Cont Am Culture resources

I pulled these issues from the cards you gave me about the issues that you think are most important to know more about. I will keep adding to resources here and I am happy to have you propose some as well (please send me the link or the article or the podcast ahead of time so that I can have access to it). Periodically, you'll be responsible for accessing, taking notes and reflecting on one of these. For T 3, there are three due dates: last day of classes during the week of 2/11, last day of classes during the week of 3/4 and last day of classes during the week of 3/18. Here's what's due: on a regular sized notebook sheet: take down notes - write down interesting information, things that surprise you, etc. (these are bulleted and you should fill about 2/3rd of the page). Then, reflect on what you heard and how this contributes to your thinking about the issue(s) important to our culture. What did you learn and why does it matter? What is important about this story/resource? How does it help you to think about aspects of the issue that you haven't before How does it add to your understanding of American culture? How does it challenge your thinking? What more do you want to know? How does it connect to materials are talking abut in class? Fill at 2/3rds of a page. If you are taking the class for H credit, you will need to pull together a presentation (no more than 5 minutes) about at least one of the resources to present to class during the last week of March. This will count as an assessment grade. Our guiding quotes are here.

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People who you should know:

John Lewis - Get in the Way (this is a 52 minute documentary)

New Yorker: "The Many Lives of Pauli Murray"

Fannie Lou Hamer: Stand Up (1/2 hour documentary)

Stuff You Missed in History Class: "Dr. Susan La Flesche-Picotte"

Photographer Dawoud Bey

Race:

Fresh Air interviewed the author of a new book about Eric Garner.

This is a terrific, nuanced discussion about race and the police in one town in West Virginia (scroll down to "Community and Cops Talking Across the Divide.)"

Scene on Radio Season One: Seeing White (this is a multi part series - you can listen to any of them)

Code Switch: "When 'Miss' Meant So Much More."

On the Media: "The Worst Thing We've Ever Done."

Us&Them: "Shack!"

99% Invisible: "Notes on an Imagined Plaque

Code Switch: "To Start A Dialogue...Again"

Article: "The Rape of Recy Taylor"

Code Switch: "When 'Miss' Meant So Much More."

New Yorker: "The Many Lives of Pauli Murray"

Article: "From students in high school all the way to the president's desk..."

Article: " Classic Books are Full of Problems. Why Can't We Put Them Down?"

Fannie Lou Hamer: Stand Up (1/2 hour documentary)

Article: " The Racial Wealth Gap: Addressing America's Most Pressing Epidemic"

Article: Extensive Study Shows Reach of Racism in the Lives of Black Boys

Video: Redlining

Photographer Dawoud Bey

Article:"21 Savage and the False Promise of Black Citizenship"

This American Life: "The Problem We All Live With" (school desegregation) Part 1 Part 2

Radio Active: "The Racist History of Mispronouncing Names"

Native American:

Code Switch: "The Difficult Math of Being Native American"

More Perfect: "Adoptive Couple v Baby Girl"

Stuff You Missed in History Class: "Dr. Susan La Flesche-Picotte"

On Being: "Layla Long Soldier: The Freedom of Real Apologies"

Addiction:

Us & Them: 'Steve’s' Struggle Began with His Mom’s Prescription Opioids

TED talks about the opiod crisis.

"A Mother's Story"

LGBTQ+ history

This American Life: "81 Words" - the 1973 decision to remove homosexuality from American Psychiatric Association as a mental illness

Back Story: "Out of the Closet: The LGBTQ Community in American History."

99% Invisible: "Remembering Stonewall."

Landmark Cases: "Griswold v. CT"

Unerased: The History of Conversion Therapy. (this is a multi part series - you can listen to any of them)

Criminal: " Lavender Scare"

New Yorker: "The Many Lives of Pauli Murray"

Article: "How Same-Sex Couples Divide Chores and What it Tells Us About Modern Parenting"

Prison/prison reform:

BackStory: "Land of the Free? The History of Incarceration in the U.S."

Serial: Season 3

The New York Times: "He Committed Murder. Then He Graduated from an Elite Law School."

Caught

Library Talks Podcast: "Reforming America's Prisons."

Prison records and work

Poverty and prison cycle

An episode about Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "To Prisoners"

Article: "the Case for Capping all Prison Sentences at 20 Years"

Guns and the Second Amendment:

Radiolab Presents: More Perfect: "The Gun Show Reprise."

This American Life: "Before the Next One."

BackStory: "Guns v Speech: When Protesters are Armed"

Article: "How Active Shooter Became a Big (and Possibly Traumatizing Business"

Supreme Court:

RadioLab: More Perfect

Landmark Cases

Heightened Scrutiny : this is a terrific podcast about Supreme Court decisions. The episodes about about a half hour and they feature actual audio from the court arguments. Scroll down the page and hit the "load more episodes" button to see more.

Free Speech:

Landmark Cases: "Brandenburg v. Ohio."

Landmark Cases: "Tinker v. Des Moines."

Radiolab Presents: More Perfect: "The Hate Debate."

Heightened Scrutiny: "Texas v. Johnson" (flag burning)

Women's Rights/Women's issues:

RadioLab: More Perfect: Sex Appeal

Scene on Radio: "Himpathy"

Code Switch: "When 'Miss' Meant So Much More."

New Yorker: "The Many Lives of Pauli Murray"

Poetry Off The Shelf: "A Change of World" (this is a series - any or all are great)

Article: "A School Nurse Is On a Mission to Count Women Killed by Men"