Category: school
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memos, Joy Ann James Keynote Speech
Duchess Harris quote: (not exact) I’m the chair of American Studies, we deal with comparative Racial Formations and we are excited to be part of the curriculum ow! existential crisis! African American Studies Conference Incarcerated Intelligence: African Americans and the Prison Industrial Complex macalester.edu/americanstudies/conference/ Joy Ann James keynote speech: Democracy and Captivity memos James shows…
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February 10 2005 Senior Seminar Yongho Kim Assignment…
February 10, 2005 Senior Seminar Yongho Kim Assignment: Write a tight one or two-page summary of your final paper topic. Explain what work has already been done and what remains to be done in this course. Be specific in explaining what remains to be done. For example, if you have already gathered data on a…
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notes med anth kuru
mentioning the kuru horizontal and vertical extent case study TSE rasminss spongeform encaphelopathie infection sickness mad cow deasease is a kind of TSe BSE -> food, cattle carcasses preventing BSE agent become more virulent as it crossed species barriers + mathemin homozygots wild game feasting hepatitis -> anonymous sex college campuses: high mobility
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so andrè carrington is coming to mac on…
so andrè carrington is coming to mac on the af-am conference, if i heard it well in class! so tawanda was saying back in spring: you won’t bring him NOW. the school better pay him some heavy bucks if you plan on bringing a NYU scholar, after messing with him while being an undegrad. i…
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Bamboozled, Mandela, and the Dialectics of Racism-Capitalism. class notes
AMST394-11 Freedom Movements. Class notes, Feb 7 music played: Mbongan Nugema. how to find articles on Safundi, which spans a broader spectrum of research done on sa www.safundi.com/members/login.asp . rachleff )the dept?) purchased a semester-long access for the whole class. username: school, pass: here will announced first diversity weekend meeting. thursday 9pm, cc215 african american…
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notes, seminar. anthro in a nutshell
handout: http://wiki.adelantemac.org/Anthropology_in_a_Nutshell british don’t like “culture” -> colonial mission, maintaining french -> things inside the head, rationalism foucault, levi strats -> like comets! they come and go LTAM new anthro, no impact school training is system-adaptive, thoughts extensions notes on the handout: culture -> cultivate ethnography=cultural anthro ethnology=comparative cross-cultural study of human cultures fight against…
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aurora levins morales
aurora levins morales talk, 12:00pm sense of history -> resistance destruction of memory -> subjugation (makes oppressedness seem like a natural aspect of the peoples lives) self as an counterexample “adwomenster (sp)” Nelson Myers 1898, spanish war, great plains, arabian peninsula, immigrants Puerto Rico, intermediaries, the work of women, produce ginger, used for the working…
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RE: Freedom Movements Technology
EDIT: good reference en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software blah, I got tired of writing this. kind of pointless, anyway, now that the blog is up there. it’s just another semester of classes.
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film notes, bamboozled
is Delacroix playing the west indian? misrep people? why is his room (the white boss) full of “negro” stuff? “variety skit show” boss at the middle, evaluators to the side, the performer in the middle is he wearing the arab stuff on purpose? urgency/diff
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anth380 sexual networks in jefferson school article
Medical Anthropology class, this is the coverage on the study of high school romantic and sexual networks that I mentioned today in class. This is the link to the paper: Chains of Affection: The Structure of Adolescent Romantic and Sexual Networks Peter S. Bearman, Columbia University James Moody, Ohio State University Katherine Stovel, University of…
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anth490 sample letter to prospective employer
Assignment: Write a one-page introduction of yourself to a specific, prospective employer or graduate 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…
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[Jack Weatherford] ANTH490 Checklist for Invited Speakers
Checklist for Invited Speakers: Anthropology 490 Before the Class: 1. Explain to the speaker carefully what you want the speaker to do. 2. Find out if any special equipment or handouts are needed. 3. Decide on the format with the speaker. How long will the speaker speak? Is the speaker one member of a panel?…
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Protected: MNFR second journal entry
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Class Notes. movements. Introduction
class notes, Freedom Movements January 24, 2005 -SNVC (?) we are reading M.L.King and N.Mandela, not because they are everything that their respective movements represented, but in order to get an initial idea of what the main body of texts “representative” in public discourse of the movements is about. That way it is possible to…