Dancing Around the Rubric Questions: Analyzing Peggy McIntosh’s “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”

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Here I discuss student reactions in the past to Peggy McIntosh’s 1989 article on “White Privilege.” Some students have said that this article is out of date and does not really apply to today.  Or is that reaction just a dodge to avoid recognizing the reality of white privilege?  Such avoidance may actually “prove” McIntosh’s case.  Make sure you supply her definition of white privilege in your Reflection post, as you answer all of the rubric questions for this assignment.

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The Power of Inference: An Audio Recording at 12:30 pm CST in Dealey Plaza, 11/22/1963?

John F. Kennedy, Kennedy Assassination, Memory

In this podcast we look at how primary sources, in this case an audio recording purporting to be from Dealey plaza during the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, can raise questions tentatively resolved through inference.  In this case, the inference proved correct, confirmed by additional research.

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Unit 5, Discussion 2: Fascism Ascendant and Democracy Under Siege, 1919-1939

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Joan Dudley, “Under the swastika,: A Protest against Fascism

hat were the six features of Fascism? In this podcast, we learn what ideas Fascism consisted of and how it arose during the years in-between the two World Wars and set the stage for the outbreak of the Second World War.

 

 

 

 

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Unit 4, Discussion 5: Imperialism and the Long Fuse to World War I, 1860-1914

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Great Britain encourages a skeptical Uncle Sam to jump in to the swimming pool of imperialism…

“The Duty of Great Nations,” by Udo Keppler (1899). John Bull of Great Britain is encouraging a skeptical Uncle Sam to jump on the imperialism bandwagon with England. Soon, Uncle Sam would practice imperialism himself.

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Unit 4, Discussion 3: Marx and Marxism

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The theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, presented in the Communist Manifesto (1848), was yet another theory of progress so popular in the nineteenth century, along with Darwinism, Positivism and nationalism. Marxism was popular with the proletarians created by the Industrial Revolution, because it predicted that they would one day win a successful proletarian revolution against the bourgeoisie all over the world, one whose success was the inevitable product of class conflict between the two classes. For the same reason, the middle class hated this theory and fought the rise of the proletariat. The theories of Marx and Engels would never be borne out or live up to their predictions. BUt it was a major fear factor that explains much about the politics of the middle class in the late nineteenth century and the birth of social welfare legislation, which Marx had never foreseen or predicted.

 

Karl Marx, the Principle author of “The Communist Manifesto” (1848)

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Unit 4, Discussion 2: Darwin and His Descendants

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Who was Charles Darwin, this Newton of the Nineteenth century? And what was his theory of the evolution of species by natural selection. How did it impact virtually every aspect of Western Civilization, from political ideologies to psychology and philosophy? In this special landmark podcast, Dr. Reiman explores his significance.

Darwin in 1870.

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