Sumários

Not Taught.

12 Abril 2017, 16:00 Margarida Vale de Gato

Interrupção Páscoa.


Civil Resistance | In Accord with Nature - on the Bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau

10 Abril 2017, 16:00 Margarida Vale de Gato

Civil Resistance | In Accord with Nature - on the Bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau - visit to the exhibition and event at the National Library:

http://www.bnportugal.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1245%3Amostra-resistencia-civil-acordo-com-a-natureza-bicentenario-de-hd-thoreau-10-abr-6-maio-17&catid=168%3A2017&Itemid=1260&lang=pt
Teacher's lecture: 
http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/04/a-walk-with-thoreau.html


Commentary practice (cont.) Guidelines for final assignment. Reading and discussing Suheir Hammad's "First Writing Since."

5 Abril 2017, 16:00 Margarida Vale de Gato

Presentation of WILL - Writing, Innovation, Learning & Language Center.

Commentary practice (cont.) + Reading and discussing Suheir Hammad's "First Writing Since.":
http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/04/angry-nigger-exterior-commentary.html
Guidelines for final writing assignment:
http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/04/writing-assignment-and-research-plan.html
And research plan /  annotated bibliography:
http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/04/writing-assignment-and-research-plan.html


Claudia Rankine, reading and discussing "Citizen - An American Lyric"

3 Abril 2017, 16:00 Margarida Vale de Gato

Claudia Rankine, Citizen (2014)Hybridity, Ethnicity and Race:http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/04/claudia-rankine-in-citizen1865-reading.html
Work presentation: story based on excerpts of Citizen 

http://northamericandiasporalit.blogspot.pt/2017/04/ines-damas-and-matilde-gouveia-story.html
Commentary practice - model text.


Invited Lecturer on Roma culture in the United States / Discourses of Blackness

29 Março 2017, 16:00 Margarida Vale de Gato

Invited Lecturer Michaela Mudure.

Conclusion of the course on race and ethnicity and "discourses of blackness": Are the Roma black?