• Title: DON’T CALL ME OAXAQUITA!
• Guest: Arcenio López.
• Additional Guests: Denis O'Leary.
• Host: Chelis López
• Date: THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 2012
• Description: DON’T CALL ME OAXAQUITA! A Southern California school district banned an epithet used by many Mexicans to put down people of indigenous descent, who are estimated to make up about one third of the state’s farmworker population.
• Genre: News
• Location: Oakland, CA.
• Program Number: 6699
• Producer: Samuel Orozco
• Progam Number: 6699
• Publisher: Radio Bilingüe
• Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License
• Subject: Education, Art and Culture.
• Year: 2012
• Program Name: la_120607.mp3
• Length: 59:06 minutes (54.12 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)

DON’T CALL ME OAXAQUITA! A Southern California school district banned an epithet used by many Mexicans to put down people of indigenous descent, who are estimated to make up about one third of the state’s farmworker population. The decision made by Oxnard schools is part of a larger campaign to ban the racially charged and widely used word “Oaxaquita”, as well as encourage lessons about indigenous Mexican culture and history throughout the state.

Guests: Arcenio López, Associate Director, Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project, Oxnard, CA, www.mixteco.org/; Denis O'Leary, Member of Board of Trustees, Oxnard School District, Oxnard, CA, http://www.oxnardsd.org