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Race & Equality

Race & Equality. PostModern Turn. Economics Political Social Definition. Identity and Liberation. Gender Equality – next lecture Racial Equality Move towards political and economic independence in 3 rd world countries. Mohandas Gandhi. 1869-1948 “Great Soul” Nonviolent resistance

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Race & Equality

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  1. Race & Equality

  2. PostModern Turn • Economics • Political • Social • Definition

  3. Identity and Liberation • Gender Equality – next lecture • Racial Equality • Move towards political and economic independence in 3rd world countries

  4. Mohandas Gandhi • 1869-1948 • “Great Soul” • Nonviolent resistance • Liberation in 1947

  5. Wars for Identity

  6. Liberation & Identity in Latin America

  7. Map

  8. General Facts • Large majority of people live in relative poverty • Social Upheaval • Largely Spanish speaking • Predominantly Catholic – “Liberation theology” • Socialist Government

  9. Pablo Neruda • 1904-1973 • Chilean • Background • Poem – United Fruit Company Handout

  10. United States:The Quest for Racial Equality

  11. Segregation

  12. The Harlem Renaissance

  13. Harlem Street Scene

  14. General Facts • 1920-1940 • Common themes • Alienation • Marginality • Folk material • Blues tradition • Hot spots & Jazz

  15. Harlem “Hot Spots”

  16. Jazz

  17. Langston Hughes • 1902-1967 • Biography • Phrases part of our culture • “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”

  18. Gwendolyn Brooks • 1917-2000 • Biography • Uses street slang in poetry • “We Real Cool”

  19. Richard Wright • 1908-1960 • Literary fame and fortune • Biography • Native Son (1940) and Black Boy (1945)

  20. The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965

  21. Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

  22. Rosa Parks

  23. Martin Luther King, Jr. • 1929-1968 • Civil-rights leader • Model for future nonviolent movement

  24. Civil Rights Events

  25. August 28, 1963March on Washington

  26. Civil Rights Events

  27. Malcolm X • 1925–1965 • Militant leader • Message to the Grass Roots (1963) • 1964 – conversion to Islam

  28. African Americans and the Visual Arts

  29. General Information • Social concerns made public • African folk idioms • Colloquial language • Blue Aesthetic • Rhythmic, stylized compositions • Later • Bold • Cynical

  30. Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972, Socially Conscious Art

  31. Les Demoiselle d’Alabama

  32. Jazz

  33. Influences on Jazz • Marching bands • Minstrels • Blues • Ragtime

  34. Louis Armstrong • 1900-1971 • From New Orleans • Began at 12 • Developed scat singing • International respected form

  35. Louis Armstrong • 1900-1971 • From New Orleans • Began at 12 • Developed scat singing • International respected form

  36. Billie Holiday • 1915-1959 • Chicago singer

  37. George Gershwin (1898-1937)

  38. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974)

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