Teaching Repression from the Civil Rights Era to the Present: Part 1

Session Submission Type: Interactive Workshop

Description

This is Part 1 of a two-part session on teaching repression. Political repression is a key concept of interest for students. In this workshop, participants will learn to identify strategies of repression to contrast to contemporary political landscapes. Participants will: define political repression, read through campaigns of misinformation, suppression, group infiltration, and harassment through a collection of examples in the COINTELPRO Papers. Cases will provide a structure to identify patterns of behavior the FBI engaged in to dismantle social movements, providing a lens to examine contemporary cases of federal interference in protest mobilization and organizing.

Sub Unit

• Teaching and Learning Symposium

Presenters

• Summer L. Lopez Colorado, University of California-Los Angeles

• Hunter Sagaskie, University of California-Los Angeles

Session Organizer

• Vondora Wilson-Corzen, Nassau Community College