UNIVERSITY STATEMENTS
President
Hodge....................................................October
30, 2007
Institutional Response Team.................................November
1, 2007
Jim Lentini, Dean, School of
Fine Arts
Professor dele jedege, Chair, Department
of Art.....November 2, 2007
Sally Lloyd and Mary Jane Berman........................November
2, 2007
Memo from President Hodge.................................April
11, 2008
THE MIAMI REPORT
What is lynching?
By ROBERT THURSTON
Published: January 31, 2008
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MIAMI
UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATED STUDENT GOVERNMENT
(ASG)
A Resolution In Response to the Events
of October 30, 2007 [ PDF ]
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THE MIAMI STUDENT
Students' art display evokes
conflict
http://media.www.miamistudent.net/media/storage/paper776/news/2007/11/02/
FrontPage/Students.Art.Display.Evokes.Conflict-3074616.shtml
Miami
U. officials respond to complaints surrounding
controversial art display
http://media.www.miamistudent.net/media/storage/paper776/news/2007/11/09/
FrontPage/Miami.U.Officials.Respond.To.Complaints.Surrounding.Controversial.Art.Display-3090823.shtml
Professor disputes noose project approval process
http://media.www.miamistudent.net/media/storage/paper776/news/2007/11/30/Editorials/Letters-3124426-page2.shtml
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US MEDIA COVERAGE
U.S. News & World Report,
Friday, Nov. 16
View Full Article
Story about
nooses at universities being a nationwide
epidemic lists schools that have had incidents,
including Miami University.
Bill Moyers Journal | Watch & Listen | PBS, November 23, 2007
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11232007/watch.html
New York Times - Geography of Hate
By MARK POTOK, LUKE VISCONTI, BARBARA FRANKEL and NIGEL HOLMES
Published: November 25, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/opinion/25potok.html?_r=2&oref=slogin
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VIDEOS AND DVDS
To make arrangements
to view these videos and/or DVD's,
please call the Center for American
and World Cultures at 529-8309. Please
visit our website, http://www.muohio.edu/cawc and
click on "Videos" to
learn more about each of these
presentations.
"The
Noose: an American Nightmare" (aired
on CNN, Thursday, November
1, 2007)
"American Experience:
the Murder of Emmett Till"
"Beyond Brown: Pursuing the Promise"
"Freedom on My Mind"
"Mississippi America"
"Murder in Mississippi-the Price
of Freedom"
"One Drop of Blood: the American
Misadventure of Race" (Scott Malcolmson)
"Race: the Power of an Illusion"
Part II
"Race: the Power of an Illusion"
Part III
"Skin Deep"
"Talking About Race"
"The Color of Fear"
"Voices of Civil Rights"
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WEBSITES WITH TEACHING MATERIALS
TOLERANCE.ORG
http://www.tolerance.org
Fight Hate and Promote Tolerance
Contains numerous useful links.
Of particular relevance are:
Six Lessons from Jena (including the role
of the noose as hate symbol)
http://www.tolerance.org/teach/activities/activity.jsp?ar=867
Ten Ways to Fight Hate on Campus
http://www.tolerance.org/campus
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
http://www.adl.org
Contains numerous useful links.
Of particular relevance are:
Foxman and Sharpton on Hate Symbols
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/DiRaB_41/5160_00.htm
Civil Rights
http://www.adl.org/civil_rights/
THE NOOSE: AN AMERICAN NIGHTMARE
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/siu/the.noose/
Without SANCTUARY
http://withoutsanctuary.org/
is a Web site that contains photographs
and postcards of lynching in America, with
a compelling commentary by James Allen.
You can view these photographs singly,
or as a montage with narration.
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES
Jena 6
http://www.facinghistory.org/campus/reslib.nsf/sub/newsviews/makingconnections/jena_6
WHAT KIDS CAN DO
What Can Jena Teach Us?
http://www.whatkidscando.org/featurestories/2007/10_jena/index.html
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AREA MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL
SITES
Funds are available for
student groups and classes to visit these
sites. Please
visit the Center for
American and World Cultures website, http://www.muohio.edu/cawc,
click on "Contact Us".
The National Underground Railroad and
Freedom Museum (Cincinnati, Ohio)
http://www.freedomcenter.org/
OTHER MUSEUMS AND HISTORICAL SITES
The National Civil Rights Museum
(Memphis, Tennessee)
http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/
http://nmaahc.si.edu/
The National Museum of African
American History and Culture
HISTORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN OHIO
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ohshtml/aaeohome.html
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LIBRARY RESOURCES
Books
Title: Cruel and unusual : punishment and US culture
Author: Jarvis, Brian
Call number: HV9466 .J37 2004
The author discusses The Scarlet
Letter, the Rosenburgs, the African-American experience, The Noose,
Melville and masochism, the American prison film, and A Minority
Report.
Title: From noose to needle : capital punishment and the late liberal
state
Author: Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy
V. (Timothy Vance), 1953
Call number: HV8699.U5 K38 2002
The author provides a new perspective
on the controversial topic of capital punishment. By asking how the
conduct of state killing reveals broader contradictions in the contemporary
liberal state -especially, but not exclusively, in the United States.
Title: Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope
Author: Beverley Naidoo
Call number: PS3553.R47 N66 1980
A book with several stories from
the last half of the twentieth
century and into the twenty-first;
it features fictional characters
caught up in very real events. Included is a Timeline Across Apartheid,
which recounts some of the restrictive laws passed during this era,
the events leading up to South Africa's first free democratic elections,
and the establishment of a new "rainbow
government" that leads the country today.
Articles
Title: The Deep South, the white tree, the noose
Author: Andrew Stephen
http://www.newstatesman.com/200710250028
Title: Another Liberal Noose-ance
Author: Ann Coulter
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22909
Newspapers & Journals
HOW TO READ A NOOSE
http://www.chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i11/11b02401.htm
by Professor Troy Duster, Department
of Sociology, NYU
Section: The Chronicle Review
Volume 54, Issue 11, Page B24
Legacy of lynching lost on noose pranksters
http://www.browardtimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=630&Itemid=37
by JOY-ANN REID
Section: Brown Times
Last Updated: Friday, 19 October 2007
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PLEASE SEND US ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
Please send Mary Jane Berman,
Director, Center for
American and World Cultures, bermanmj@muohio.edu additional
information to be added
to this resource page.
Thank you.
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