The media files linked below are current options. If the item was
presented by me during class, it is not a legitimate option. Occasionally,
in class, I will also announce lectures or other events you may attend and
respond to for extra credit. All extra credit for Spring 2011 is due by
Friday, April 29 (no exceptions). You may submit extra credit work via
email, to my
mailbox (#300), or in person.
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 WE
SHALL REMAIN is a five-part television series that shows how Native
peoples valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the
extinction of their culture -- from the Wampanoags of New England in the
1600s who used their alliance with the English to weaken rival tribes,
to the bold new leaders of the 1970s who harnessed the momentum of the
civil rights movement to forge a pan-Indian identity. We Shall Remain
represents an unprecedented collaboration between Native and non-Native
filmmakers and involves Native advisors and scholars at all levels of
the project. You can download all five complete episodes for free. Each
episode counts as one extra credit assignment.
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Episode 1: AFTER THE MAYFLOWER: In 1621, the Wampanoag of
New England negotiated a treaty with Pilgrim settlers. A
half-century later, as a brutal war flared between the English
and a confederation of Indians, this diplomatic gamble seemed to
have been a grave miscalculation. |
Episode 2: TECUMSEH'S VISION: In the course of his brief and
meteoric career, Tecumseh would become one of the greatest
Native American leaders of all time, orchestrating the most
ambitious pan-Indian resistance movement ever mounted on the
North American continent. |
Episode 3: Trail of
Tears: Though the Cherokee embraced “civilization”
and won recognition of tribal sovereignty in the U.S. Supreme
Court, their resistance to removal from their homeland failed.
Thousands were forced on a perilous march to Oklahoma. |
Episode 4: Geronimo:
As the leader of the last Native American fighting force to
capitulate to the U.S. government, Geronimo was seen by some as
the perpetrator of unspeakable savage cruelties, while to others
he was the embodiment of proud resistance |
Episode 5: Wounded Knee:
In 1973, American Indian Movement activists and residents of the
Pine Ridge Reservation occupied the town of Wounded Knee,
demanding redress for grievances. As a result of the siege,
Indians across the country forged a new path into the future |
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| The QC Theatre Guild and the Pride Alliance co-sponsor a weekly film
series. Any of the films we show are options for extra credit. Watch
campus announcements as well as this space. Fall 2009 films:
BOYS DON'T CRY
DIFFERENT FOR GIRLS
EDDIE IZZARD: DRESS TO
KILL
FRIDA
LONGTIME COMPANION
OUTRAGE
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"Race: The Power of an Illusion" is a California Newsreel series aired on PBS
that examines the history and problematics of race in American culture.
The DVD is
available in QCC's Alden Library. The series also has a
content-rich
website, if you're interested (optional). You may watch one, two, or all
three episodes; each episode counts as one extra credit assignment.
- The Difference Between Us explores how recent scientific
discoveries have toppled the concept of biological race.
- The Story We Tell questions the belief that race has
always been with us. It traces the race concept to the European
conquest of the Americas.
- The House We Live In focuses on how our institutions
shape and create race.
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| Four video mash-ups of artistic and cultural images, including
women in art,
women
in film, men in art,
and men in film. |
| John Leguizamo
performing "Pepe" from his one-man show "Mambo Mouth" |
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How The Other Half Lives,
by Jacob Riis |
This pioneering work of
photojournalism by Jacob
Riis focused on the
plight of the poor in
the Lower East Side, and
greatly influenced
future "muckraking"
journalism. Riis ![Street Arabs in sleeping quarters [areaway, Mulberry St.]](images/159.jpg) was
able to venture into the
dimly lit areas of tenements and document
the wretched conditions
in which the "other
half" lived and worked.
Riis's work was also
pioneering in that he
mostly attributed the
plight of the poor to
environmental
conditions. However, his
work was not without its
flaws. He divided the
poor into two
categories: deserving of
assistance (mostly women
and children) and
undeserving (mostly the
unemployed and
intractably criminal).
He wrote with prejudice
about Jews, Italians,
and Irish, and he
stopped short of calling
for government
intervention. Still, his
work inspired a genuine
sympathy for his
subjects, and his work
shocked most wealthy New
Yorkers who had no idea
such a world existed
within a few miles of
their own opulent
neighborhoods. ( Explore the
photos; you
don't have to read the
whole thing to receive
extra credit.) |
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Are Your Friends Making You Fat? |
Your friends — and even your friends’ friends — can make
you quit smoking, eat too much or get happy. A look inside the emerging
science of social contagion. |
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The
Women’s Crusade |
The liberation of women could help solve
many of the world’s problems, from poverty to child mortality to
terrorism. |
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Brave New World of Digital Intimacy |
The effects of News Feed, Twitter and other forms of
incessant online contact. |
| "The Opt-out
Revolution" |
examines women's choices to leave the paid labor force to raise
small children |
| "Raising Kevion"
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introduces a family struggling to raise a child |
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"When Girls Will Be Boys" |
investigates transmale students at women's
colleges |
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"Double Lives of the Down Low" |
presents controversial sexual decision making
by men of color |
| "The Women's
War" |
follows female veterans of the Iraq-Afghanistan war after returning
stateside |
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"Bringing It All Back Home" |
tells stories of returning Iraq-Afghanistan war
vets |
| Remade
in America Part 1: Where Education and Assimilation Collide |
A record influx of immigrants has put classrooms on the front lines
of America’s battles over whether and how to assimilate the newcomers
and their children. |
| Remade
in America Part 2: A Slippery Place in the U.S. Work Force |
Many immigrants from Latin America are learning how uncertain their
foothold is in the work force. |
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Remade in America Part 3: Foreign Ways and War Scars Test Hospital |
Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis offers an
extraordinary vantage point on the ways immigrants are testing
the medical establishment.
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| Remade
in America Part 4: Texas Mayor Caught in Deportation Furor |
Mayor Herbert A. Gears realized his own political future
depended on how he navigated the treacherous terrain over
immigration.
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Remade in America Part 5: Tech Recruiting Clashes With Immigration Rules |
Technology executives say restrictive visa and immigration
limits have imperiled their ability to hire more of the world’s
best engineers.
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| Remade
in America Part 6: Struggling to Rise in Suburbs Where Failing Means
Fitting In |
One in four American youths is an immigrant or a child of one,
and a troubled minority of them offers cause for alarm.
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Remade in America Part 7: A Family Divided by 2 Words, Legal and Illegal |
A Queens family is struggling with the limited opportunities
that illegal immigrants face and the burdens and possibilities
of a son’s American citizenship.
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Her Body, My Baby |
Cathy was good at being pregnant. Alex wasn’t. Journalist Alex
Kuczynski's adventures in gestational surrogacy.
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Who Knew I Was Not the Father? |
DNA testing has led more men to discover that their children are
not biologically theirs. Families are upended, and so is the
law.
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Keeping Up With Being Kept |
The Web site Seeking Arrangement makes it easy for “sugar
daddies” to connect with “sugar babies.” But the relationships
it fosters are far from simple.
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Is
There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism? |
Fearing food shortages, investors from wealthy countries are
snapping up land in poor countries to grow food there. Is this
development or exploitation?
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Whom Will You Marry? |
In 1919 Laura Ingalls Wilder (yes, that Laura
Ingalls Wilder!) offered advice to a young friend. That advice
might surprise you! |
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Friends, Friends With Benefits and the Benefits of the Local Mall |
Whatever happened to teen romance? Life inside the under-age
sexual revolution.
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Coming
Out in Middle School |
How 13-year-old kids are dealing with their sexual identity —
and how others are dealing with them.
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