Sumários

The Civil Rights' Movement, the New Frontier and the Great Society

8 Novembro 2017, 16:00 Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo

Brown v. Board of Education (1954) as the culmination of a long fight for civil rights in the US;

The Montgomery bus boycott revised – the role of the women of the NAACP and the role of clerics/activists such as Martin Luther King, Jr.,

The Birmingham campaign of 1963: violence against protesters and bombings; 

End of the deacade marked by riots in inner-cities  and "white flight to suburbs" (a means to achieve RE-segregation);

Bob Dyland and Nina Simone - social commentary and protest songs: different roles in the movement;

The liberal presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.


 

 


Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

3 Novembro 2017, 16:00 Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo

- Ras the Exhorter and Black Nationalism;


- Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X;

-The Brotherhood and the Communist Party;

-Comunism in Context and McCarthyism;

-Surrealism as the Other side of history.


Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison II

27 Outubro 2017, 16:00 Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo


-The Bus episode and the the Montgomery Bus Boycott; 

- The Liberty Paint Factory: symbols and contexts;

-Folk narratives as intertextual allusions;

-Martin Luther King Jr.; "I have a Dream" Speech" and the March on Washington (1963).


Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

25 Outubro 2017, 16:00 Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo

- The 'Battle Royal' episode;
- Education in the novel and alusions to Booker T. Washington;

-Brown v. Board of Education (1954): the beginning of the end of segregation;
- The reception of the novel: 3 reviews of the novel; 
- The meaning(s) of the epigraphs.


Second World War (Continuation)

20 Outubro 2017, 16:00 Susana Isabel Arsenio Nunes Costa Araujo

The Pacific Theatre;

Geo-political Consequences of War;
New Gender roles and Film Noir;
The Truman Doctrine and the Cold War