Considers the new organic intellectual as rhetoric teacher, working out the ways in which this teacher is uniquely placed to encourage the counter-hegemonic efforts to subordinate groups. Offers concrete classroom activities as well as theoretical elaboration of their genesis. (RS)

This article presents an original drama depicting the Lenin-Hobson theory of imperialism. Students participate in the drama and critically analyze its contents in order to better understand the Marxist point of view toward capitalism. (JDH)

Sylvia Plath's confessional poem, "Lady Lazarus" can be used to illustrate a connection between autobiography and social critique. "You poke and stir" among the institutions that form social relations--the educational system, the court system, the economic system--to find individuals whose lives, whose joys and pains, and…

Discusses how an undergraduate introductory comparative literature course used the study of the social function of literature to bring linguistic, structuralist, and Marxist research into the classroom. (DD)

Provides a practical demonstration of the writing class as cultural critique. Attempts to lead students to discover the social constructedness of their experience. Demonstrates that the resourceful writing teacher can make powerful modes of demystifying analysis accessible to all students. (RS)

Describes "collectivist composing" where the social relations enacted by the class, while writing together, are shaped by the students who are both writing together and studying the relations they make. Suggests teachers open their classrooms so that they become places for communal meaning making and collectivist writing. (RS)

Surveys evaluations of Immanuel Wallerstein's "The Modern World-System" by specialists in early modern history and examines Wallerstein's influence on early modern historiography. Concludes by considering some attempts to synthesize world-systems analysis with other approaches. (LS)

Teaches a critical alternative social psychology about late-capitalist U.S. society. Using Inkeles's list of the traits of "modern man," students make their own historical analysis. Provides description of student projects, data collection and analysis, and findings. Offers alternative conceptual materials and explains their classroom…