The National Council of La Raza is headquartered one block from our office. Despite what their spokesmen may or may not tell you, “La Raza” means “The Race,” and it’s a term that has gained an impressive toehold in some k-12 public schools as “Raza studies.” (It’s on college campuses, too, of course. One can earn a B.A. in Raza Studies from the University of San Francisco, for example, and then graduate fully prepared for a life of grievance and groaning.) Here’s an article detailing the Raza nonsense peddled in some Tucson, Arizona, high schools. If you’re into this type of thing, perhaps in order is a junket to the 10th Annual Institute for Transformative Education seminar, sponsored by the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American/Raza Studies Department and the University of Arizona College of Education.

Classroom teachers will have the opportunity to learn from and work with the leading scholars in the areas of Latino critical race theory, critical race theory, critical multicultural education, Chicana/o studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, critical pedagogy, and critical race pedagogy.

It’s incredible, really.