jeanne and Arnold off to Africa

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Africa, Africa
Building a New Imaginary

This is the last week of Weekly materials until July,
when jeanne will put up lots of new paintings on Africa.

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Syllabi for Fall 2001

All the syllabi are started so you can see how they're going. Use Special Topics: Transformative Discourse to see what the discussions and activities will be like. There are samples there.
I've included study ahead materials for all the courses.
Check out last week, too. Have fun! jeanne

To use the site for summer study, consult Materials for Studying over the Summer or pick up a copy of that sheet in the Sociology Office.

See you in July! jeanne

You Gotta Read This:

• Leonardo Boff - Brazil Third World Traveler. This brief description will give you some idea about Boff, and why I am ordering his Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor for Transforming Discourse in Fall 2001. English Translation, 1997. Boff speaks of paradigm shifts in much the way that Gordon Fellman does, and he gives in this text a sensible approach to bringing the sociology of religion into our discussions. Our discussions on religion in theory class last Spring made it clear that we need this piece in understanding social justice.

  

• Stolen Lives: Killed by Law Enforcement (2nd edition) On Amazon.com. backup This one is up for Thynesia Harris who has started a study with Wisconsin on lives taken by police brutality. Be sure to check out the reviews: Reviews of Stolen Lives on Amazon.com.

• Shootings in Nepal Royal Family So we're not so different, after all!

• Texts for Your Choosing Added Gourevitch's We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families to the list of choices.

• Fledgling Publications: The Writers on Our Site Introduction.

• Kendell Geers' Homepage in South Africa Kendell Geer works out of Johannesburg.
  • Invitation to Kendell Geers' Ehibition, Guilty.
  • Kendell Geers' response to German Ambassador's Taking Offense at the Invitation to Guilty Includes also an explication of what Geers meant by the photo used for the invitation to Guilty.
  • the horror, the horror Geers speaks as a White South African.
  • Tables and Graphs as Visual Expression: Schools and Testing I just started this file. But this is a good table to experiment with. Pat will have the California Educator article if some of you want to play with it. More in July. jeanne
  • Drawing after Basquiat added. This offers an example of the kind of interactive art projects that will be options in all four classes next Fall. The possible tables and figures available for this set of data offer you material you can play with this summer.
  • The Organization Kid Susan told me about this just before we took off. Enjoy. Essays later. jeanne

  Art We've Been Studying and Painting:

  • Leonardo: The Last Supper. Art to depict expression. Fourteen images online of the newly restored Last Supper. Don't miss it!"

  • Expressing Ourselves in Art This teaching essay explains how a collection of collaged images from the Internet can helps us express what we're feeling with the simplest of free software programs. You don't have to be an artist. (You DO have to give credit to your sources by identifying their work! And you may not publish other people's work as your own.)

  • A Painting Project On Agency and Structural Context in a First Grade Class.

  • Labor Solidarity Has no Borders Mike Alewitz. Mural. California.
  • What are "The Dreams of HarrietTubman" By Mike Alewitz, Muralist, 1 May 2000.
  • The Resurrection of Wesley Everest by Mike Alewitz The Completed Centralia Mural.
  • The Worker in the New World Order Five murals by Mike Alewitz.
  • Insurgent Images by Mike Alewitz and Paul Buhle. It was through an article by Buhle in Radical History Review that I became acquainted with Mike Alewitz' work. jeanne

  • The Mural Conservancy Program of Los Angeles
  • The Mural Rescue Program
  • Index of Los Angeles Murals

  • Roles of Women in African Art in the family, in society, in the spirit world Student Exhibition by Jayne F. Matricardi. Niicely put together exhibit. Enjoy. jeanne

  • Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova by Donald Goddard. Some very nice work in this exhibit, and an interesting discussion of the work. Don't miss it. jeanne

  • Into Africa by Joy Garnett. Excellent article with discussions of post-apartheid and the development of South Africa's identity and the "transitional reshaping and reconstitution of its reality; between authenticity and stereotype."

    Be sure to see the following three pieces, all by well known contemporary African artists:

    • Untitled by Mbongeni Richman Buthelezi of South Africa.
    • Reading the Contemporary with cover photo by Yinka Shonibare.
    • Pumpin' Ain't Easy Chris Ofili, 1997.

  • National Portrait Gallery London. Educational Showcase. Plan to use this site to construct some interactive art projects for Fall 2001. jeanne

  • James Gillray: the Art of Caricature at the Tate Britain in London. This is a lovely tour of the exhibition online. Arnold and I will definitely be there next week. jeanne

  • The Mongrel Tate Collection Site The visions and voice of the "Other".

  • Zing Magazine Another site that gives me ideas for interactive art projects. This one is by Bob Seng. Variations on EXIT. Lots of Java Script errors. Just click OK until they go away. We'll work with this in July. jeanne

  • The Tate Explains the Mongrel Tate

  • Tables and Graphs as Visual Expression: Schools and Testing I just started this file. But this is a good table to experiment with. Pat will have the California Educator article if some of you want to play with it. More in July. jeanne

  • Visual Learning & Graphic Organizers Suggested Reading Will put up an essay on this in July. jeanne

    • Research Paper Plan Visual Plan.
    • Research Paper Plan Outline View. Locate the links to switch between the two views in the upper left hand corner of your screen.

