Resources
Bibliography for Teachers
DeAngelis, Tori. “The Legacy of Trauma.” Monitor on Psychology, February 2019. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/02/legacy-trauma. This resource helps students to understand that while trauma is personal and painful, it is also culturally informed. The cultural understanding of trauma as well as our current understandings for it are limited, but it is important for students to understand how dynamics around trauma dialogue.
Dittman, Melissa. “What Makes Good People Do Bad Things?” Monitor on Psychology, October 2004. https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct04/goodbad. Amazing resource to help students understand the moral complexities of human beings. While this resource is used for Othello to help us understand his choices, this is a resource that can be used to help foreground students' knowledge with any tragedy.
Freire, Paulo, Myra Bergman Ramos, Donaldo P. Macedo, and Ira Shor. Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York, NY, USA: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. This book is necessary in understanding critical pedagogy and progressive education. This book is theoretically dense, but it is also balanced with deep contemplative reflections by Friere based on his prior experience working with the poor. This book is a good start for understanding the psychoaffective habits and contradictions of oppressed people, however it is not to be taken as a totalizing philosophy.
Indigenous in Plain Sight. YouTube. YouTube, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3FL9uhTH_s. This TED Talk is amazing for opening the conversation with regards to visibility and hypervisibility for Indigenous people. There are many touchpoints in the video that the speaker provides that marginalized students can relate to such as family, American culture, and their relationship with school
Orson Welles’ Othello. DVD. United States: United Artists, 1952. This is a highly regarded version of Othello and I think it is critical that students learn how to engage with the movie. While controversial due to its' use of blackface, students will be encouraged to reflect on the legacy of racial representation in arts and media.
Steinem, Gloria. “Steinem, ‘Testimony...,’ Speech Text.” Voices of Democracy, July 5, 2016. https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/steinem-testimony-speech-text/. This resource is to help students understand the struggle for Women's rights in American history. This is an excellent resource for Othello as students may not have a fundamental understanding (or value) of women's rights as minority rights in America. Of course, it is encouraged that students develop an intersectional understanding of race and gender as it pertains to feminism.
Understanding Race and Religion through Othello. YouTube. YouTube, 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1hPm2iWrks. This resource is a great preliminary resource when students are grappling with the beginning of Othello. Students may not immediately understand the importance of religion in the text and how Othello's nationality as a North African is important to creating the milieu of suspicion around him in the play. Students will be challenged to reflect on the role that religion, bias, and difference plays a role in our society today.
We Hold the Rock. YouTube. YouTube, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmae2PsWJI. This video is great for adding perspective to Native's political struggle for self-determination in a colonial nation. While it is packed full of information and will need scaffolding, it displays how Natives' fought to turn an infamous prison, Alcatraz, into a learning and community center and how Californian politicians pushed back.
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