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Fail Montezuma! The Last Vestiges of an Obscured yet Stubbornly Persistent Culture of Racism at San Diego State University.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fail Montezuma! The Last Vestiges of an Obscured yet Stubbornly Persistent Culture of Racism at San Diego State University./
Author:	Monge, Ozzie.
Description:	109 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-04.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International55-04(E).
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10024231
ISBN:	9781339517629

Fail Montezuma! The Last Vestiges of an Obscured yet Stubbornly Persistent Culture of Racism at San Diego State University.
Monge, Ozzie.

Fail Montezuma! The Last Vestiges of an Obscured yet Stubbornly Persistent Culture of Racism at San Diego State University. - 109 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 55-04.

Thesis (M.A.)--San Diego State University, 2016.

By any measure, San Diego State University boasts a very diverse student body. In fact, SDSU has been the recipient of the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award, a national honor, for two consecutive years (2013-2014). In spite of this distinction, SDSU still maintains a moniker and a mascot that were born during an era when the ideology of white supremacy was the accepted social norm. The school's appropriation of Aztec culture in 1925 and the manner in which the students and faculty chose to use it demonstrates the ignorance that led to the consequentially racist misrepresentation of not only Aztecs, but of Indigenous people in general, with the most visible example being the school's mascot. The mascot itself perpetuates the "noble savage" stereotype, reducing Indigenous people to anachronistic objects suitable for use as a good luck charm during sporting events; this is completely antithetical to SDSU's achievements in diversity.

ISBN: 9781339517629Subjects--Topical Terms:

537498
Literature.

Fail Montezuma! The Last Vestiges of an Obscured yet Stubbornly Persistent Culture of Racism at San Diego State University.
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