By Dulce Paloma Baltazar Pedraza

October marks the third annual Ethnic Studies Week, which started in 2010 as a reaction to Arizona’s controversial immigration law that was put in place with the passage of Senate Bill 1070. Founding organizer Wendy Cheng said the event organizers, a group of faculty members that call themselves the “ethnic studies working group,” are seeking to highlight the importance of ethnic studies.

Cheng, a School of Social Transformation professor, said the week of events began after numerous college campuses began to promote ethnic studies.“I noticed nothing was happening in Phoenix, which seemed weird to me because it was the capital of the state where SB 1070 was born,” she said.

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