What a California Town’s Fight Over an Ethnic Studies Course Revealed About Community and Healing

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🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Paso Robles is a small wine country town between the Pacific coast and the Central Valley – it’s a multicultural town, too, but many residents of color there feel invisible. That’s according to Los Angeles Times reporter Tyrone Beason who features Paso Robles in the latest installment of his ongoing “My Country” series, which explores the things that bind us and tries to make sense of the things that tear us apart. Beason digs into the different viewpoints behind a recent fight to reinstate an ethnic studies class at a local high school, which faced a backlash before ultimately being approved. That debate, like similar debates across the country around ethnic studies curriculum, revealed deeper fissures within the community. Beason joins us to talk about the story and what he learned from the residents of Paso Robles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.3	Governor Gavin Newsom announced new water restrictions this week as it drier than hope for rainy season wraps up.
1:08.2	But first, what do you know about Paso Robles? If you're not from there,
1:12.8	you're probably thinking about wine, maybe olives, too. Not the fact the city is 40% Latino
1:19.1	and that a recent effort to reinstate ethnic studies at Paso Robles High School met with
1:24.7	resistance from critics like the school board president who argued the class
1:29.5	could inflame racial resentments.
1:32.4	We'll talk with L.A. Times reporter Tyrone Bison about why so many people of color in California
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