Dr. Arturo J. Aldama This is Me

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1. 1. www.kpbs.org

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   Published on: 3/31/2007   Last Visited: 3/31/2007

   Moderator: BILL NERICCIO, Professor, SDSU Panel Respondent: JOANNA BROOKS, Associate Professor, SDSU Featuring: Arturo J. Aldama, Professor of Ethnic Studies, CU Boulder Fred Gardaphe, Professor of American Studies, SUNY Stonybrook Michael Harper, Professor of English, Mt. San Antonio College Paul Wong, Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, SDSU DATE & TIME: April 19, 4:00 - 6:00 pm LOCATION: West Commons 220

2. 2. Attack of the Churchill Clones

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   Published on: 7/7/2004   Last Visited: 7/28/2006

   Facio's fellow specialist in Chicano studies is Arturo Aldama.
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   Hired by CU in the summer of 2003, Aldama is co-chair of CU's Chancellors Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs, in which capacity he rails against the allegedly pervasive discrimination against Latino's inside the university. In a recent interview in the CU student newspaper, the Campus Press, he lashed out at the "environment of hostility" that minority faculty members allegedly face. "We live in a very diverse state but we hardly have any Latino faculty, or women of color in our faculty," Aldama explained. "We want the diversity of CU to reflect the diversity of the U.S. and the state of Colorado." This argument is also the subject of Aldama's book, Disrupting Savagism: Intersecting Chicana/o, Mexican Immigrant, and Native American Struggles for Self-Representation, which contains such chapter titles as "Millennial Anxieties: Borders, Violence, and the Struggle for Chicana and Chicano Subjectivity."
   
   Like his colleagues at the Department of Ethnic Studies, Aldama also takes his leftist politics into his classroom. In the spring of 2004, for example, Aldama taught a class which visibly blurred the line between education and activism. The class was presented as "a creative writing workshop on the ethnic spoken word, featuring the work of Puerto Rican, African American and other poets focusing on social change." (Also like his colleagues, Aldama refused to comment for this article. Instead, Aldama sent us an email attacking Front Page Editor-in-Chief David Horowitz, writing, "I admire immensely his ideological and racial fascism and its centrality to intellectual diversity.")
   
   Amidst the tempest surrounding Ward Churchill, Aldama emerged as the besieged radical's most vocal apologists.
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   When critics called attention to the multifarious inaccuracies, distortions and arrant falsehoods in Churchill's work, Aldama rallied to Churchill's side. "He's impeccable on his sources and known for his empirical and archival-based methodologies," Aldama told the Denver Post.
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   Aldama offered no comment on the observation, made by Churchill's critics, that Churchill's footnotes suffered from the same faults as the texts to which he so zealously appended them.
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   Writing in April 2003 in the leftist online magazine Bad Subjects, Aldama published an attack on the U.S.-led military campaign in Iraq that could have been penned by Churchill himself.
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   Aldama began by lambasting American media outlets, which, as he saw it, were uniformly in favor of the war, writing: "I want to look at the attempts by the state and by corporate-driven media to manipulate and coerce its body politic into becoming docile entertainment consumers of US military hegemony." Elsewhere in the article, Aldama excoriated the U.S. military efforts in a manner that was strikingly reminiscent of the anti-American diatribe that was Churchill's notorious essay. "Spin doctors," Aldama theorized, "are paid to continue the jingoism that has marked Bush's pseudo-populist presidency, especially post-9/11, to mitigate/justify/applaud/deny the violence of shrapnel-ripped skulls and buildings, groundwater poisoned for decades, the trauma of a bomb's noise and the anxiety of impending death that scar children's psyches as I write, death by friendly fire, the bombing of open markets and hospitals, and the use of scatter bombs."

3. 3. DenverPost.com - LOCAL NEWS

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   Published on: 2/13/2005   Last Visited: 5/29/2006

   There are always 50 to 60 students on the waiting list, and these aren't just ethnic studies students; they are students of all disciplines," said Arturo Aldama, a professor in CU's ethnic studies department.
   
   He was chairman of the ethnic studies department for 2 1/2 years until he resigned the post Jan. 31 when the controversy exploded.
   
   Throughout that time, his personal life was in a near-constant state of turmoil, according to court records.