25 de novembro de 2009 -- Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality (Critical Perspectives on Empire) (0) In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined their studies of race-relations to a national framework, this book offers a pioneering study of the transnational circulation of people and ideas, racial knowledge and technologies that under-pinned the construction of self-styled white men\'s coun...
23 de novembro de 2009 -- Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil (0) An analysis of the intransigence of Brazilian racism in which the author asks why there is still faith in Brazil\'s \"racial democracy\" in the face of pervasive racism in all aspects of Brazilian life. The author also illuminates the problems activists face when trying to set up antiracist movements....
21 de agosto de 2010 -- Pensadores (121 – Psychology Series) -- On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of War (0) Nota: Este vídeo termina a série em psicologia. Mesa redonda com David Blight, R. Brian Ferguson, John Horgan, e Dori Laub. A pergunta central é: Algum dia os humanos deixarão de guerrear de uma vez por todas? Infelizmente a incorporação não está ativada, então peço que assistam no youtube seguindo o link indicado.
15 de agosto de 2010 -- Pensadores (120 – Psychology Series) -- Temperament and Ideology (0) We often believe people behave a certain way because of socio-economic status or race. But how much of how we see the world is about our temperament? GUESTS George Lakoff is a professor of cognitive linguistics, especially the neural theory of language, at the University of California, Berkeley. His focus is on the application of cognitive and neural linguistics to politics, literature, philosophy and mathematics. John T. Jost is professor of Psychology at New York University. H...
31 de julho de 2010 -- Pensadores (114) -- China: Is Political Reform Possible? (0) Speaker: Joseph Fewsmith, director of the East Asian Studies Program, professor of International Relations and Political Science at Boston University; and research associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University