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- 1 2 Laura Steiner (31 January 2012). "'Librotraficante' Caravan Set To Smuggle Books Back Into Arizona Following Ethnic Studies Ban". Huffington Post . Archived from the original on 2 April 2019.
- ↑ "15-112. Prohibited courses and classes; enforcement". Arizona State Legislature.
- 1 2 "Reports of TUSD book ban completely false and misleading". Tucson Unified School District. 17 January 2012. Archived from the original on 13 July 2016. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 Phil Morehart (14 May 2013). "A Year in the Life of Librotraficante". American Libraries Magazine.
- ↑ Jeff Biggers (23 January 2012). "Tucson School Walk Outs Grow: Protest School District's Folly and Mexican American Studies Banishment". Huffington Post.
- 1 2 Phippen, J. Weston (July 17, 2015). "How Arizona Gave Rise to Book Smugglers". The Atlantic . Retrieved April 3, 2019.
- ↑ Ybarra, Priscilla Solis (2016). Writing the Goodlife: Mexican American Literature and the Environment. University of Arizona Press. p. 174. ISBN 978-0816532001.
- ↑ Alyson Ward (21 June 2017). "A rolling protest: Librotraficante hits the road again". Houston Chronicle.