{"id":78,"date":"2012-09-27T19:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T19:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/?p=78"},"modified":"2012-09-28T17:43:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T17:43:43","slug":"precious-knowledge-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/2012\/09\/27\/precious-knowledge-film-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening: Precious Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La Voz Latina is sponsoring a screening of the film, <em>Precious Knowledge<\/em>\u00a0(2011) Dir. Ari Palos, this\u00a0<strong>Sunday, Sept. 30, at 4:00pm<\/strong>\u00a0in Mather Terrace Room B.<br \/>\n<em>Precious Knowledge<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of disenfranchised high school seniors as they become academic warriors and community leaders in Tucson, Arizona&#8217;s embattled Ethnic Studies classes while state lawmakers attempt to eliminate the program.\u00a0Please come hear the stories of the students and educators who continue to struggle for the right to learn and teach their own histories in school.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the trailer:<\/p>\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.4.5 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/15062646?title=0&#038;amp;byline=0&#038;amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also,\u00a0Curtis Acosta, one of the educators in the Mexican-American Studies program in Tucson, Arizona will be speaking in Rittenberg Lounge on\u00a0<strong>Tuesday, Oct. 2<\/strong>\u00a0during the common hour (see info below).<\/p>\n<p>First &amp; Last pizza will be provided!<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small;color: #993300\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: xx-large\"><strong><em>BANNED HISTORIES<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small;color: #993300\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: x-large\"><strong><em>Mexican-American Studies and the Struggle for Educational Justice in Arizona<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;font-size: large\"><em>A talk by Curtis Acosta<\/em><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"><strong><em>Tuesday, Oct. 2, 12:15-1:30pm<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"><em>Rittenberg Lounge<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><em>On Jan. 10, 2012, the governing board of Tucson Unified School District voted to terminate\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"color: windowtext\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\"><em>the popular and enormously successful Mexican American Studies program, under pressure from the Arizona State Superintendent of Instruction. Two weeks earlier a judge had found it in violation of a new Arizona state law prohibiting classes designed for particular ethnic groups. Curtis Acosta, an educator from Tucson, will speak about the development of the Mexican-American Studies curriculum, its success with students, how and why it was found illegal, and the ongoing struggle for Mexican-American rights in Arizona.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/files\/2012\/09\/Banned-Histories.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/files\/2012\/09\/Banned-Histories.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/files\/2012\/09\/Banned-Histories.jpg 509w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/files\/2012\/09\/Banned-Histories-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/files\/2012\/09\/Banned-Histories-413x300.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"><em>Co-sponsored by Educational Studies, American Studies, History, Multicultural Affairs, La Voz Latina, Sociology, Hispanic Studies, and Psychology, in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: x-small\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Voz Latina is sponsoring a screening of the film, Precious Knowledge\u00a0(2011) Dir. Ari Palos, this\u00a0Sunday, Sept. 30, at 4:00pm\u00a0in Mather Terrace Room B. Precious Knowledge\u00a0tells the story of disenfranchised high school seniors as they become academic warriors and community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/2012\/09\/27\/precious-knowledge-film-screening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/hispanic-culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}