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The American Dream? (Værklæsning 3) EKSAMEN
In this course we've worked with American identity and the history of America with a focus on the values and beliefs inherent in the American dream. We have read about the founding fathers and the vision/idea of America and it's development.
Also we have read Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and worked with the history of the US as a multicultural society and more specifically with the experience of being black in the US, black people's fight for civil rights and for being included in society - then and now.
Keywords: idealism, constitutional rights, self-reliance, can-do-spirit, the selfmade man, the frontier spirit, slavery, emancipation, segregation, civil-rights movement, AAVE, melting-pot/salad bowl, cultural diversity/multiculturalism, systemic racism.
Texts from the compendium:
Holm, Mette (2016): Being American : identity, politics and contemporary society. 1.udgave. Gyldendal, s.8-12, 14-19
Datesman et al. (2005): American Ways: An Introduction to American Culture.. Pearson. s. 166-173
Erlich-Møller og Thomsen (2016), Black Voices. Gyldendal. s. 74-77, 81-83, 119-128
Zhao, Harry (2021), "AAVE and Language Colonialism" (online article) www.sticktochange.org/post/aave-and-language-colonialism (hentet 23/11-2021)
Primary texts:
Emma Lazarus (1883), "The New Colossus"
Walt Whitman (1867), "I Hear America Singing"
Langston Hughes, "I, Too, Sing", poem (1925)
Martin Luther King, "I Have a Dream" (1963)
Barach Obama, excerpt from "A more perfect Union" (speech) (2008)
W. Kamau Bell, "On Being a Black Male, Six Feet Four Inches Tall, in America in 2014" from Vanity Fair (2014)
Maurice Carlos Ruffin, "Beg, Borrow, Steal"
Film:
Ava DuVernay, "Selma" (2015)
Literary work:
Lee, Harper (1960), "To Kill a Mockingbird", (336 pages)
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