Sumários

Final Remarks

30 Maio 2018, 18:00 Edgardo António Medeiros da Silva

Guidelines for final exam. Clarifying course contents and doubts. Feedback to students on assessment (essays, oral presentations, course participation).


Race and Ethnicity in the US Political Nation (completed)

28 Maio 2018, 18:00 Edgardo António Medeiros da Silva

The Civil Rights Movement. Black nationalism: the black power/arts movement and the Black Panther Party.

Analysis and discussion of Luther King's "I Have a Dream" (1963) and Malcolm X's "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964).


Race and Ethnicity in the US Political Nation (continued)

23 Maio 2018, 18:00 Edgardo António Medeiros da Silva

Focus group activity based on "A Great Civilized Power", part III of 1900, of the PBS series The American Experience.


Race and Ethnicity in the US Political Nation (continued)

21 Maio 2018, 18:00 Edgardo António Medeiros da Silva

W.E.B. Du Bois' political thought. The "veil" and the "talented tenth." Controversy with Booker T. Washington.
Close reading of "Of Our Spiritual Strivings", chap. 1 of The Souls of Black Folk (1903).


Race and Ethnicity in the US Political Nation

16 Maio 2018, 18:00 Edgardo António Medeiros da Silva

Historical and political background of American Civil War and Reconstruction.
Analysis and discussion of Booker T. Washington's "Atlanta Exposition Speech" (1895).