Junot Diaz
This is covert white supremacy in the guise of educational standard-keeping--nothing more, nothing less. Given the sharp increase of anti-Latino rhetoric, policies, and crimes in Arizona and the rest of the country, one should not be surprised by this madness and yet one is. The removal of those books before those students' very eyes makes it brutally clear how vulnerable communities of color and our children are to this latest eruption of cruel, divisive, irrational, fearful, and yes racist politics. Truly infuriating. And more reason to continue to fight for a just society.
—Junot Diaz's book "Drown" was part of the banned curriculum of Mexican American Studies. Diaz won the Pulitzer prize for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."
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