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NOTE: Asterisked (starred) items may be covered by Tests ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weeks 1 and 2 images/symbols *Nazi Symbols - The Story Behind the Imagery *Racism, hatred and terror - The global network of rightwing extremists (begins with Buffalo 5/14) Grey Zone/Memory Camps-Extracts Copyright Page --> PART A --> Class Films List *The Israel-Palestine conflict: a brief, simple history Why Does the U.S. Support and Fund Israel So Much? | WSJ Illegal Israeli Settler Roads Are Surging Across West Bank Since Oct. 7 | WSJ Armed settlers and segregation: Inside the West Bank What Really Happened on October 7 (2023) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weeks 3 & 4 New York Times As explained in class (9/4) concerning class participation, everyone must access the New York Times by setting up a free account with them. Instructions for doing this are available here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weeks 5 & 6 Immigration/ Creativity Web page navigation (the hamburger or pancake menu button) *The history of the world wide web: --> Copyright Page --> PART A --> Readings Packet 2 --> Reading T1 Immigration / The social construction of race *The British Genocide of the Irish *Wind that Shakes the Barley (AV9-Misc) Why Ireland is Divided Northern Ireland: The IRA Resurgence *Reading on Irish Immigrants: --> Copyright Page --> PART A --> Readings Packet 2 --> Reading RW-15 *Reading on the passenger ship the St. Louis: --> Copyright Page --> PART A --> Readings Packet 2 --> Reading HW-2 The Nazi Holocaust was worse than what people think: --> Copyright Page --> PART A --> Readings Packet 2 --> Reading HW-2(a) Netanyahu: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) Americans PAID By Israel To FLOOD Social Media ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weeks 7 & 8 Gender and Patriarchy *Facts and figures: Women, peace, and security (UN report on patriarchy and violence against women). *Sanae Takaichi makes history as Japan's first female prime minister U.S. Victims of Violent Crime by Gender | Trend Chart (2025) *Definition of patriarchy--see slide images *The Epstein Files Explained Fast The Horrifying True Story of Jeffrey Epstein Ending Sexual Assault and Harassment in the Workplace UB policy on discrimination and harassment ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Weeks 9 & 10 Democracy and Policing + Race, Gender and Patriarchy (Intersectionality) *What is the Police For? *Centuries of Struggle *Blinding of Isaac Woodard *Good Samaritans Save Kentucky Trooper Shot During a Traffic Stop * Concept: Intersectionality (see slide images) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Photos Begin To Capture The Widespread Destruction Caused By Hurricane Melissa ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lynching The History of Lynchings In America Inside the memorial to victims of lynching The history of Tulsa's 'Black Wall Street' massacre The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you Why the US has birthright citizenship Brief reading on the Tienanmen Square Protests --> Teaching Materials --> scroll down to Item No. 10. Nazi Town, USA PBS Inside 'Return to the Land': The group making a whites-only community in Arkansas --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Black Native Americans and their struggle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Eugenics Crusade -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Democracy and Capitalism What is Democracy? The procedural versus the authentic. Who Owns America? Bernie Sanders Says the Quiet Part Out Loud We Investigated Hundreds of Trump Donors: What We Found Will Shock You Fox News Didn’t Expect Mamdani To HUMILIATE Them Like This (corporate socialism versus worker socialism) U.S. Bill of Rights Definitions: See slide images Chart: The political economy of race, law and demagogy in a capitalist democracy. We Asked Trump Voters About Grocery Prices How Corporations Are Secretly Poisoning Our Food Supply We Went to Miami: The Inequality Will Shock You Why the Rich Don’t Pay Taxes The Business of Keeping People Poor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Great Gatsby Halloween Bash Great Gatsby Party as SNAP Benefits Expire 15-year-old guns down classmate because he was upset the boy bumped him at school and refused to apologize, cops say 'Let's handle this': Mother shot dead in front of daughter after confronting Five Below shopper over not saying 'thank you' for opening door, cops say Trump mocks ‘No Kings’ rallies in vulgar social media post Immigration Lawyer Answers Immigration Questions Why the US is deporting so many people Law Professor Answers Supreme Court Questions Harvard Professor Answers Middle East Questions Man Collapses During Oval Office Address As Press Is Rushed Out of Room The REAL Story of Donald Trump Professor Jeffrey Sachs on Donald Trump’s 60 Minutes Interview The Problem With Elon Musk Who’s Really Pulling the Strings in Global Wars Jennings MELTS DOWN Michael Wolff Breaks his Silence... Rep. Yassamin Ansari Scolds Virgina Foxx on Her ‘Eight Weeks of Taxpayer-Funded Vacation’ --->Senate Republicans include a sneaky payout in spending bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good Samaritans Save Kentucky Trooper Shot During a Traffic Stop Has Mark Carney cracked the Trump playbook? | About That I spent a week with Black Republicans --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Rule of Law The Biggest Enabler (It's Not Who You Think) The Supreme Court’s “Shadow Docket,” Explained The Shadow Docket and How the Supreme Court Uses It How do executive orders work? Trump's Executive Orders: How Much Legal Authority Do They Have? Where's My Roy Cohn? Grifters Helping Grifters --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social Media --Why everyone is quitting social media The Death of Critical Thinking: How Stupidity Took Over --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Artificial Intelligence Today in Space History 04-07 - 2001 Mars Odyssey 24/7 Live from the International Space Station | Dream Trips Uncovering the Secrets of the International Space Station (Full Episode) | Superstructures The Making of Planet Earth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Food and Capitalism A Chocolate Expert Shows Us How To Eat Chocolate Properly How Big Companies RUINED chocolate! The history of chocolate (TED-ed) The Whole Process Of Making Chocolate | How Do They Do It? How It's Made: Chocolate The Columbian Exchange: Crash Course World History #23 Columbus, Vasco da Gama, and Zheng He - 15th Century Mariners: Crash Course World History #21 Ivory Coast’s cocoa production faces climate crisis, disease, and US tariffs Why The U.S. Isn’t Growing Enough Food |