Sumários

The New Netherland through the problem of (de)centralization of culture. Midterm

31 Março 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

New Nehterland - see intro powerpoint on moodle.

Dicussion on Rebecca Solnit's text "The Walmart Bienal"
Revsions powerpoint on moodle.
Midterm evaluation - written exercise.

Dixie/The South (cont.). Migration from South to North and introduction to New Netherland

26 Março 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

William Faulkner's speech to Virginians (cont.) and Nina Simone's song "Go Slow."

Internal migration of the African-American population. Langston Hughes' poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".
An excerpt from bell hooks, "Touchng the Earth".
STG - Stop, Turn, Go (teacher's midterm assessment)

The Deep South and King Cotton: forms of labor and of dealing with the land. Old and New South.

24 Março 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Dixie / the Deep South - see powerpoint on moodle.

Presentation on "King Cotton": planters (Cavaliers and Yeomen) and the workforce (sharecroppers, slaves); the role of women (Southern belle vs. Black Mamie and abused women).
William Faulkner: "A Word to Virginia" - and integrated education.
Race and racialization.

The "Tidewater" region; origins of Virginia in Jamestown; the ideal of the yeoman farmer.

19 Março 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Reading Marianne Moore's poem "Enough" as intro to the social formation and economy of Virginia and the Tidewater: tobacco, marriage and slavery.

Thomas Jefferson and the "yeoman farmer" ideal (the middle landscape, ownership of a humanized nature) - see powerpoint on moodle.
Blog post: https://usculturalgeography.blogspot.com/2025/03/hw-for-march-19-comparing-contrasting.html

New England and the Transcendetalism movement of the 19th Century: a spiritual relation with the environment.

17 Março 2025, 17:00 • Margarida Vale de Gato

Contrasting the Puritan relation with Nature with the Transcendentalists': the power of "going to nature" (Emerson) and that of walking in nature (Thoreau). The rehabilitation of the wild and (yet) an unstable relation with America's native inhabitants. Finally, contrasting the European ruins with America's modernized landscape - see powerpoint on moodle.