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Unhappy is the land that needs heroes.

—Bertolt Brecht

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Pol 166 Voter registration readings

Posted on May 7, 2018 by

Allrighty, the final set of online readings:

Recommended

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Pol 166 Civil rights readings April 24 & 26

Posted on April 23, 2018 by

The first piece looks at party support for civil rights in the 1960s, while the rest of the short pieces are focused on SNCC as an organization:

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Pol 166: Readings for April 17-19

Posted on April 11, 2018 by

A few readings, and couple of short video clips:

There are other clips from Freedom Riders worth checking out, too.

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Pol 166: Civil Rights Readings April 10-12

Posted on April 3, 2018 by

Here are the next set of readings, a mixed bunch of articles, photos, and cartoons; most are fairly short (1-2 pages), although some are a bit longer.

And while I’m only pulling two editorials about the sit-ins from the Greensboro Public Library archive local newspapers, I strongly recommend perusal of the various articles, editorials, and letters contained therein.

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Pol 166: SNCC Readings March 27-29

Posted on March 19, 2018 by

Here are the first set of SNCC readings; I’ll post the reading for the following weeks. . . in the following weeks:

Julian Bond, SNCC: What We Did
Greensboro sit-ins, others: Read ‘Greensboro sit-ins (Feb)’ and ‘Sit-ins Sweep Across the South (1960-64)’
SNCC Founding Statement
SNCC Founded (April)
Gallup poll on Freedom Riders, pp. 1-2

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Pol 341: Videos!

Posted on June 15, 2017 by

Hello, all.

Here are a couple of videos in lieu of Monday’s class; we’ll (try to) incorporate the issues raised in these vids into class discussions.

The Battle Over Abortion in Northern Ireland (12:56):

Inside Mississippi’s Lone Abortion Clinic (15:40):

Sosan’s story: Domestic violence in Afghanistan (12:32):

How India’s female untouchables are fighting back (16:56)

Laura Carlsen on the progress and peril of women in Latin America (9:24):

The African Woman and Politics, part 4, Naja’atu Mohamed (9:28):

LSE Middle East Centre, Elif Shafak (5:34):

And while these are  NOT required, they’re both worth a look.

The first is a short documentary on Latinas in the US, and gets at, in an everyday way, some of the issues of intersectionality:

Latina Confessions: Documentary Trailer (15:58)

PBS Makers V2: Women in Politics (52:41) covers some of the same ground as Collins’s book, and offers a nice, if somewhat bland, overview of women in American politics:

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