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Committees of Correspondence
[https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/committees-of-correspondence]
The Committees of Correspondence revolutionized the town meeting from discussions of local matters to global politics. The town meeting became the action-level for patriot cause. Meetings were a means for citizens to voice their opinions about grievances they had with Britain. The primary function of the Committees of Correspondence was the championing and implementation of the Patriot cause through diplomatic means. -
Federalist Papers
https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/The+Federalist+Papers#TheFederalistPapers-8] The Federalist Papers, are 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison. Written to urge the ratification of the United States Constitution, drafted in 1787. Because Hamilton and Madison were each members of the Constitutional Convention, the Federalist Papers are often used today to help interpret the intentions of those drafting the Constitution. -
Mary Wollstonecraft
[https://fee.org/articles/mary-wollstonecraft-equal-rights-for-women/]
[http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/wollstonecraft1792.pdf]
Mary Wollstonecraft who caused a sensation by writing "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". She declared both women and men were human beings endowed with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."The only reason women don't seem as smart as men, she says, is because they aren't given the same education.” -
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-things-know-about-declaration-sentiments-180959352/] [http://time.com/4361099/hillary-clinton-nominee-speech-transcript/] Hilary Clinton mentioned the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments: “A small but determined group of women, and men, came together with the idea that women deserved equal rights". Women drafted the Declaration but wern't the only ones to sign it. The final copy was signed by 68 women and 32 men. -
SojurerTruth: Ain't I a Women
[http://sojournertruthmemorial.org/sojourner-truth/her-words/]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=EsjdLL3MrKk] The “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech at the Women’s Rights Convention became a classic expression of women’s rights. Truth became a symbol of strong women. “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! -
Max Weber:The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
[https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/w/e.htm#weber-max]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpGupes7NvI] Max Weber a German sociologist and political economist best known for his thesis of the “Protestant Ethic” developed the concept of ‘ideal types’ as a tool for isolating sociological phenomena for the purpose of analysis. He attributed the success of German capitalism to the psychological consequences of Calvinism. -
Simone de Beauvoir
[https://www.philosophytalk.org/blog/simone-de-beauvoir]
Beauvoir’s work, The Second Sex, was groundwork for second wave feminism. First-wave feminism was about women’s suffrage and property rights, the second waves concern includes sexuality, family, workplace, reproductive rights. If woman are taught her entire life that she must look, act a certain way, play a subservient role within her family, and work only certain kinds of jobs, it is going to affect her sense of freedom and authenticity. -
Milton Friedman
[http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Friedman.html] In Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman wrote the most important economics book of the 1960s, making a case for relatively free markets to a general audience. He argued for, a volunteer army, freely floating exchange rates, abolition of licensing of doctors, a negative income tax, and EDUCATION vouchers. -
Port Huron Statement
https://www.thenation.com/article/participatory-democracy-port-huron-statement-occupy-wall-street/ 60-some young American activists who launched the Students for a Democratic Society 50 years ago in a 25,000-word document became known as the Port Huron Statement, after the retreat center belonging to the United Auto Workers on the shores of Lake Huron. They stated;“We have no sure formulas, no closed theories.” We would accept no hand-me-down ideologies. -
Derrick Bell
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-SffJkUt_U]
Law Professor Derrick Bell laid the foundation for critical race theory. Critically Race Theory is an academic discipline which maintains that society is divided along racial lines into white oppressors and black victims. "Racism is seen as an inherent part of American civilization, privileging white individuals over people of color in most areas of life including education”. -
Eve Sedgwick
[https://affectsphere.wordpress.com/2016/05/13/review-touching-feeling-affect-pedagogy-performativity/] In "Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity",Sedgwick examines works among others to illustrate her claims about the relationship between touching and feeling. These essays navigate the waters of performativity, affect, and pedagogy in an attempt to locate a middle space Sedgwick sees as a way for thinking beyond binaries. -
Kimberle' Williams Crenshaw
[https://www.ted.com/talks/kimberle_crenshaw_the_urgency_of_intersectionality/transcript] Ted talk: Crenshaw states that there are two issues involved here. There's police violence against African-Americans, and there's violence against women. She is known for the introduction and development of intersectional theory, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities, minority identities, relate to systems and structures of oppression, domination, or discrimination. -
Judith Butler
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7o2LYATDc]
[https://www.thecut.com/2016/06/judith-butler-c-v-r.html] Nobody is born one gender or the other. We act and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman. Gender is culturally formed,it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that is important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.
