Race

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Race Equality
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PostModern Turn

• Economics
• Political
• Social
• Definition

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Identity and Liberation

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

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Mohandas Gandhi

• 1869-1948
• Great Soul
• Nonviolent resistance
• Liberation in 1947

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Wars for Identity
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Liberation Identity in Latin America
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Map
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General Facts

• Large majority of people live in relative poverty
• Social Upheaval
• Largely Spanish speaking
• Predominantly Catholic Liberation theology
• Socialist Government

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Pablo Neruda

• 1904-1973
• Chilean
• Background
• Poem United Fruit Company Handout

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United StatesThe Quest for Racial Equality
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Segregation
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The Harlem Renaissance
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Harlem Street Scene
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General Facts

• 1920-1940
• Common themes
• Alienation
• Marginality
• Folk material
• Blues tradition
• Hot spots Jazz

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Harlem Hot Spots
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Jazz
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Langston Hughes

• 1902-1967
• Biography
• Phrases part of our culture
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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Gwendolyn Brooks

• 1917-2000
• Biography
• Uses street slang in poetry
• We Real Cool

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Richard Wright

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

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The Civil Rights Movement

• 1955-1965

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Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka,
Kansas
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Rosa Parks
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Martin Luther King, Jr.

• 1929-1968
• Civil-rights leader
• Model for future nonviolent movement

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Civil Rights Events
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August 28, 1963March on Washington
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Civil Rights Events
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Malcolm X

• 19251965
• Militant leader
• Message to the Grass Roots (1963)
• 1964 conversion to Islam

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African Americans and the Visual Arts
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General Information

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

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Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, 1972,
Socially Conscious Art
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Les Demoiselle dAlabama
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Jazz
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Influences on Jazz

• Marching bands
• Minstrels
• Blues
• Ragtime

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Louis Armstrong

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

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Louis Armstrong

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

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Billie Holiday

• 1915-1959
• Chicago singer

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George Gershwin (1898-1937)
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974)