A new Mexican-American studies textbook being proposed by the Texas Board of Education makes some rather startling claims about Mexican-American history.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2016/07/18/proposed-texas-textbook-describes-mexican-americans-as-lazy-new-coalition-works-to-block-it/
The article mentions Cynthia Dunbar, who's a rather infamous figure in Texas. She's essentially been using the Board of Education as a tool to promote her own religious and ideological viewpoints and have those viewpoints implanted in K-12 curriculum. There was a documentary made 5 or 6 years ago that had her as one of the central characters. The documentary is called The Revisionaries, and you may be able to find it with a google search. Maybe the most infuriating part about this story is that Texas has some of the most respected scholars in the field of Latin American Studies, yet the board refuses to utilize them and instead are using a textbook written by people with no apparent expertise in the field. You can find more quotes from the proposed textbook in the link below:
https://www.texasobserver.org/mexican-american-studies-textbook-dunbar/
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