Sumários

The American Myth

18 Fevereiro 2020, 08:00 Mário Avelar

Some prefatory notes on the American Dream: visualization of excerpts of David Byrne's "True Stories" and Barry Levinson's "Avalon" - the Promised Land, the melting pot and the mosaic, the frontier.


Institutional frames

13 Fevereiro 2020, 08:00 Mário Avelar

Analysis of F. D. Roosevelt's “The Four Essential Freedoms”.


Between Myth and Reality

11 Fevereiro 2020, 08:00 Mário Avelar

Analysis of Frances Trollope's “The 4th of July”,  of a Native American Anonymous' “The Source from Which They Came”, of John Winthrop's “As a City upon a Hill”,  and of Booker T. Washington's “The Day of Freedom Came”.


Introducing the Other

6 Fevereiro 2020, 08:00 Mário Avelar

Race and gender: analysis of Abigail Adams's “Remember the Ladies”, and of W. E. B. Du Bois's“This Double-Consciousness”. 


The Other

4 Fevereiro 2020, 08:00 Mário Avelar

Visualization and analysis of Malcolm X's CBS interview: race, religion and ethos.