Designing Effective PPT Presentations
- Designing an Effective PowerPoint Presentation: Quick GuideThis presentation is designed to quickly introduce you into the world of PowerPoint creation. It covers concepts of visual rhetoric, design, and good presentation skills.
Videos - Selected:
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America in a Different Mirror: A Comparative Approach to History (49:00) by R. Takaki
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Anatomy of Prejudice: Jane Elliott's Seminar on Race (48:34)
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Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (41:00)
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Edward Said On Orientalism (40:00)
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Edward Said: The Myth of the 'Clash of Civilizations' (53:00)
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Great Thinkers: Culture Wars (59:26)
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How Racism Harms White Americans (45:00)
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Inner Borderlines: Visions of America Through the Eyes of Alejandro Morales (01:13:09)
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Living in the Hyphen: Cultural Identity in a Multiethnic Society (44:33)
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Mestizo (SEGMENT) (01:41)
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Prejudice and Discrimination: Cutting Edge Communication Comedy Series (10:00)
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Race Is/Race Ain't (55:49) This film is no longer available from Films on Demand.
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Tim Wise: On White Privilege (58:00)
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TEDTalks: Stefan Wolff—The Path to Ending Ethnic Conflicts (17:30)
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Welcome to Shelbyville (62:00)
Videos - Race & Ethnicity:
- The Story of Race: A History
How did the idea of race begin in America? The Story of Race video provides an overview of how prevailing ideas in science, government and culture. Uploaded on Jul 13, 2009. - Redefining Race and Ethnicity in the US
The number of young Americans with mixed race and ethnicity is rising real fast in the United States. Many are going to college helping to bridge racial and ethnic divides on campuses nationwide. VOA's Todd Grosshans takes a closer look on the campus of the University of Maryland just outside Washington DC. Uploaded on Mar 14, 2011 - Being Multiracial in America
NYTimes.com - Students at Rutgers University discuss the joys and challenges of being Americans of mixed race. Uploaded on Apr 2, 2008 - White People
What does it mean to be white? MTV’s ‘White People’ is a groundbreaking documentary on race that aims to answer that question from the viewpoint of young white people living in America today. The film follows Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and filmmaker, Jose Antonio Vargas, as he travels across the country to get this complicated conversation started. ‘White People’ asks what’s fair when it comes to affirmative action, if colorblindness is a good thing, what privilege really means, and what it’s like to become the “white minority” in your neighborhood. Published on Jul 22, 2015.
Video - YouTube - Race & Ethnicity
- White Kids: Growing Up in in a Racially Divided America DiscussionMargaret Hagerman, sociology professor at Mississippi State University, discussed her book, White Kids: Growing Up in in a Racially Divided America. She spoke at the Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison.
Video - Measure of Hate documentary
- Measure of Hate documentary explores the undercounting of crimes in AmericaFollowing months of investigation, the team at InvestigateTV found numerous serious hate crimes left out of a federal database of hate crimes. The FBI maintains the data; however the FBI itself does not report its own crimes.