Instant mass popularity of "Time on the Cross" as a technology-based re-evaluation of the slave system is traced; the furor it created in history and economics circles is described; and specific challenges which led to its demise as a credible document are related. (AV)

Addresses "an unabridged gap within the women's movement between an awareness of the role of ideology in visual respresentations of women in our oppression and the level of critical and theoretical analysis developed by a small number of largely professionally involved women". (Author)

Questions the assumption that movements are insurgent campaigns for change by offering a counter-example which demonstrates that rhetorical characteristics of movements may be replicated within the political power structure. (MH)

Indicates that, although the impact of the black press may only be able to be assessed in the context of existing social attitudes, from a holistic perspective, the large-circulation black papers seem to have been positive for the black movement. (KS)

Suggests that having journalism students write critiques of magazines and read books on the topic of journalistic practice can revitalize high school newspapers and yearbooks; provides an annotated list of recommended books. (KS)

Discusses worthwhile objectives for English teaching and proposes a simple formula: English classes should be classes for reading literature that really is literature and for writing about it in a way that attempts to be literature. (GW)

Demonstrates that midway through the decade of the 1970s, Gwendolyn Brooks continues to be inspired by the same subjects; militancy and communal unity, the celebration of blackness, black heroes, love, religion, and the role of the poet, were the burden of her poems in earlier periods. (MB)

Explains the difficulties encountered in keeping the emphasis in a women's literature course on literary analysis rather than consciousness raising. (MKM)

Examines Czechoslovakia's cinematic output during the 1960's and suggests that the Czech New Wave was a predictable response of a culture attracted by, but unwilling to come to terms with, socialist art. (MH)

In examining the phenomenon of bureaucracy, the question is not of bureaucracy "for" humanity, nor of "humane" bureaucracy, but rather how much bureaucracy human beings or human endeavors can endure without losing their humanness, since it is beyond doubt that humanness remains unessential to bureaucratic control. (MJB)

Examines how a semi-literate Black man named George Baker established one of the more prosperous and influential social movements of the century and how he persuaded thousands that he was God come-again. (MH)

A course focusing on Biblical literature uses the Bible in three instructional approaches--"as" literature, "in" literature, "and" literature. While it familiarizes students with the Bible, it also improves their critical reading skills through close attention to "good" literature and helps them grow through the experience. (Author/RK)

Essay focuses only on Jewish and black writing, the two most prevalent, although very different, examples of minority literature. (Author/AM)

Presents a reply on a previously written article on school district organization and student achievement along with a further rebuttal by the authors of the article. (Author/AM)

Notes how important it is that any critical writing assignments should take into account the individual reading, and that the teacher's role is to steer discussion that stems from a class of individual readings. Explores some of the aspects of Jane Austen's novel "Emma" to which students readily respond. (HTH)