Radical Teacher, June 22nd, 2001
By Roy Porter. New York: Penguin USA, $14.95. To imagine a past in any way different from the present seems more difficult than ever before. Colleagues everywhere at every level describe students who appear to think that civil rights was a problem way back then that has been largely solved, just as sexism was something that used to plague us and now feminists have outlived their usefulness, that labor unions are an outmoded relic, socialism an ancient belief akin to that of the druids. Class-consciousness is a delicate and therefore difficult (and all too easily patronizing) topic to introdu...
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