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Autobiography and the importance of telling stories.

Shakespeare from MACBETH.

Freud and psychoanalysis.

Youth: a world full of threats and dangers.

FIRST MEMORY
Poverty
The story of being accused of hitting a child with a stone: memory and dream-nightmare.
The dream under the bridge.
Poets and seers
Going to town with his mother
Old folks: Melengo; Alberto. What happens to Alberto?
Vampire

BLOG discussion  (Story from Vietnam)

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24818399/ns/dateline_nbc-international/t/coming-home/
Dateline NBC on May 25, 2008.

The Black Hand

 THE SKYSCRAPERS OF NEW YORK

LUMIERE FACTORY

LUMIERE TRAIN

LUMIERE COMEDY

THE BIRTH OF A NATION

LECTURE 
Part 1

The Great Migrations 1

African Americans and how they share in the nation's history of migrations

ONE WAY TICKET
CLICK   MOMA INTERACTIVE EXHIBIT

THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS
CLICK  audio

We will return to the importance of the African American experience in the re-definition of the "discourse" of equality and integration when we will read THE GODFATHER.  The Civil Rights Movement is at the core of the progressive interpretation -- and partially the success -- of Puzo's book.

QUESTIONS: THE GREAT MIGRATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM THE SOUTH

• When did the Great Migration of African American from the South take place?
• What were the main reasons of the Great Migration?
• Why can we compare it to other mass migrations from foreign countries?

  LECTURE
 Part 2

 THE GREAT MIGRATIONS

  Irish, Jewish, Italians 

Irish Jews Italian questions

• What is the main reason of the mass immigration of Irish people.

• With reference to the Jewish immigration to America, what were the pogroms, where and when did they take place?

• What was the advantage that Irish and Jews respectively had when they immigrated?

• What was the professional background of the majority of Italian migrants?

 LECTURE
 Part 3

LOMBROSO

Where RACIST "scientific" theories come from

ARE YOU LEFT-HANDED?
You MAY be a criminal.
 

LOMBROSO the "father of criminology"

• What are the BASIC ideas of Lombroso's theories?
• How can we connect THE APE CARTOON to  LOMBROSO'S theories?
• Are today's studies into DNA and the brain going to bring us back to the same point?
  Are you sufficiently informed about genetic theories to take a position and sustain an argument?

WHAT IS PHRENOLOGY?

   LECTURE  
   Part 4  

Let Leonardo DiCaprio tell you in DJANGO (clip from one of the most morally revolting films ever made)

This is what in those days passed as "SCIENCE"

Phrenology questions

• What is the concept of SUBMISSIVNESS?

• Apparently the "dimples" are in everybody's skull. However, according to this demented theory,
  they appear in different areas in different "races."  What does their location (allegedly) indicate?

• In white people, the location of the dimples happens in what area?

 LECTURE
 Part 5

NATIVISM

Start with the document that interests you the most, then read the others.

   ... AND TO CONCLUDE   (dulcis in fundo)

LECTURE
PART 6

New Orleans 1891

QUESTIONS ON NEW ORLEANS 1891

• What kind of connection exists between the FIRST ANTI-ITALIAN CARTOON you saw (published in the New Orleans'
  periodical The Mascot) and these events?

• What kind of atmosphere did Italian live in, in New Orleans?

• The cartoon and events are not DIRECTLY connected, of course. But is one predictive of the other?

Introduction, discussion.