What is it about?
This essay explores US college student visits to sites of memory in Chile and how we might productively engage students in relating what took place there to ongoing US state violence.
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Why is it important?
Around the world, there has been an explosion of sites of memory, and US students are frequent visitors. This asks what we should expect of our students as they process their experiences.
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This essay is a work in progress toward a larger project on critical pedagogy, affect and cognition, and the politics of memory in the Americas.
Professor Katherine Hite
Vassar College
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This page is a summary of: Teaching the Politics of Encounter, Radical History Review, January 2016, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-3160086.
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