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Article: Dealing with academic conflicts in the classroom: I, Rigoberta Menchu as a case study.(Critical essay)
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- Teaching History: A Journal of Methods
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- March 22, 2006
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Writing in 1999, the American anthropologist David Stoll challenged several important elements in Guatemalan Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu's I, Rigoberta Menchu, a text assigned in courses in many disciplines in American colleges. (1) The controversy Stoll sparked encouraged a number of instructors to drop I, Rigoberta Menchu from their reading lists. Yet it is the controversial nature of this work which makes it suitable for my 150-student introductory course, "The World Since 1945," which meets a "cultural diversity" requirement for students at all class levels. My goal in assigning a troubling and troubled text such as I, Rigoberta Menchu in this course is to ...
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