The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies

 For Blog #4, I decide to use connections to refer to this article. In Christine Sleeter's research review titled, "The Academic and Social Value of Ethnic Studies", she talks about how it is important to not only recognize people with different backgrounds, but ,"recognize that that ethnic studies grew from a desire to counterbalance both inaccuracies and the predominance of Euro-American perspectives that underlie mainstream curricula." This, to me, reminds me of what we were talking about in class the past week about oppression. This reminded me of Kate's blog where she pulled the quote from "The Four I's of Oppression". The quote talked about how someone had a belief and got others to believe what he felt and made others feel less than if they thought differently. 

Kate's Blog

Christine Sleeter's research paper reminded me of the Precious video. In the Precious video, it talked about the story of a school in Tucson, Arizona where students  got their ethnics study curriculum taken away from them. The students were in an environment where they were learning about their culture and were in a space that they felt comfortable in. One of the higher men in charge took away their class because it was "threatening America". This man claimed they were trashing the founding fathers and had no respect for their class or beliefs. In the research paper, author Christine Sleeter talks about respecting others beliefs and where they came from which those values were also shown in the Precious documentary.