Matrix of Power
Equity & Excellence in Education ( IF 2.7 ) Pub Date : 2019-07-03 , DOI: 10.1080/10665684.2019.1649609
Angela Valenzuela 1
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ABSTRACT This article relies primarily on both postcolonial theory and Critical Indigenous Studies to demonstrate how the Mexican American Studies (MAS) PreK-12 Committee of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas Foco, or chapter, successfully waged battle in getting the Texas State Board of Education to officially incorporate Ethnic Studies, generally, and MAS, specifically, into state curriculum. I situate this struggle in Texas against the backdrop of the fight for MAS in the Tucscon Unified School District in Tucson, Arizona, and make the case for the valuable role that a collectively-shared, Chicana feminist mestiza consciousness played in our ultimate victory, even as we faced, a formidable “colonial matrix of power” embedded in official, social studies curriculum. Drawing on both postcolonial theory and Critical Indigenous Studies, I develop the argument that this colonial matrix of power has deep roots that find expression today in vexed Anglo-Mexican race relations in both Texas and Arizona. In Texas, this has been historically manifest in social studies curricula, alongside deep-seated white supremacist ideology and state structures like the Texas State Board of Education and the Texas State Legislature. Via an Anzaldúan Chicana feminist mestiza consciousness, this article further situates MAS at a theoretical crossroads of postcolonial theory and Critical Indigenous Studies.

中文翻译:

德克萨斯州课程中非殖民化官方知识的斗争:回避殖民权力矩阵

摘要本文主要依靠后殖民理论和批判性土著研究来展示墨西哥裔美国人研究 (MAS) PreK-12 全国奇卡纳和奇卡诺研究协会 Tejas Foco 委员会如何成功地赢得德克萨斯州教育委员会正式将民族研究(一般而言)和 MAS(特别是 MAS)正式纳入州课程。我将德克萨斯州的这场斗争置于亚利桑那州图森市图森联合学区争取 MAS 的背景下,并论证了集体共享的奇卡纳女权主义混血意识在我们的最终胜利中发挥的宝贵作用,甚至正如我们所面临的,官方的社会研究课程中嵌入了一个强大的“殖民权力矩阵”。借鉴后殖民理论和批判性土著研究,我提出了这样的论点,即这种殖民权力矩阵具有深厚的根源,如今在德克萨斯州和亚利桑那州的恼人的英美种族关系中得到了表达。在德克萨斯州,这在历史上一直体现在社会研究课程中,还有根深蒂固的白人至上主义意识形态和德克萨斯州教育委员会和德克萨斯州立法机构等国家结构。通过 Anzaldúan Chicana 女权主义混血意识,本文进一步将 MAS 置于后殖民理论和批判性土著研究的理论十字路口。这在历史上一直体现在社会研究课程中,以及根深蒂固的白人至上主义意识形态和德克萨斯州教育委员会和德克萨斯州立法机构等国家结构中。通过 Anzaldúan Chicana 女权主义混血意识,本文进一步将 MAS 置于后殖民理论和批判性土著研究的理论十字路口。这在历史上一直体现在社会研究课程中,以及根深蒂固的白人至上主义意识形态和德克萨斯州教育委员会和德克萨斯州立法机构等国家结构中。通过 Anzaldúan Chicana 女权主义混血意识,本文进一步将 MAS 置于后殖民理论和批判性土著研究的理论十字路口。
更新日期:2019-07-03
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