A large percentage of students enrolled in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD), just as in much of Arizona’s public school systems are the children of immigrants, both legal and illegal. One of the courses those children are being taught is so-called Raza studies or Mexican-American studies.

Raza studies (race studies) have been taught in the TUSD for about a dozen years.

One of the textbooks they use is titled “Occupied America,â€