FS102 Annotated Bibliography
Arnwine, Barbara R. "50 Years of Moving Forward: A Reflection on
Civil Rights." 50 Years
of
Moving Forward: A
Reflection on Civil Rights.
N.p., 9 Jan. 2013. Web. 31 Mar. 2014.
Barbra
Arnwine discusses the fifty years that have passed since the major launch of
the
civil
rights movement, and how many civil rights victories and struggles have passed
through
the U.S. court system over the years.
Brother Outsider. Dir.
Nancy D. Kates and Bennett Singer. 2003. Film. The movie Brother
Outsider follows the
life of the social rights activist Bayard Rustin. It follows Rustin’s
life and his struggles
as a colored homosexual man in a time when racial segregation was
a big issue and
homosexuality was not acceptable. The
movie also goes into Rustin’s
influence on Martin
Luther King Jr. as well as where Rustin himself was influenced.
Buckley, Paul. “Civil
Rights and Its Challenge to Higher Education.” Ford Chapel, Allegheny
College. 20 Jan. 2003. Using King’s sermon on the width, breadth, and
height of life as a
starting point, Buckley discussed
the role of civil rights in higher education, focusing on diversity
and how it can and should affect our college careers in a
positive way.
Chameides, Bill. "Art Makes Environmental Change Real |
Conservation." Conservation
RSS.
University of
Washington, 24 Jan. 2014. Web. 01 Apr. 2014. Bill Chameides discusses
the difficulties of
convincing Americans that climate change exists and is a big problem
in today’s society. Chasing Ice is cited in the article as one of
the major action works.
Colby,
Anne., And William Damon. Some Do Care: Contemporary Lives of Moral
Commitment. New
York, NY, 1992. Discusses the
ongoing questions about the role of morals and values in
leadership, where those morals come
from, and why leaders have them and stick to them. A few
historical leaders are used as examples, and their lives
are cited as evidence to suggested
reasons.
Felshin, Nina. But Is
It Art?: The Spirit of Art as Activism. Seattle: Bay, 1995. Print. This
reading
discusses the origins
of activist art, and examines specific art pieces themselves as well as
the artists who created
them.
Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. " They Say/I Say": The
Moves that Matter in Persuasive
Writing. WW Norton & Company, 2007. This book
breaks down the complexity
of what makes
well-written papers, using provided templates to show readers how to
construct a
“they-say/I-say” argument.
King
Jr., Martin Luther. “I Have a Dream.” Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. 28 Aug.
1963. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the
people on the March on Washington as well as the rest of
the nation on the segregation and
racial issues at were at hand. He is
making a statement that
those who believe in equal rights
for all of those affected by injustices will stand together until
changes are made to our social structure.
King
Jr., Martin Luther. “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Letter to Fellow Clergymen.
16 April. 1963. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. writes a letter to his “fellow clergymen”
from Birmingham jail,
attempting to reach out to them and
speak with reason so they can all see his and fellow activist’s
point of view. He makes the effort to speak to and connect
to them as human beings.
Matusak, Larraine R. "Chapter 2 Finding Your
Voice." Finding Your
Voice: Learning to Lead—
Anywhere
You Want to Make a Difference. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. 13-23. Print.
Describes how to find one’s personal voice and expression in their writing.
Menand, Louis. "Live and Learn." The New Yorker. The New York
Times, 6 June 2011. Web. 20 Feb.
2014.
goo.gl/QMzVRF Menand raises the often asked question of why people go to
college. He
presents
three theories and the pros and cons of each of them. He believes that college
is about
what students learn, the
experiences they have and how they grow as people, but he ultimately
leaves the reader to decide for
themselves.
Moore,
Kathleen Dean. Interview. “If Your House Is On Fire.” The Sun Dec. 2002.
Moore discusses why
people need to be more concerned
with the state of the planet and how we can go about
improving things.
Moyers & Company: Chasing Ice. Dir. Jeff Orlowski. Perf. James Balog. Bill Moyers, 2012.
DVD. Scientist and
global warming ice researcher Jeff Orlowski, along with his team of
researchers, spent
years working on documenting the retreat of many icebergs around the
world. They went out to prove that global warming
was a real problem, and they were
able to prove this
through their thousands of photos and video footage showing the retreat
and calving of many
icebergs.
"NPR Books." The
Politics Of Passing 1964's Civil Rights Act. NPR (National Public Radio).
N.d. Radio. Transcript.Terry
Gross and Todd Purdum talk about the 50th anniversary of
the Civil
Rights movement, and how the work of activists led by MLKJ pushed the
movement, and how the Kennedys reacted their
actions.
Orr,
David. “What is Education For?” In Context 27(1991): 52 Orr argues that the way we are going
about education is not sustainable
in the long run. While the current education system is good at
giving students facts and figures,
it does not cover context and the responsibility of knowledge.
He proposes six principles that go towards
rethinking education that could improve the lives of
ourselves
and this planet.
“Tactical Performance: Thinking Theatrically for Powerful Protest: Larry
Bogad at
TEDxUCDavis”. YouTube. TEDxTalks, 30 June
2013. Web. 01 Apr. 2014.
Larry Bogad talks about
how the theatrics and proper performance are what makes up
successful nonviolent
activist procedures.
"The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights." The Leadership Conference on Civil
and Human Rights. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2014. This website
focuses on civil rights
history, as well as
current issues today such as civil rights enforcement, equal opportunity
issues, LGBT rights,
racial profiling, and voting, women’s, and worker’s rights.
Tough, Paul. "What If the Secret to Success Is Failure?" The New York Times. The New
York
Times, 14 Sept. 2011.
Web. 20 Feb. 2014. goo.gl/QMzVRF Tough
speaks with the heads
of
multiple schools about the place of character in education and whether we
should be teaching
good
character in schools. The article also discusses the obsession with success in
our society and
whether
or not we are forgetting how important it is to allow our students a chance to
fail.
Wallis, Brian. Art
After Modernism: Rethinking Representation. New York: New Museum of
Contemporary
Art, n.d. Print. This book reviews changes
in the arts from the end of the
modernist
movement to the ideas and practices of the new era known as postmodernism,
and
how social media/networks influenced and changed art.
