...Alicia del Campo The 2011 student movement radically challenged the Chilean political process by exposing the hidden legacy of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship and demanding a complete restructuring of its neoliberal reforms. The demonstrators contended that these so-called reforms transformed...

...Marisol LeBrón This article examines the practice of “ carpeteo ,” or politicized police surveillance and targeted harassment, during the 2010 and 2011 student strikes at the University of Puerto Rico (UPR). LeBrón argues that police and security forces engaged in tactics that deeply resonated, for...

...Jon Wiener Copyright © 1996 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1996 FOR THE RECORD McNamara, Vietnam, and Student Protest Jon Wiener In the debate over Robert McNamara’s bestselling mea culpa...

...Naomi Rogers 2001 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2001 02-RHR 80 Rogers.btw 5/15/01 5:20 PM Page 5 “Caution: The AMA May Be Dangerous to Your Health”: The Student Health Organizations (SHO) and American Medicine...

...David Nasaw Copyright © 1996 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1996 On Teaching U.S. Cultural History to Graduate Students David Nasaw The most difficult task for the instructor in graduate cultural history courses is...

...Heather Vrana Escalation of state violence against Guatemala City's University of San Carlos (USAC) in the late 1970s compelled students to rework the politics of death. In this essay, the commemorative texts and funeral photographs of three student leaders — Mario López Larrave, Oliverio Castañeda...

... Schlesinger, Jr., to his Harvard protege, Henry Kissinger. (In Compromised Campus, Sigmund Diamond recalls that young Henry was best know for opening fellow graduate students' mail and send- ing contents to the FBI. But this is another story-r is it?) Rh4N had moments, as many commentators have...

...Holly Blake; Melissa Ooten This article explores the course objectives, pedagogy, and texts/assignments of the course “Gender, Race and Activism.” Learning about the historical traditions of social movements is critical for today's students. They need social justice role models in order to...

... participation in public scholarship with trends that promote neoliberal models of university finance and governance, which often put the university at odds with the public outside and inside its walls? In the fall of 2005, a group of history and American Studies PhD students at the University of Minnesota...

...Jesse Hingson Since 2004, I have used various document sets from the National Security Archive (NSA) to teach students about modern Latin American history at Georgia College and State University, a medium-sized public liberal arts university in central Georgia. The NSA has the largest non...

... and scholarly approaches to oral history and ethnography. The course engaged these methods, requiring students to conduct oral histories and transform those interviews into performance monologues. Informed by the role of Chicana/o teatro in the social protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the...

...Gilda L. Ochoa; Daniela Pineda While teaching about race/ethnicity and class from a critical pedagogical standpoint, not only might we encounter student resistance to learning about systems of domination, but we should also be aware of the ways that power, privilege, and exclusion in the larger...

... content delivery and for sparking discussions. Also used were “passbooks” to simulate, though not re-create, the way the apartheid regime used identification books to oppress black South Africans. Two of the most challenging discussions for the students were the idea of the proper use of international...

...Sigrid Schmalzer The author relates her experience teaching an undergraduate seminar on the 1970s–1980s movement Science for the People (SftP). She taught the seminar in conjunction with a three-day conference that brought together students, scholars in science and technology studies, and former...

...Magid Shihade In this essay, I discuss my experience of teaching a course on 9/11 at several universities in the United States and at one in Pakistan. The essay emphasizes the importance of teaching this course to critically engage students with policies that have followed the event and with how...

... involved with the student group Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlán (Chicana/o Student Movement of Aztlán—MEChA), the United Farm Workers (UFW), and the women's group Chicana Consciousness. Talamante's border crossings—between Mexico and the United States and across the Americas, from agricultural...

...Peter Alegi; Amy Bass; Adrian Burgos, Jr.; Brenda Elsey; Martha Saavedra University courses on sport and society have increased exponentially over the past decade, motored by student interest and the acceptance of cultural studies in the academy. This online forum, organized and coordinated by...

... student experience, learning objectives, and theoretical frames used for creating knowledge grounded in African thought. Special consideration is given to the presumed capacity of students outside privileged educational institutions in the United States, the consequences for mentoring and stimulating new...

...Eric Covey Abstract US students often fail to see the global histories of the local sites they inhabit or how capitalism and militarism configure these landscapes in significant ways. In this reflection on critical pedagogy, I describe my interdisciplinary approach to situating Africa and the...

...Thomas G. Andrews This essay describes two experiments in integrating contemplative practices such as sitting meditation and lectio divina into an undergraduate seminar titled “Animals in America.” It begins by giving account of the first iteration of the class, then discussing student evaluations...