HHUM 105 Vocab

For the midterm exam

Humanities

disciplines that investigate the expressions of the human mind, body, and heart

the arts

self-expression that implies the existence of self

identity and thoughts manifesting in physical form

positionality

needed to thrive

expression of human mind, heart, and body

positionality

perspective, intersectionality (you don’t wake up thinking about your womanhood but walking into a room full of men brings it to the front of your mind)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

1948

post WW2

500 languages

positive rights

require active state provision

negative rights

no interference necessary

free speech is an example as it requires no intervention to make it happen

overlapping consensus

doing or wanting the same thing for different reasons

open reading

open constitution or moral reading considers more than one literal interpretation, adapting to modern times

closed reading

like how we take the second amendment literally

taking a document literally without adjusting for modern times

subject to the jurisdiction thereof

14th amendment

people who aren’t us citizens who give birth here can’t have kids be us citizens by birth

closed reading

American dream

langston hughes Harlem (a dream deffered)
meritocracy, bootstrap theory, capitalism, socioeconomic fluidity

aesthetic vs ethics of poetry for human rights

affect (vibe or feeling) vs community baesd, not the same as morals

spoken poetry

challenges interpretation

changes emotions triggered, feel author’s intention

figures: seamus heany, lin manuel miranda, clint smith, amanda gorman, arthur sze (pick 2 and memorize them)

critiques: market saturation and racial bias

Berkeley in the 60s doc

activism era 60s-70s in berkeley

documentary was oscar nominated

advocated for free speech on campus, civil rights, women’s rights, and vietnam anti-war

social protests

coordinated efforts, not spontaneous

conflict of working inside or outside the system

examples: teach-ins, strikes, marches

cultural studies

studying a culture from within it

stuart hall

cultural anthropology

studied from outsider inserting themselves into a culture, they are not part of it

ethnography

studying culture from within

popular culture

music, tv, fashion, games/sports, visual art, dance, theatre, rituals (like graduations; can be religious or social, makes things happen), movies, oral culture (passed down stories)

Stuart Hall

brought cultural studies to mainstream

theories of reception: how we read signs

what happened that wasn’t in the official record?

systems of power: the various political, economic, social forces behind those systems”

protest song

targets specific injustices or categories (like racism)

anthem

unifies large body of people with shared pride

music & activism

shared theme of protesting singular event or general human rights

performance element unifies people at rallies

collaboration (major superstars working to advocate for a cause)

festival events (headliners, Live Aid)

festivals emerged in the 80s with the rise of MTV and visual music

unifiers

food, music, language, common enemies, first times

Live Aid

concert event in 1985 that raised awareness and funds about starvation in Africa

major headliners in Philadelphia and London, stars like Freddie Mercury and others came together

criticized for being overly showy and publicized

music activism examples

Live Aid, USA for Africa, Farm Aid

festivals

USA For Africa

night of grammys, 40 cool and trending artists came together to record a song to raise money for starving Africa; stars like Paul Simon, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Cindy Lauper, etc.

Paulo Freire

brazilian educator and philosopher

born 1921

founded critical pedagogy

wrote Pedagogy of the Oppressed

UNESCO peace prize

Language; education

language is power, education is liberatory

Angicos experiment

small town in northern Brazil where everyone was a farmer and the large majority was illiterate

with 40 hours of teaching, Freire was able to establish literacy with these groups

important because at the time, you had to be able to read to vote

this project was done to help expand the vote

banking education

a model where teachers deposit knowledge to students who are expected to memorize and repeat it back

freire believed it was oppressive education as it did not look at other cultures or ways of teaching and believed it suppressed critical thinking

critical pedagogy

established by freire in response to the banking method

wanted to make students realize their work and actions can affect their reality

problem posing education

alternative to banking

emphasizes the culture of the learner and opens dialogue

co-construction of knowledge between educators and learners instead of a hierarchy and subordination structure

respect for culture leads to a dialogue on what matters to learners (which helps them establish reading and writing skills) leading to the development of a critical consciousness (realizing their power to affect change)

pushback

people opposed these new systems because they did not want those they deemed below them to realize their power

education became politicized during the cold war as struggles began over power, resources, identity, and social reproduction

Friere was exiled after a US-led coup, but he was able to spread his ideas across the world, especially with his book