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Colour Lines
This course takes a look at some of the issues surrounding race in the US, including history, society, and every-day life. The title “Colour Lines” refers to two overall aspects of the course:
First, it illustrates the lines that run through history. These are lines that connect the past with the present and show how past events have impacted present-day racial issues. In this connection, we will focus on the Black American experience.
Second, it deals with some of the invisible lines in modern America that still divide its citizens according to colour when it comes to areas of wealth, justice system and many more.
Fokusområder:
• Oral communication
• Researching topic
• Student presentation
• Analysing language and mood in fiction
• Analysing speeches with focus on rhetorical techniques
Kernemateriale:
• Background texts on Black history fra Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement: From Møller & Thomsen, Black Voices, Gyldendal;
• ’Slavery’ introduction pp. 8-14
• ’Separate but equal’ introduction pp. 60-63
• ’I am a man’ introduction pp. 96-98
• Paul Laurence Dunbar: ’The Lynching of Jube Benson’, short story (1904)
• Lynching postcards (lærerproduceret materiale)
• Martin Luther King: ’I have a dream’, speech (1963)
• Max Atkinson: ’Lend Me Your Ears’, chapter six ’The persuasive power of words – the use of rhetorical techniques’ (2004)
Supplerende materiale:
• Ana Duvernay: ’13th’, documentary (2016) (første 30 min.)
• ’Toolbox: Mood’ (lærerproduceret materiale)
• ’Toolbox for speech analysis’ (lærerproduceret materiale)
• ’The rhetorical pentagram’ (lærerproduceret materiale)
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