Social Class and Unethical Behavior (HUM225)

Apropos of Frank Cowperwood, consider the following. UC Berkeley scientists just published a study of un/ethical behavior and its relation to class position. Here is the abstract: Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to [...]

Slides (HUM225)

Literary Naturalism: Relationship to Philosophical and Scientific Naturalism: Nature is explicable in materialistic terms in distinction to metaphysical or supernatural terms Advances in the biological and physical sciences affirm the value of materialism, a paradigm which influences literature Emphasis on scientific method Suspicious of metaphysical explanations

Lecture 2/23 (HUM225)

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Loni Ding on Documemoir (HUM470)

“The central storyteller, a fictional Asian time traveler/narrator, guides a subjective journey inside the larger history. Taking expressive liberties, he offers a first-person sense of time, place and voice of the immigrants who filled in the land we stand on, pioneered the field crops that are California’s agricultural glory, and built the 100-year-old temple we [...]

Lectures (HUM225)

Thursday’s lecture on Thousand Pieces of Gold: 216lec Tuesday’s lecture on The Financier: 221lec

Turnitin (HUM225/455/470)

Submitting your paper to turnitin.com has been extended until 5:59 pm today. After that, you will have to send me an email copy of your paper and points will be taken off. 1. Sign up for an account at turnitin.com 2. Log in using the information on the relevant course information page. 3. Upload your [...]

Chinese in the Frontier West and Documemoir (HUM470)

Here’s a link to the webpage for Chinese in the Frontier West: http://www.cetel.org/index.html Also of note are two brief articles by Loni Ding on the “documemoir” method of film making: http://www.cetel.org/docu.html

Subirusdoistiozin (HUM455)

A track from Brazilian musician Criolo Doido’s album Nó na Orelha (Knot in the Ear).     

TPG (HUM225)

I’m having difficulty uploading the audio file from Thursday’s lecture, so hopefully you took scrupulous notes on our discussion of Thousand Pieces of Gold. The main focus of Thursday’s class, you’ll recall, was the issue of economy. McCunn represents various forms of economic activity and organization throughout TPG, from the economic deprivation of agrarian northern [...]

The Minstrelsy Tangent (HUM455)

Here’s an image of TD “Big Daddy” Rice as Jim Crow: University of Virginia has a modest page on “blackface minstrelsy” (AKA “racial masquerade”): http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/minstrel/mihp.html