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Seeing Indigenous Mexican Students in Schools | Venice Beach News
Rafael Vásquez, a Santa Monica native whose parents are from Oaxaca, just saw his groundbreaking book—Culturally Responsive Schooling for Indigenous Mexican Students—hit shelves at the very library where he once studied as a kid. Co-authored with William Pérez, the book has already been adopted by the Los Angeles Unified School District for educator training, with 600 copies purchased. It tackles how schools routinely erase the distinct identities of Indigenous Mexican students, forcing them into broad categories like “Mexican” or “Latino,” while ignoring their unique languages, histories…
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