Understanding History and Society through Images, 1776-1914

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.01.11

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Enduring Understandings
  6. Resources
  7. Appendix
  8. Notes

Civil Disobedience in Words and Images

Jennifer Leigh Vermillion

Published September 2014

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Resources

Bibliography

Barringer, Timothy J. "Art History." Class lecture, Understanding History and Society

Through Images, 1776-1914 from Yale University, New Haven, July 7, 2014.

Brown, Judith M.. Gandhi and civil disobedience: the Mahatma in Indian politics, 1928-34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Brown, Rebecca M.. Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India. London: Routledge, 2010. Well-researched and thorough exploration of Gandhi's philosophy and politics.

Bustle, Lynn S. Image, inquiry, and transformative practice: engaging learners in

creative and critical inquiry through visual representation. New York: P. Lang,

2003. Fantastic resource for teachers who want to incorporate art into the classroom.

Cherkis, Jason. "UC Davis Police Pepper-Spray Seated Students In Occupy Dispute." The

Huffington Post, November 19, 2011.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/19/uc-davis-police-pepper-spray-students_n_1102728.html (accessed July 12, 2014).

Critical Art Ensemble. Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media. New York: Autonomedia, 2001.

Critical Art Ensemble. "Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas." Brooklyn, New York: Autonomedia, 1996.

Danoff, Michael. Compassion and Protest: Recent Social and Political Art from Eli Broad Family Foundation Collection. New York: Cross River Press, 1991.

Douglas, Gordon. "Guerilla Bike Lanes and Other Acts of Civic Improvement through

Civil Disobedience." Architect Magazine, Aug., 2012. Interesting exploration of some very modern expressions of civil disobedience.

Friedersdorf, Conor. "Reports Reveal Two New Scandals in the Pepper-Spraying at UC

Davis." Atlantic Monthly Group, April 19, 2012. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/reports-reveal-two-new-scandals-in-the-pepper-spraying-at-uc-davis/256058/ (accessed July 12, 2014).

Gans, Chaim. Philosophical Anarchism and Political Disobedience. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Goldwin, Robert A. Ed. On Civil Disobedience: Essays Old and New. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1968. Invaluable collection of essays on the progression of American thought about civil disobedience.

Graff, Gerald and Cathy Birkenstein. "They Say/ I Say": The Moves that Matter in

Academic Writing. W. W. Norton and Co., 2010. Helpful resource for teachers to learn how to give sentence frames and help students articulate their thoughts.

Herngren, Per. Path of Resistance: the practice of civil disobedience. English language ed. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1993.

Holmes, Brian and Gregory Sholette. "Civil Disobedience as Art: Art as Civil

Disobedience."

Jasper, James M.. The art of moral protest culture, biography, and creativity in social

movements. Pbk. ed. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Karapetian, Farrah. "Art as Civil Disobedience." Seismopolite (30 Sept, 2012).

Orcutt, Kimberly, ed. John Rogers: American Stories. New-York Historical Society, 2010.

Perry, Lewis. Civil disobedience: an American tradition. New Haven: Yale University

Press, 2013. By far the most accessible, articulate, and engaging primer on civil disobedience.

Protest & Survive. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2000.

Ruskin, John. "Unto This Last." Essays from the Cornhill Magazine 1860. Reprinted

as "Unto This Last" in 1862.

Sophocles. Antigone. Translated by R.C. Jebb. 442BCE. http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html

Storing, Herbert J. "The Case Against Civil Disobedience." On Civil Disobedience. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1968. 95-120. Print.

Strickland, Carol, Ph.D. The Annotated Mona Lisa. Missouri: John Boswell

Management Inc., 2007.

"Teaching History.org, home of the National History Education Clearinghouse."

Paintings About Segregation. http://teachinghistory.org/tah-grants/project-spotlight/25759 (accessed July 11, 2014).

Willis, Deborah. Black photographers bear witness: 100 years of social protest.

Williamstown, Mass.: Williams College Museum of Art, 1989. Amazing resource with rarely seen photographs that are fantastic and brief biographies of the photographers.

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