| Ch. 13 Politics | ||
| Jamaica Kincaid, On Seeing England for the First Time | ||
| • | [text] http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1992/12/12/the-caribbean-is-more-than-colonialism/ | |
| Article exploring the development of Caribbean writing outside of the post-colonial themes embraced by writers like Jamaica Kincaid. | ||
Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience |
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| • | [text] http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/703/102937#lf0158_label_251 | |
| William Paley’s “Duty of Submission to Civil Government,” an essay that inspired and informed Thoreau in writing On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/17/nyregion/westchester-opinion-examining-king-s-nonviolent-resistance.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm | |
| New York Times article exploring the ways in which Thoreau’s essay directly influenced Dr. Martin Luther King’s views on nonviolent resistance. | ||
| Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address | ||
| • | [text] http://articles.latimes.com/2013/nov/15/nation/la-na-1116-gettysburg-apology-20131116 | |
| Los Angeles Times reports on the Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania issuing an apology for their negative review of the Gettysburg Address in 1863. | ||
| • | [text] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/gettysburg-address-displayed-at-smithsonian-91375815/ | |
| Smithsonian article about the development, delivery, and impact of Lincoln’s speech. | ||
| Virginia Woolf, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid | ||
| • | [text] http://www.charleston.org.uk/virginia-woolf-meets-sigmund-freud/ | |
| Article exploring how the ideas of Sigmund Freud influenced Virginia Woolf’s writing. | ||
| Chris Hedges, The Destruction of Culture | ||
| • | [text] http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/06/30/chris-hedges-how-do-we-reclaim-the-culture-that-was-destroyed-by-corporations-how-do-we-fight-back-now-that-the-consumer-culture-has-fallen-into-a-state-of-decay-what-can-we-do-to-reverse-the-can/ | |
| Another article by Chris Hedges describing the ways in which a state can destroy its own culture. | ||
| • | [website] https://www.truthdig.com/author/chris_hedges/ | |
| Collection of links to additional articles by Chris Hedges. | ||
| Laura Blumenfeld, The Apology: Letters from a Terrorist | ||
| • | [video] http://www.c-span.org/video/?169776-1/book-discussion-revenge-story-hope | |
| Laura Blumenfeld tells the story behind her book Revenge: A Story of Hope. | ||
| Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot | ||
| • | [audio] http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/239/lost-in-america | |
| Sarah Vowell tells the story behind “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” and the complicated patriotism that comes with its complex history. [(21:50 – 37:30) Act Two: Teacher Hit Me With a Ruler] | ||
| Marjane Satrapi, The Veil (graphic memoir) | ||
| • | [text] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/dec/12/gender.uk | |
| Article by Marjane Satrapi in which she claims it is just as bad to force girls not to wear a veil as it is to force them to. | ||
| Tim O’Brien, On the Rainy River | ||
| • | [videos] ]http://www.c-span.org/video/?188938-1/book-discussion-things-carried | |
| Tim O'Brian discusses and reads from The Things They Carried. | ||
| Pablo Picasso, Guernica (painting) | ||
| • | [text] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7986540.stm | |
| BBC News article dissecting Guernica and exploring the possible meanings of the figures that it depicts. | ||
| New Yorker, March 17, 2003 (cover) | ||
| • | [text] https://www.weeklystandard.com/claudia-winkler/the-guernica-myth | |
| Article countering the supposed myth that Colin Powell forced the U.N. to cover Picasso�s Guernica while he made the case for war in Iraq. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/new-yorker/72 | |
| Online gallery of New Yorker covers. | ||
| Harper’s, April 2003 (cover) | ||
| • | [text] http://cloudtransit.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/the-cover-up/ | |
| Blog post addressing the political meaning behind the April 2003 cover of Harper’s. | ||
| • | [website] http://www.harpers.org/archive/2003/04 | |
| Official Harper’s website with pictures and details about the April 2003 issue. | ||
| Christopher Columbus, Letter to King Ferdinand of Spain | ||
| • | [text] http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-064/summary/index.asp | |
| Background information on Columbus’s “colonization letter.” | ||
| Red Jacket, Defense of Native American Religion | ||
| • | [text] http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2536601275.html | |
| Encyclopedia article detailing the Native American response to the Christianization attempts of the colonists. | ||
| • | [text] https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/red-jacket-seneca-war-chief.htm | |
| Biographical information about the Native American leader Red Jacket. | ||
| George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant | ||
| • | [audio] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4761169 | |
| An interview with Emma Larkin about her book, Finding George Orwell in Burma. | ||
| Frantz Fanon, Concerning Violence (from The Wretched of the Earth) | ||
| • | [audio & text] http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138254948/fanon#excerpt | |
| An interview on and an excerpt from John Edgar Wideman’s partly-fictional portrait of Frantz Fanon. | ||
| Eavan Boland, In Which the Ancient History I Learn is Not My Own (poetry) | ||
| • | [video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFvVlhKa8O8 | |
| Eavan Boland shares other poems about Ireland and history. | ||
| Chinua Achebe, The Empire Fights Back | ||
| • | [audio] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113835207 | |
| Chinua Achebe speaks about the representation of African natives in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, addressing the damage it does to the education of African children growing up in colonial contexts. | ||
| National Park Service, Christiansted: Official Map and Guide (brochure) | ||
| • | [text] http://www.best-virgin-islands-guide.com/virgin-island-history.html | |
| History of the Virgin Islands through the period of Danish colonization. | ||
| • | [text] http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2004120060_webvirginislands16.html | |
| Seattle Times article about the affinity that modern Danish tourists have for the Virgin Islands, which they once colonized. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.nps.gov/chri/historyculture/index.htm | |
| Brief mission statement of the Christiansted National Historic Site in the Virgin Islands. | ||