Vol. 111 (2018): Teaching and Resistance in the Time of Trumpism
Teaching and Resistance in the Time of Trumpism


The 2016 election of Donald Trump has brought with it a wave of dangerous, reactionary developments, including an emboldened white supremacy; brazen sexism; a belligerent foreign policy posture; an ever-more punitive stance on “law and order”; racist, xenophobic immigration and border policies; denial of scientifically-proven climate change; an augmented neoliberal, “business” approach to social problems; an assault on truth in favor of “alternative facts”; the elevation of hate and bigotry in public discourse and attitude; and more. While many were shocked by the election results, the Alt-Right, authoritarian forces and sharply regressive ideas that carried Trump into office have deep historic roots and broad support. 

For many people, including the electoral majority who voted against Trump and those who are targeted by Trumpism, these are dark, distressing times. And yet, recent years have witnessed the rise of resistance movements—from Black Lives Matter and NoDAPL to the 2017 Women’s March on Washington (and affiliate marches around the country and the world) and nationwide demonstrations against the new administration’s bigoted immigration restrictions, among others. Left educators at all levels are active in the struggle, and have created networks to share pedagogical and activist strategies.

This issue explores how progressive educators are teaching about, working within, and resisting Trumpism. 

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Teaching and Resistance in the Time of Trumpism

Sarah Chinn, Joseph Entin
1-5
Introduction: Teaching and Resistance in the Time of Trumpism
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Jesse W. Schwartz
6-11
Preaching to the Choir: Turning Anger Into Engagement at Urban Community Colleges
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Emily Claire Price, A. Susan Jurow
12-20
On Belonging: Children Respond to Trump through Play and Imagination
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Jennifer Hernandez
21-22
Kill and Drill
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Alexandra Juhasz
23-29
Radical Digital Media Literacy in a Post-Truth Anti-Trump Era
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Clelia O. Rodriguez
30-34
The #shitholes Syllabus: Undoing His(Story)
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DJ Cashmere
35-45
Teaching High School Cultural Studies in the Age of Trump
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Fred Marchant
46-48
Fasces Americae and Walt Whitman’s House
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Travis Boyce
49-56
After #Charlottesville: Interrogating our Racist Past in the Trump Era
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Andy Beutel
57-64
Pushing the Line: Teaching Suburban Seventh Graders to be Critically Conscious through Historical Inquiry and Civic Letter-Writing
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Erika Kitzmiller
65-79
Educating Educators in the Age of Trump
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Chris Steele
80-81
denvergoddamn
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Tristan Josephson
82-87
Teaching 'Trump Feminists'
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Ann J. Cahill, Tom Mould
88-102
Refusing to Wait: Just-in-Time Teaching
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Audrey Fisch
103-108
Trump, J.K. Rowling, and Confirmation Bias: An Experiential Lesson in Fake News
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Hannah Ashley, Katie Solic
109-117
Making a RUCCAS or How is an Urban Community Change Axis like a Writing Desk?
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Heath Schultz
118-125
Thin Edge of Barbwire: Pedagogical Strategies Against Borders
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Contributors' Notes

136-138
Contributors' Notes
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