  Teaching Essays:

  • Massacre in the Nepal Royal Family and School Shootings

  • Cuba's Economic Lessons Added link to William Solomon's post on Progressive Sociologists Net on speech of World Bank President, James Wolfenson. More up in July, 2001.

  • Rwanda and a New Imaginary Review and teaching essay on We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families By Phili Gourevictch.

    Fanon:

    • Routledge Subject Search Enter fanon as keyword and press GO! Then, link to:

      Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences by Lewis Gordon. 1995. On Routledge Press Site. Good review of Gordon's text.

    • Routledge Subject Search Enter fanon as keyword and press GO! Then, link to:

      Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives by Anthony Alessandrini, 1999.

      Essays not yet up, but I'll be teaching with these in Fall 2001. jeanne

  • Cuba's Economic Lessons Added links to two comments from Progressive Sociologists Net.

  • Liberation Theology: Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit Essay by Patricia Acone.

  • Cuba: Left and Right Long and detailed posts on the complexity of Marxism, left and right perspectives, in Cuba. Brings us up to current posts on topic.

  • Rwanda Added Related References link under icon. One of these references is to a New York Times article on Sister Gertrude, the Mother Superior of a convent at which hundreds of Tutsi refugees were allegedly driven into the hands of Hutus who slaughtered them..

  • Schools in California: What High-Stakes Testing Can't Fix This essay will deal with social justice in education, and with presenting data effectively with tables and graphs. I can't put the rest of it up right now, but you might want to experiment with various ways to show the data in both tables and graphs. Pat will have the California Educator article. jeanne

  • Art work of Jin Xu, daughter of prominent Chinese dissident, Xu Wenli. Essay will discuss the role of art in the expression of dissidence.

  • Sticky Interpersonal Relationships A Short History on Rudeness.

  • Branches of Government Notice that it is part of Inspiration's visual learning package. Will set up essay for this in July. jeanne

  • Rwanda Links added to related references on the conviction of two nuns in the Belgian trial.

  • McVeigh and The Dramaturgy of Death by Garry Wills. On the death penalty. New York Review of Books. June 21, 2001. Link to New York Review of Books article. Essay not up until July. jeanne

  • The Legacy of the Anti-Communist Liberal Intellectuals by Ronald Radosh. The Partisan Review.

  • 'Moral' Execution By Bruce Shapiro. The Nation. Special report. Web only. June 6, 2001. "Execution of the retarded exposes the inequity and cruelty that is the essential scaffolding of capital punishment."

  • The Death Penalty New file. Issues on the death penalty. Essays up in July. jeanne

  • A Holy Place in China Fights for Its Life, Body and Soul by Erik Eckholm, June 10, 2001. New York Times. Essay up in July on theology, ethics, religion, and social justice. jeanne. backup

  • Editor in Nepal Is Jailed for Printing Account of Royal Massacre By Celia W. Dugger. backup

  • American Prisons and Prisoners Study Guide Dr. Dorothy McClellan's Homepage. Check out Study Guide 2 on Hostage Negotiation. this is an excellent site, particularly on corrections and, rights of prisoners, and juvenile delinquency. All of these overlap with social justice studies and will fit in with our discussions. Browse the site. More up in July. jeanne

    Methods

    • Howard Becker's Tricks of the Trade Highly recommended for my students doing research. More teaching essays up in July 2001. jeanne
    • New text: Methods of Social Research. Thomas J. Sullivan, Northern Michigan University. 2001. Harcourt College Publishers. Particularly good at summarizing the main points. Did not order it because I'm not teaching a course in Methods. But will reference it in all my classes. Teaching essays up in July, 2001. jeanne

  • Slavery, Race, and Alterity Shared comments. Important issue of slavery as power and interpersonal relationships. Race and color often involved, but certainly not limiting. More on this in July. jeanne

  • Theory Resources Page Revised a little for missing links. Should be useful if you want to study ahead for theory. jeanne

  • Sociology of Law Added some lecture notes. jeanne

  Studying Ahead for Fall 2001:

  • Transforming Discourse This is the format I plan to use for courses this Fall 2001. Check it out. You'll see that I've incorporated a lot of wha we did in Spring 2001 and given you lots more guidance on measurement. jeanne

    Projects you might want to undertake this summer:

    These files were put up also during the first week of summer:

    • A Painting Project On Agency and Structural Context in a First Grade Class.
    • Jonathan Kozol Links New file started for Transforming Discourse Class.
    • Trivia Quiz for Agency and Structural Context in a First Grade Classroom
    • Che Guevara and Paulo Freire and Pedagogy of the Revolution
      First Reading from text for Transforming Discourse Class.
    • More soon . . . . jeanne

  • Non-Linear Social Dynamics: the Jeffords Event by TR Young. TR is applying chaos theory to political sociology. I'll cover chaos theory in the Fall of 2001. Only the link to TR Young's PSN comments is up. Essay when I get back in July. jeanne

    Sites I'll be exploring in July:

    • Peace and Anti-Racism Explore. We'll share in July. jeanne
    • Labor Section Website Has mural by Mike Alewitz.
    • Expressions of Nicaragua

    • United Nations Site on Refugees

    • The Center for Public Intellectuals This site offers ideas on connecting intellectuals to the community. You are the intellectuals. Let's connect. More in July. jeanne

    • Ipse Dixit A recovering alcoholic, judging by his writing, and one who was happy to see Timothy McVeigh die. Topics up on anthropology and other topics. Will check it out in July. jeanne

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