ERIC Number: EJ1172294
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 35
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ISSN: EISSN-2327-3607
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Kigali and Phoenix: Historical Similarities between Pre-Genocide Rwanda and Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Wave
Dwyer, Eric
Critical Questions in Education, v9 n1 p40-61 Win 2018
Historical events in Arizona, including very recent ones, are eerily similar to those of Rwanda. In this article, stories of Arizona's political history are relayed while recalling those leading to Rwanda's genocide. The stories include references to key roles education policy has played in the oppression of students labeled Tutsi and students labeled Mexican. These stories are then mapped with respect to Barbara Harff and Ted Gurr's checklist evaluating conditions that may portend impending oppression. Conclusions derived from the stories and the mapping suggest that Arizona's phenomena extend beyond its borders and into a Trump presidency, necessitating our obligation to be leaders by extending cur-rent technical conversations supporting multiculturalism to boisterous multilingual advocacy regarding any dehumanization of oppressed communities.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Death, Cognitive Mapping, Social History, Racial Discrimination, Mexicans, Mexican Americans, Blacks, Political Power, Educational Policy, Educational Discrimination, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Social Bias, Crime
Academy for Educational Studies. 2419 Berkeley Street, Springfield, MO 65804. Tel: 417-299-1560; e-mail: cqieeditors@gmail.com; Web site: http://academyforeducationalstudies.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Rwanda; Arizona (Phoenix)
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