MSNBC interrupts Congresswoman for report on Justin Bieber

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Overview of Social Movements

Here's a great (short) video tutorial about social movements:

http://www.sophia.org/tutorials/social-movements--2

There is also a short quiz you can take to check your understanding. This is not required/I have no way of checking your score. This would be solely for your own understanding. :)

More on Race as a Social Construct

Hi all.

If any of you are interested in further exploring the concept of race as a social construct (which we discussed last Wednesday in class) you may be interested in the following resources. There is a great deal written on this subject if you want to do further research; these are just a few of many resources out there:

• BOOK (which we have in the library):

  Graves, Joseph L. The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America. New York: Penguin, 2005.

• ARTICLES:

  Jablonski, Nina G. "What Is It About Skin Color?" The Root. www.theroot.com, 6 Feb. 2013.

  American Anthropological Association. "RACE - Only Skin Deep." RACE - Only Skin Deep. American Anthropological Association, 2011.

Welcome to the INFS 2520 Blog!

Welcome to our course blog! This is a blog that you can view at anytime by going to the Alternative Knowledge blog at <http://altknow.blogspot.com/>.

I will be adding information to this blog regularly, so please take time to check it at least weekly. You will also notice links to videos and web sites to the right. Some of these videos we will be viewing in class (see the syllabus for details). I have put links to the online versions here so that you can refer to them if you are writing a video reaction paper. Some of the videos are here for your own personal viewing if you are interested. If you want to view these after the class is over you should bookmark the links. You have received an invitation to join the blog. If you sign up you will be able to contribute postings to the blog which will appear here. This will allow you to share topics related to the course with me and your classmates. (Note: the topics that you share must be related to the course.)

I look forward to sharing this space with all of you for the rest of this semester!