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The wrenching struggle to define critical race theory at one Orange County school district
Theresa Montaño, a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge who helped craft an early draft of the state’s ethnic studies curriculum, was not surprised to hear that officials couldn’t settle on a definition of critical race theory. School boards looking to ban the concept are often “responding to a body politic that’s attacking critical race theory, but they have no knowledge of what it is,” she said. “Bans have become a means to “attack some of the civil rights gains like ethnic studies, like anti-racist education.” --Times News Network
Wrenching struggle to define critical race theory divides an Orange County school district
Theresa Montaño, a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge who helped craft an early draft of the state's ethnic studies curriculum, was not surprised to hear that officials couldn't settle on a definition of critical race theory. School boards looking to ban the concept are often "responding to a body politic that's attacking critical race theory, but they have no knowledge of what it is," she said. "Bans have become a means to "attack some of the civil rights gains like ethnic studies, like anti-racist education." --Yahoo! News
Wrenching struggle to define critical race theory divides an Orange County school district
Theresa Montaño, a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State Northridge who helped craft an early draft of the state’s ethnic studies curriculum, was not surprised to hear that officials couldn’t settle on a definition of critical race theory. School boards looking to ban the concept are often “responding to a body politic that’s attacking critical race theory, but they have no knowledge of what it is,” she said. “Bans have become a means to “attack some of the civil rights gains like ethnic studies, like anti-racist education.” --The Los Angeles Times
Your ultimate guide to live holiday entertainment around SoCal
‘Nochebuena: Christmas Eve in Mexico’
With Ballet Folklórico de Los Ángeles and Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéller. Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts (The Soraya), 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge. Free; RSVP required. (818) 677-8800. thesoraya.org --The Los Angeles Times
CSUN Prof Finds Teachers Reticent to Talk About Racism in American Heartland
That conversation, coupled with the increasing diversity of communities across America, led California State University, Northridge child and adolescent development professor Virginia Huynh and a team of researchers to begin a study to see how teachers are approaching the subjects of race and inequality with their students, particularly students in kindergarten to eighth grade. --The San Fernando Valley Sun
National Opera Association Announces Winners of 2020-21 Opera Production Competition
Opera McGills “The Turn of the Screw” won Division III with Purchase Opera’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites” taking home the top prize in Division IV. The winners of Division V and VI were California State University Northridge’s “L’Enfant et les sortilèges” and University of Wisconsin-Madison’s “What’s Past is Prologue: The Unfinished American Conversation,” respectively. --Opera Wire
Here’s what more power and resources mean for ethnic studies at Stanislaus State
Stanislaus, Sacramento, Fresno and Northridge are among the few CSUs to have some sort of ethnic studies department. However, they are behind San Francisco State, Cal State Los Angeles and CSU Fullerton, which already have created a college of ethnic studies. --The Modesto Bee
This Week's Events In Northridge-Chatsworth Area
Pride Center: The Lavender Takeover - California State University, Northridge
When: Tuesday, November 23rd at 5:00 p.m.
Where: California State University and Northridge
What: Event listing from California State University, Northridge: Tuesday, and November 23 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PMCome find support and encouragement in your community during /The Lavender Takeover/ with the Pride Center of the University Student Union. This special virtual gathering ...
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Are Racial Issues Discussed in the Nation’s Predominantly White Classrooms?
“We asked about going beyond a discussion about Martin Luther King Jr., to talking about what is happening today — how these kids see racial injustice and how they deal with it,” said Virginia Huynh, professor in the College of Health and Human Development at California State University, Northridge, one of the researchers on the study. “What we saw is that the teachers in the urban school were more willing to talk about those subjects than the rural one. But even then, it was only once in the past year.” --The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Post Lockdown, Arts Companies Still Struggle With Visas, Protocols, and Planning
Thor Steingraber is the executive director of the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts at California State University, Northridge. Prior to the pandemic, the Soraya presented a full schedule of performances that included international soloists, orchestras, chamber music ensembles, and dance companies. This year, as the Soraya reopened, it had already been forced to cancel the appearance of the Vienna Boys Choir, and most recently announced the cancelation of the Russian National Orchestra. Still slated to perform are: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko, with piano soloist Olga Kern; the Japanese drumming ensemble Yamato; Van Cliburn gold medalist Vadym Kholodenko; jazz pianist Harold López Nussa; the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by and featuring Joshua Bell; and Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting the English Baroque Soloists. --Classical Voice