Author leads caravan to “smuggle” removed books into Arizona


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Chicano!, one of the books no longer available in the classroom in Tucson, Arizona.(Courtesy Arte Publico Press)

Using a word meant to turn the infamous narco-trafficking phrase on its head, Latino activists calling themselves the librotraficantes (book traffickers) are marching their caravan of books through Texas and New Mexico to Arizona in protest of the discontinuation of the Mexican-American Studies course in Tucson and the subsequent removal of certain books.

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