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  • Hispanic activist wants Chicano studies purged (New Mexico)

    07/26/2020 9:29:52 PM PDT · by CedarDave · 13 replies
    The Albuquerque Journal ^ | July 26, 2020 | Russell Contreras /AP
    A New Mexico Hispanic leader upset about the removal of Spanish conquistador monuments is pushing for the state to end its support for Chicano and Native American studies. In a letter to University of New Mexico President Garnett Stokes, New Mexico League of United Latin American Citizens Executive Director Ralph Arellanes wrote that the state’s largest university should dismantle both programs because they teach Latino students “self-hate” about their Spanish heritage. Arellanes, who signed that letter in his role as New Mexico LULAC executive director and chair of the Hispano Roundtable of New Mexico, said he has collected stories of...