Palestine is getting relegated to an impermissible viewpoint.

And the battle of ethnic studies becomes a battle between practitioners of the field

who understand its liberated origins, its anti-imperialist roots in third worldist struggles for self-determination, and another group of

people who attempt to ideologically police the field.

Welcome everyone to a new episode of the Magdi-C street podcast. I'm delighted today to be joined by two

superb scholars and people who invested

an activist who invested a ton of time in sort of promoting ethnic studies in the state of California.

Our first guest is Dr. Teresa Montanio, who's a professor at Cal State Northridge in Chicano,

Chicano Studies, with an emphasis on education.

Teresa has long experience as an educator and an organizer who worked previously for the United

Teachers, Los Angeles, and the UCLA Teachers Education Program as a faculty advisor.

And as a union activist, Teresa continues her involvement in the California Faculty Association,

where she leads public education work. Teresa has been instrumental in the elaboration of

what is called the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium. We'll talk

about that in a few moments and she has many articles and texts and books on

issues like teacher activism,

educational justice and injustice, and educating the Latino, Latina and Chicano-Chicana students.

Our other guest, our second guest, is Dr. Christine Hong, who's a professor at UC Santa Cruz,

in the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Her work focuses on transnational

Asian American literature and cultural criticism, African American literature and black freedom studies,

comparative ethnic studies, critical race theory. And Christine has served as the co-chair of the University

of California Working Group responsible for developing the California High School Ethnic

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