Curriculum Showcase 2: Teaching Inequality in the Art Classroom

by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Art, Film & Literature, Economics, Human Rights, International, Politics

Presented by KChrissy Gray-Rodriguez, Janet Roller Schmidt, Susan Dardar.   Video Three Chicago-area educators share their experiences on teaching about inequality through the visual...

Curriculum Showcase 1: Teaching Inequality in the Social Studies/History Classroom

by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Economics, History & Social Sciences, Human Rights, International, Politics

Presented by Kayla Vigil Nuguid, Michel Nowak, Bill Singerman, Meghan Thomas.   Videos Four Chicago-area educators share their experiences in teaching about inequality in the social studies and history classrooms.   Bill Singerman shared the following Vimeo...

On Social Inequality and the Roots of the Arab Spring

by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Conflict, Economics, Egypt, History & Social Sciences, Middle East, Politics, Tunisia

Reading The Bread Revolutions of 2011: Teaching Political Economies of the Middle East   Video Pete Moore (Marcus A. Hanna Associate Professor in Politics, Case Western Reserve University) talks about how long-standing inequalities and fiscal crises contributed...

Fighting Low-wage Work in the American City: Community Responses to Urban Inequality and the New Civil Rights Agenda

by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Economics, History & Social Sciences, Human Rights, Politics, United States

Readings Justice for Nail Salon Workers Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers Something Rotten in NYC Nail Salons The State of the Unions 2015: A Profile of Unionization in Chicago, in Illinois, and in America The Price of Nice Nails   Video Virginia Parks (Associate...

Beyond Inequality: Expulsions

by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Economics, History & Social Sciences, Human Rights, International, Politics

Presented by Saskia Sassen (Professor of Sociology, Columbia University & The Committee on Global Thought).   Reading The middle classes: An historic actor in today’s global world   Web Links A Short of History of Vultures [behind pay-wall] The Language...

Postwar Okinawa and US-Japan Relations

by ncarsenault | Jul 8, 2019 | 2015, Conflict, East Asia, Economics, History & Social Sciences, Japan, Politics, United States

Presented by Ryan Yokota (Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian History, University of Chicago). Web Links Ryan Yokota’s Papers on Academia.edu Nikkei Chicago