Resources for May 5, 2015

Holloway, Jonathan. "AFAM 162 - African American History: From Emancipation to the Present." Open Yale Courses (Spring 2010) ["The purpose of this course is to examine the African American experience in the United States from 1863 to the present. Prominent themes include the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction; African Americans’ urbanization experiences; the development of the modern civil rights movement and its aftermath; and the thought and leadership of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X."]

Adams, Melissa. "Bloody Diamonds." Dialogic Cinephilia (May 4, 2015)

Belfiglio, Natalie. "Blood in the Water." Dialogic Cinephilia (May 5, 2015)

Houkal, Chris. "Serbian Five-String Serenade." Facets Features (December 15, 2014)





Podcasts/Videocasts/Courses Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Kennedy, A.L. "Sartre and the Individual." A History of Ideas (April 15, 2015) ["Writer AL Kennedy on Existentialist ideas about the individual. Jean Paul Sartre argued that, for humans, 'existence preceded essence'. This means that there is no blueprint or template from which to work - humans are free to make themselves up as they go along. Being an individual comes from the way you negotiate this freedom and the choices you make in the face of it."]