Mark Brilliant - Department of History, UC Berkeley - University of ...

"Carey McWilliams and the California Challenge to Racial Liberalism in the 1940s," panel,
"California and the Reconfiguration of National Civil Rights History" (Michael Katz, chair, and
David Gutiérrez, commentator), American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia,
January 2006.
"Examining 'Asiatic Racialization' through Asian Naturalization Cases and the Legal Campaign
Against the Alien Land Laws," Teaching American History Grant for K-12 Teachers in the Oakland
Unified School District, University of California, Berkeley History-Social Science Project, December
2005.
"California's Axes of Discrimination and Avenues of Redress," Institute for the Study of Social
Change, Center for the Study of Law and Society, California Studies Group, University of California,
Berkeley, November 2005.
"Dealing With Charged Topics in the Classroom," panel, Committee on Teaching, Office of
Educational Development, and American Cultures Center, University of California, Berkeley,
November 3, 2005.
"Commentator's Remarks," panel, "African American Communities in the Modern American West"
(Quintard Taylor, chair), Western History Association Annual Meeting, Phoenix, October 14, 2005.
"César Chávez and the Tension Between Ethnic Bonds and National Boundaries in the Struggle for
Farm Worker Unionization," Teaching American History Grant for K-12 Teachers in the Oakland
Unified School District, University of California History-Social Science Project, June 2005.
"Non-Traditional Treatments of Civil Rights Historiography," Stanford University, Department of
History, April 2005.
"'What is Good for One Racial Classification is Not Necessarily Good for Another': Desegregation,
Bilingual Education, and the Emergence of California’s Conflicting Avenues of Civil Rights Redress,
1970-1974," panel, "America's 'Racial Frontier': Struggles for Social Justice Beyond Black and
White in Post-WWII California (Neil Foley, chair, and William Chafe, commentator), Organization
of American Historians Annual Meeting, Memphis, April 6, 2003.
"'Your Rights End Where My Property Begins': Proposition 14 and the Eclipse of Racial Liberalism
in California, 1963-1967," panel, "Varieties of Mid-Century Liberalism" (Lizabeth Cohen, chair, and
Daniel Rodgers, commentator), American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Boston, January
7, 2001.
COURSES TAUGHT
Lecture Courses
The American West from the Annexation of Texas and the U.S.-Mexican War to the Rise of Ronald