American History Cultures Sociology 
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history. My wife and I chose Aniefuna because in studying Black history, we learned that our land was never lost.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 14, 2022
Sociologist Ann Swidler calls these strategies “ cultural repertoires.” And even while many parents aspire to have their children go to college, our cultural repertoires for attaining that goal are different. Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools.
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Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could learn about maps and the geospatial revolution from a professor at Penn State University.
C3 Teachers
APRIL 10, 2022
You can address history, economics, sociology, you know all the facets of social studies. Some of the major goals were to address history told from multiple perspectives and told through a culturally responsive lens. You can do that through the Inquiry Design Model. We don’t use that word lightly in the district.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2024
That was apparent in January when the Board of Governors for Florida’s state university system, in approving regulations for the new anti-DEI law, also removed sociology from the list of courses that meet general education requirements. (On On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”)
Political Science Now
JANUARY 9, 2025
Johnson is a tenured Instructor in Political Science, History, and Geography at Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead, MN. in Sociology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and French and an M.A in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2024
She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Epstein gives me a sampling of some of the history department’s offerings, like ‘Birth of the Avant-Garde: Modern Poetry and Culture in France and Russia, 1870 to 1930.’ Kirk: That’s Josipa Roksa.
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