Literature in American peace history is reviewed in an attempt to demonstrate its abundance and to (assist historians in integrating the story of citizen peace activism into the teaching of the larger national experience. (RM)

Massive growth in British higher education since the 1960s did alter the social composition of the student body, but not in the ways many people imagined. Neither the worst fears nor the highest hopes were realized. New inequalities of educational opportunity have appeared, and the greater access gained in the 1960s has led to more limited student…

Since the 1970s, the Mexican-descent population of Guadalupe, California, has spearheaded a drive for local political representation. This paper examines their struggles and challenges the misconception of Mexican campesino immigrants as politically apathetic in their new homeland. From 1960 to 1990, the percentage of Guadalupe's population that…

This book provides an historical overview of American student activism from 1900 to the present with emphasis on the period from 1900 to 1960. An introduction to this edition reviews student activism since 1970 concluding that, despite brief sparks of activism such as the anti-apartheid struggle, there are currently no national or regional…

Intermediate organizations are non-profit structures active in the area of integration through economic activity aimed at reintegrating those with severe social and occupational problems into the labor market in France. With the employment crises of the past 2 decades, these organizations have been confronted by an ever-increasing demand and an…

This memoir by Howard Wesley Johnson, who was president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during the 1960s and 1970s, is an autobiography as well as a history of how MIT coped with and responded to the hyperturbulance of the Vietnam era. The book reflects three themes: it is a history; it is a personal memoir that analyzes the…

The Magazine and Visual Communication Divisions section of the Proceedings contains the following 8 papers: "Beefcake, Breadwinner, or Babysitter: A Content Analysis of Male Images in Female-Targeted Magazine Advertising, 1978-1998" (Mikalee Dahle and Jennifer Greer); "The Impact of Larry Flynt: An Overview of One Publisher's Legal…

Sees the scholarly community's failure to look seriously at the history of Blacks in intercollegiate sports as a missed opportunity to understand an important dimension of Afro-American intellectual history, the nature and development of the modern civil rights struggle, and the Black protest movement. (Author/CMG)

Examines fears of race genocide and selected social background factors among a random sample of Blacks in a rural Texas community. Findings revealed substantial fear of genocide on six indicators. Degree of fear varied with age, sex, education, and usage of birth control. (CMG)

This article provides an analysis of the meaning and role of ideology within the framework of modern radical educational theory. Ideology is placed in an historical context; the importance of ideology as a resource for mobilizing social action is stressed. The role of radical faculty is discussed. (PP)

Two professors describe their experience when a student filed a grievance protesting their grading methods and offer suggestions to other faculty on how to handle such a procedure. Each step from the first interaction with the student through the hearing is discussed, along with sources of student grievances. (MF)

Public interest research groups, lobbies, litigation, and self-interest groups represent a basic change in the style, direction, and form of student activism in the 1970s. Implications of this analysis are significant in terms of evaluating past research and setting a future agenda for research on student activism. (JMF)

Describes the effects on indigenous communities of Bolivia's recent Popular Participation Laws, which relocated political and financial decision making to the municipal level; community efforts toward cultural maintenance and nonformal agricultural education; the activism of indigenous university students; and the dual discrimination suffered by…

Analyzes data from the Latino National Political Survey to examine whether nonelectoral political participation by Latino subgroups (Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans) can be explained on the basis of culture, socioeconomic status, or mobilization (political activism). Mobilization offered the strongest explanation for…

Profiles Rigoberta Menchu Tum, a Maya-Quiche woman from Guatemala who in 1992, was the first indigenous person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize's youngest recipient, Menchu Tum is using the prize money and prestige to promote the international movement for peace and the rights of indigenous peoples and to contribute to indigenous…