Court hearings resume next week in Phoenix in a legal challenge to a state law banning a Mexican-American Studies program in the Tucson School District five years ago. The law prohibited the teaching of hundreds of books by authors such as Sandra Cisneros and Isabel Allende. State representatives who promoted the law said Mexican-American Studies would promote the overthrow of the U.S. government and social resentment, claims that are now being called unconstitutional and discriminatory. Valeria Fernández spoke with two women who graduated from the program.
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