https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj en-us 2021-03-19 11:48:45 UTC 2025-04-24 06:49:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f30d.png mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329368687 Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French social anthropologist and is usually considered to be the founder of the intellectual movement known as structuralism [2]. He viewed cultures as systems of communication, and he constructed models based on structural linguistics, information theory, and cybernetics to interpret them.

TO find out more about the life and work of Levi-Strauss, follow this link:]]> 2021-03-19 11:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329368687 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329371367 Structuralism is the  name applied to the analysis of cultural systems. Watch this short video about structuralism to get a better sense of what it is and how it has been applied to cultural studies.

Follow this link]]> 2021-03-19 11:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329371367 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329374692 He is best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both, he analysed the improved living standards and social conditions of individuals as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America was published after Tocqueville's travels in the United States and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science. He noted that the theories which Joseph Arthur de Gobineau was talking about were dangerous for ‘human freedom’, as events like the Holocaust sadly show.

Watch this short video about Tocqueville’s work and make notes about the key factos:]]> 2021-03-19 11:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329374692 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329378539 Joseph Arthur de Gobineau was a French aristocrat who is best known for helping to legitimise racism by the use of scientific racist theory and "racial demography", and for developing the theory of the Aryan master race. Inspiring a social movement in Germany named Gobinism, his works were also influential on prominent antisemites like Richard Wagner, and leaders of the Nazi Party. His Essai sur l’inégalité des races humaines, 4 vol. (1853–55; Essay on the Inequality of Human Races), that was by far his most influential work.]]> 2021-03-19 11:58:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329378539 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329595518 One of the most atrocious examples of racial hatred in the history of mankind is the Holocaust. When the Nazis came to power, Anti-Semitism was so strong that it spread around the world. Listen to these accounts of experiences of the Holocaust. Make notes about what you hear and discuss the stories with a partner.

https://youtu.be/uZc_UrTpw1s

https://youtu.be/6ATBHMDX_ls
https://youtu.be/6OT8waWCU0k

]]> 2021-03-19 13:05:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329595518 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329597924 Colonialism can be defined as ‘the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.’ Conquering nations cast their role as civilizing “barbaric” or “savage” nations, and argued that they were acting in the best interests of those whose lands and peoples they exploited. A key figure in this period of colonisation is Cecil Rhodes.

What is colonialism?]]> 2021-03-19 13:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329597924 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329603263 Rhodes believed that the Anglo-Saxon race was, to quote a letter of 1877, 'the first race in the world'. Under the reasoning that 'the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race', he advocated vigorous settler colonialism and ultimately a reformation of the British Empire so that each component would be self-governing and represented in a single parliament in London. In recent times, the protest movement ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ has called for his statues to be taken down with references made to apartheid in South Africa.

Cecil Rhodes ]]> 2021-03-19 13:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329603263 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329618097 Apartheid (“apartness” in the language of Afrikaans) was a system of legislation that upheld segregationist policies against non-white citizens of South Africa. Nelson Mandela was a leading figure in the ending of apartheid, and to express the injustices of the times artists such as David Koloane produced powerful works of art. In 1996 the Truth and Reconciliation Commision (TRC) was established to ‘help deal with what happened under apartheid’. 

Watch this video to learn more about apartheid: 

]]> 2021-03-19 13:10:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329618097 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329623128 Mr Mandela was South Africa’s first democratically elected President. On 9 May 1994, soon after the landmark election results were in, he was unanimously elected President by South Africa’s new Members of Parliament. His legacy is continued by the Nelson Mandela Foundation which states ‘Our vision is a just society, one which learns from its pasts and listens to all its voices.’ His life involved such struggle and triumph that it is unsurprising it has been adapted into a film. 

Watch the trailer here: 

]]> 2021-03-19 13:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329623128 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329630070 David Nthubu Koloane (5 June 1938 – 30 June 2019) was a South African artist. In his drawings, paintings and collages he explored questions about political injustice and human rights. Koloane is considered to have been "an influential artist and writer of the apartheid years" in South Africa. 

The Night has a Thousand Eyes, by David Koloane ]]> 2021-03-19 13:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329630070 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329636383 The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African the markets with manufactured goods, which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans, who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves; the enslaved Africans were then sold or traded for raw materials, which would be transported back to Europe to complete the voyage. One key event in this period which was critical in bringing about the abolition of slavery was ‘the Zong’ which it is believed also inspired artist Turner to paint ‘The Slave Ship’.

Watch this short clip about the Middle Passage to find out more:

]]> 2021-03-19 13:14:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329636383 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329641928 In 1781, the captain of a slave ship inbound to Jamaica, the Zong, had ordered 132 slaves to be thrown overboard when drinking water was running low so that insurance payments could be collected; slaves who died of natural causes were not covered by insurance. This incident went to court, and the trial that ensued gained wide public attention, building support for the abolition of slavery. Although the trial was deemed to be inconclusive, it was a pivotal catalyst in the movement towards British abolition and a moment that later inspired Turner to portray the incident in The Slave Ship.]]> 2021-03-19 13:15:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329641928 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329645221 Turner depicts a ship visible in the background, sailing through a tumultuous sea of churning water and leaving scattered human forms floating in its wake.  The initial exhibition of the painting in 1840 coincided with international abolitionist campaigns and is thought to have been inspired by case of the Zong.

The Slave Ship, by Turner]]> 2021-03-19 13:16:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329645221 mappe_bacheche https://padlet.com/mappe_bacheche/g9slwr50g5x2aiqj/wish/1329657434 Along with artwork such as that of David Koloane, music has also been used as a powerful medium to capture people’s experiences of and feelings of racism and inequality. 

Listen to this song by Lauryn Hill and make notes about what she is singing. Discuss what her lyrics are communicating with a partner: 

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