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Ethnic Chauvinism or Modern Civil Rights Struggle?

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  • Aired: 05/17/2012
  • 01:59
  • Rating: TV-PG
When a highly successful Mexican American Studies program at a high school in Tucson comes under fire for teaching ethnic chauvinism, teachers and students fight back. This modern civil rights struggle is born at the epicenter of the immigration debate in the age of identity politics.
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