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Hurtado, Lourdes – Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 2023
This article examines a school textbook, the "Manual de Instrucción Primaria," which the Peruvian military created in the 1930s in order to help to redeem their indigenous recruits from their racialized backgrounds. On the one hand, the textbook echoed Peruvian elites' anxieties about the suitability of their indigenous contingents to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Armed Forces, Recruitment
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Reppy, Judith; Long, F. A. – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1976
"Independent Research and Development" for the Defense Department costs United States taxpayers about one billion dollars a year. Facts about the program are hard to uncover, but two members of Cornell University's Program on Science, Technology, and Society have investigated the program and conclude that Congress should exert greater control.…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Contracts, Development, Federal Government