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Test di B2 della facoltà

OBBLIGATORIO: Una dispensa con tutti gli articoli, documenti e essays è disponibile in copisteria Il Prato.
Essays consigliati: (incluse nella dispensa) Brent Staples Black Men and Public Space; Gerald Early Their Malcom, My Problem; Jewelle Gomez A Swimming Lesson and Gloria Naylor Mommy, What Does ‘Nigger’ Mean?
The Children by David Halberstam

Obbiettivi formativi: Il primo e secondo modulo passano in rassegna una serie di arictoli ed editoriali scritti durante il “Civil Rights Movement” negli Stati Uniti durante gli anni 60. Inoltre si analizzeranno alcune sentenze della Corte Suprema e vari discorsi del Presdient John F. Kennedy e del leader del movemento Dr. Martin L. King. Poi, gli eventi saranno esaminati da un punto di vista storica attraverso l’esame dell’opinione espresse nei vari giornali piu importanti e nei discorsi del Presdient Barack Obama negli ultimi anni.

Test di B2 della facoltà

Lezioni di didattica frontale: Totale ore 42

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Un esame orale a fine corso basato sul contenuto e analyses dei documenti.

History of race in America, excerpt from The Children by David Halberstam, the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln, the XIII, XIV and XV amendments to the US Constitution, The Supreme Court decision of Plessey v. Ferguson, , editorial “Race Barriers Down” “A Wrong Righted”, Supreme Court decision 1954 Brown v Board of Education, article “115 Negroes Accused of Bus Boycott”, editorial “Montgomery Has an Opportunity”, Rosa Parks’ arrest record, editorial “Crime Wave in Alabama”, Jackie Robinson’s letter to JFK, article “Alabama Expels 9 Negro Students”, JFK’s speech on Civil Rights (1963), “A Call to Unity” and Martin Luther King’s response “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963) and his speech “I Have a Dream”(1963), Civil Rights Act of 1964 Title II, editorials “Civil Rights Bill-II” and “The Issue-Civil Rights”, “Martin Luther King Wins Nobel Peace Prize”, MLK’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, articles “The Dawn of Civil Rights”, “Black Civil Rights’ activist shot”, editorial “Journey Against Fear”, editorial James’ Meredith’s Journey, the case of a mixed marriage in Virginia (2 articles), article “Faubus Legacy in Arkansas”, articles from TIME on Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Jackie Robinson, brief biography of Martin Luther King, editorials “Freedom of Equality”, “Brown v Board of Education”, “Brown v Board of Education: An equivocal anniversary”, editorial “Change Gotta Come”, speech by Barack Obama on Rosa Parks (2005), articles “Rosa Parks and history” and “Rosa Parks America”, Barack Obama speech on Civil Rights (2006), editorial “Unequal: the Sequel”, article “Despite all, the world continues to spin forward”, “A Victory that Revolutionizes Civil Rights” and the article “A Journey from Ebbetts Field to the Steps of the Capitol.”

Films and documentaries: Martin Luther King: A Documentary; The Color Purple; A Time to Kill; Mississippi Burning