Category: school
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movements, notes. capitalism
class notes. jan 31. freedom movements fr nights, Golden town Mapantsula visual imagery thrown out of the window Themba “John” speaking Afrikaans english had subtitles (also aimed at non-english speaking native audience) 1976 Soweto’s school students boycott Afrikaans language Afrikaans develops not to be understood by masters? but why don’t they speak it then? violence…
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white supremacy, racism, racialism
in “White Supremacy: a comparative sutyd in american and south african history”, frederickson makes the distinction between white supremacy and racism. first, racism is too ambiguous. second, racism is an essentialistic mode of thought that gives racial attributes to given populations. (frederickson characterizes them as “the fact that populations groups that can be distinguished by…
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aphasic narrative in Spanglish
Independent Project Paper January 28, 2005 Yongho Kim In this paper I argue that the recently premiered film Spanglish, a documentary about the “integration” of a Mexican single mother into white U.S. society through the eyes of her daughter, represents a form of an essentialist reading of their social texts that can be analyzed using…
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Contested Bodies: Immigrants as a Singularity in Minnesota's Political Terrain
Contested Bodies: Immigrants as a Singularity in Minnesota’s Political Terrain Minnesota Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Internship Paper January 27, 2004 Yongho Kim The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride of 2003 was a national movement aimed at claiming immigrants’ rights in the legislative branches of the United States. It gathered a critical mass of religious, labor, progressive…
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anth490 negoatiating the course
Assignment: Bring in a list of at least 5 topics or skills you would like covered in the course. spotting statistical exaggerations and issues of overinterpretation as a student who had at most two weeks of training doing linear regressions, I want to learn the basics of faulty statistical analyses. macro phenomenoms as anthropologists mainly…
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a decommodification agenda by capturing state power?
so after reading Patrick Bond’s Strategies for Social Justice Movements from Southern Africa to the United States fpif.org/papers/0501movements_body.html Bond is thinking about circular state measures that eventually weaken local communities, and talks about fundamental change that doesn’t rely on state power, when he writes: …South Africa’s independent left fully understands the need to transcend national-scale…