Thread: Chicano Atzlan Nationalist Professor fired from U of New Mex

Chicano Nationalist Professor Fired Despite Student Protests of Censorship
by Michelle J. Nealy
Nov 20, 2007, 03:07

The teaching contract of a 25-year University of New Mexico instructor, who supports the secession of Southwest states to form an independent Chicano nation, is not being renewed despite protests from students who fear the university is stifling academic freedom.

Dr. Charles Truxillo, a longtime Chicano nationalist, contends his firing was due to his radical beliefs.

“I know that it is my beliefs because they cannot come up with any other reason. The administration said that they were looking for full-time tenure-track faculty. I qualify … Why isn’t a position being offered to me?â€

Republica del Norte

UNM - The Albuquerque Tribune in its issue of January 31, 2000, reported at length on one man’s plan for a Republica del Norte. The new republic, according to its herald, Dr. Charles Truxillo, an adjunct professor of Chicano Studies at the University of New Mexico, should be brought into existence â€

[b]If Truxillo loses his job, he’ll be left without health insurance. “The entire situation is only making me sicker,â€

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New Mexico Professor Advocates Secession for Southwest
by Christopher Chow

Chicano Studies Professor Charles Truxillo at the University of New Mexico advocates that California, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona secede from the United States to form the Chicano republic of El Norte (The North) stretching from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. The racial consolidation of whites and Asians is also proposed.

"As an academic mission I'm proposing it as a thesis. But I'm also an advocate of the idea," Truxillo told Campus Report. "I myself-through the way I teach my classes and to the students I help form in the classroom-that's my activism. A student group at the University of New Mexico has been founded around the idea called El Norte."

Truxillo has been teaching Chicano Studies since 1997 at the University of New Mexico where he earned his degree. During that time he has developed a reputation as one of "El Norte's" most outspoken advocates. The University of New Mexico-based El Norte movement is one of racial consolidation that expresses resentment toward the United States for "cultural imperialism" and its immigration policy. "Finally, the American ruling establishment will be forced to acknowledge the failure of its century-long policy of attempting to assimilate the Latino demographic tidal wave by means of a militarized border, oppressive immigration laws, anti-Hispanic cultural legislation, and mass deportations," states El Norte. "These measures will increasingly demoralize the United States, giving the lie to its reputed democratic values."

Chicano Studies teaches that Hispanics come to America seeking a better economy but become "strangers in their own land," victims of what Truxillo calls, "cultural imperialism." The only solution he sees is for Hispanics to form their own racial nation state. "Like when Ireland broke away from England or when Croatia broke away from Yugoslavia or the way Palestine is trying to be formed right now in the West Bank in Gaza," says Truxillo. "The main incentive would be so people of the same culture, language, and identity could develop their own nation-state under the principal of self- determination."

The El Norte movement might meet resistance from some Hispanics, admits Truxillo. But he is confident his proposal will gain support. There will not be a violent secession as in the Civil War, believes Truxillo, but he teaches that just as the South had the right to secede so does the Southwest, and he has advocated secession, "by any means necessary." Additionally, the El Notre movement has suggested that it would achieve power via military strength. "Accumulated wealth can be used to procure military technology, small arms or weapons of mass destruction if need be, which could be used as a deterrent," proclaims El Norte. "The myth of the stereotypical docile Indian who lives in harmony with his enemies, that has been perpetuated by white liberals, and even perpetuated by many tourist-oriented Indians, will be eradicated."

El Norte would not be the only race-based nation-state predicts Truxillo. He advocates races all over the world consolidating into ethnic empires. The U.S. and Canada would merge into a white English speaking empire. Asians too would want to unite as a nation state in the Pacific, predicts Truxillo.

Truxillo assured Campus Report that there would be no imperial conquest like that of Japan during World War II. The Asian nations would choose to merge so they could consolidate their power into a racial block. "Communism's day is over. Even the communism of China is an official ideology but it's a capitalist society now, it's just not a democratic one."

Critics contend that major economic and cultural differences not only keep these countries apart, but in opposition to each other.

Truxillo believes the United States would fear a military alliance between El Norte and the Asian block and therefore allow El Norte to secede peacefully in order to remain on good terms. If El Norte is not allowed to secede, Hispanics will form a military alliance with the Asian block against the United States. As evidence to support his thesis, Truxillo cites the collapse of the Soviet Union, a collapse which he blames on excessive ethnic diversity in the U.S.S.R.

"The Russian majority was feeling overwhelmed by these ethnic minorities including these Muslims from Central Asia. And a very high level strategic decision was taken, basically to form the Central Asian Islamic countries into an independent area," states Truxillo. "All our lives we were told this was a powerful totalitarian state, that it was a threat to the free world and yet it broke apart rather easily."

Part of Truxillo's course is contrasting his theories of cultural alienation of Hispanics by American culture with that of feminists' discontent with society. "Certainly when minority women take up the very same ideas and ideologies American feminists are presenting, you wonder if that is not a case of cultural imperialism," he professed.

The theory of Hispanic secession and the formation of a separate nation-state has become a growing cause in recent years. In 2001, a New Mexico legislator introduced a resolution to rename the state "Nuevo Mexico." In 1999 the Texas town of El Cenizo declared Spanish the official language and made cooperation with the I.N.S. by city employees illegal.

Critics, such as University of New Mexico Political Science Professor Joseph Stewart who teaches "Racial/Ethnic Politics," point out that Hispanics have traditionally chosen to come to America, not leave it. He sees that as Hispanics immigrate to the United States, they become assimilated into American culture. While some like Truxillo see "cultural imperialism," they are in the minority. "It seems to me that what you're getting is more cultural homogenization," said Stewart. "There's at least some evidence that the Mexican-American population is becoming diffused much more broadly geographically in this country. At least in the United States, I don't see the Hispanic population becoming more distinct but in fact becoming less distinct."

Truxillo stands by his thesis. "These areas were bonded for hundreds of years under the old Spanish Empire. So they share a much longer history together than they've shared apart under the United States."

Truxillo believes secession is inevitable but will not happen soon. He predicts El Norte's recognition between 2050 and 2080. "I may not live to see the Hispanic homeland, but by the end of the century my students' kids will live in it, sovereign and free."

http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/ ... 002_2.html

Truxillo believes secession is inevitable but will not happen soon. He predicts El Norte's recognition between 2050 and 2080. "I may not live to see the Hispanic homeland, but by the end of the century my students' kids will live in it, sovereign and free."

Why isn't this psycho in a mental facility where he can get some help for his dementia?

I can promise you all that Hispanic Americans like myself, WILL NOT let Trujillo's dream happen.

They have a chicano state its called Mexico. There a lots of them there. Why not go on there and be soverign and free. He should have been fired for being a traitor. It won't happen if we have anything to say about it.

I watched him preach on Youtube .... he needs to be booted out of this country NOW

LawEnforcer
PostPosted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject:
I can promise you all that Hispanic Americans like myself, WILL NOT let Trujillo's dream happen.

Amen to that LawEnforcer....I would proudly stand by yourside as an American with Mexican Ancestry myself. I wouldn't trade this great awesome country. I am too spoil with the freedoms that this country has given me and many others from around the world including Mexico.

Again, I don't give a hoot how the Southwest was brought, taken, stolen, or won in a local lottery at some supermarket back then. I will not allow any of our states to be hand over to Mexico so it can be turned in a hellhole.

Here is another article about him. He has even named the 'new' country--
Republica del Norte.â€