« Learn with U.S. », saison 2

Ci-dessous, vous pourrez écouter les différentes épisodes et pour chacun, consulter une liste de références pour aller plus loin sur chaque thématique.

Voting in the US

Who has the power to elect the president of one of the most influential countries in the world and what is it like to be a minority voter there? In this episode we will look at the voting history of the United States of America to find out how the voting system really works, how it has evolved over time, and whether there is hope for more equal representation.

By Lila Dulong, Emma Rimonteil, Leah Sveen et Olivia Wölfel
We would like to thank our professor Agnes Delahaye-Dado for her input and support in realizing this podcast.

Bibliography - “Large Racial Turnout Gap Persisted in 2020 Election | Brennan Center for Justice.” Accessed November 30, 2021. - Remezcla. “A Brief History of Latino Voting Rights Since the 1960s.” Accessed November 30, 2021. . - National Archives. “Black Americans and the Vote,” October 7, 2020. - “Black Turnout in 1964, and Beyond - The New York Times.” Accessed November 30, 2021. - Blais, André, and Filip Kostelka. “Global Voter Turnout Has Been in Decline since the 1960s – We Wanted to Find out Why.” The Conversation. Accessed November 30, 2021. - “Brown et al. - 50 YEARS OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT.Pdf.” Accessed November 30, 2021. - Brown, Khalilah, Zoltan Hajnal, Christina Rivers, and Ismail White. “50 YEARS OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT,” n.d., 46. - Desilver, Drew. “Turnout Soared in 2020 as Nearly Two-Thirds of Eligible U.S. Voters Cast Ballots for President.” Pew Research Center (blog). Accessed November 30, 2021. - Douzou, Marion. “The tumultuous history of the right to vote in the U.S. — Anglais.” Document. Accessed November 30, 2021. - Drutman, Lee. “The Two-Party System Is Killing Our Democracy.” Vox, January 23, 2020. - France Culture. “Etats-Unis : ‘For the People Act’, pour un égal accès au droit de vote,” April 2, 2021. - FairVote.org. “Voter Turnout.” FairVote. Accessed November 30, 2021. https://www.fairvote.org/voter_turnout. - “For Latinos, 1965 Voting Rights Act Impact Came A Decade Later.” Accessed November 30, 2021. - Ghosh, Iman. “Visualizing the U.S. Population by Race.” Visual Capitalist, December 28, 2020. - “Hooray for the Two‐Party System - The New York Times.” Accessed November 30, 2021. - “How The Two-Party System Obscures The Complexity Of Black Americans’ Politics | FiveThirtyEight.” Accessed November 30, 2021. - Igielnik, Ruth, and Abby Budiman. “The Changing Racial and Ethnic Composition of the U.S. Electorate.” Pew Research Center (blog), September 23, 2020. - III, Wilfred Codrington. “The Electoral College’s Racist Origins.” The Atlantic, November 17, 2019. - Mansbridge, Jane. “Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent ‘Yes.’” The Journal of Politics 61, no. 3 (1999): 628–57. - Michael P. McDonald. “National General Election VEP Turnout Rates, 1789-Present.” LSD. Accessed December 1, 2021. - Nast, Condé. “Deconstructing the 2020 Latino Vote.” The New Yorker, December 31, 2020. “Deconstructing the 2020 Latino Vote.” The New Yorker, December 31, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/deconstructing-the-2020-latino-vote. - “Opinion | The End of the Two-Party System - The New York Times.” Accessed November 30, 2021. - Schaeffer, Katherine. “Racial, Ethnic Diversity Increases yet Again with the 117th Congress.” Pew Research Center (blog). Accessed November 30, 2021. - Schouten, Fredreka. “19 States Passed This Year Laws to Restrict Voting, New Tally Finds.” CNN. Accessed November 30, 2021. - USA i Skolen. “The Democrats and the Republicans.” Accessed November 30, 2021. - Hispanic Network Magazine | A Hispanic News Source. “The Difference Between Hispanic and Latino,” September 1, 2017. - Latino USA. “The Latino Vote in Presidential Races: 1980–2012,” October 29, 2015. - The University of Chicago Press. “Property: James Madison, Note to His Speech on the Right of Suffrage.” Accessed November 30, 2021. - Toinet, Marie-France. “Le taux d’abstention témoigne d’un profond scepticisme à l’égard du système politique.” Le Monde diplomatique, November 1, 1976. - “Who Can and Can’t Vote in U.S. Elections | USAGov.” Accessed November 30, 2021. - The Washington post: “2020 turnout is the highest in over a century” By Kevin Schaul, Kate Rabinowitz and Ted Mellnik on Nov. 5, 2020 - Politico: “How Stacey Abrams and her band of believers turned Georgia blue”, By MAYA KING ON 11/08/2020 - Variety: Hollywood praised Stacey Abrams and her and of believers turned Georgia blue” BY Jordan Moreau Jan 6, 2021 - American progress: “Arizona’s Demographic Changes: A Look at the State’s Emerging Communities of Color”  FEB 28, 2012

Mia and Coline ruin your movie: The Blind Side

In this episode of Learn With US, Mia and Coline illustrate the numerous connections between the 2009 movie The Blind Side—directed by John Lee Hancock and inspired by the life of NFL player Michael Oher—and the notion of White Saviourism, or the trope of the white person as the “saviour” of the oppressed. From the deep-rooted origins of the White Saviour Complex in American history to the consequences of such narratives, join us to analyse what seemed at first like an “anti-racist” movie. 

By Mia Borel and Coline Valero

Bibliography - The Blind Side. 2010. [film] Directed by J. L. Hancock. Hollywood - Hughey, Matthew W. “The White Savior Film and Reviewers’ Reception.” Symbolic Interaction, vol. 33, no. 3, [Wiley, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction], 2010, pp. 475–96. - Hesford, Wendy S. “The Malala Effect.” JAC, vol. 34, no. 1/2, JAC, 2014, pp. 139–64. - Allen, Ricky Lee. “WAKE UP, NEO: WHITE IDENTITY, HEGEMONY, AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN ‘THE MATRIX.’” Counterpoints, vol. 209, Peter Lang AG, 2002, pp. 104–25. - Vera, H. and Gordon, A., 2003. Screen saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.  - Oher, Michael. I Beat the Odds : From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond. Reprint, Avery, 2012. - Ash, Erin. “Racial Discourse in ‘The Blind Side’: The Economics and Ideology Behind the White Savior Format.” Studies in Popular Culture, vol. 38, no. 1, Popular Culture Association in the South, 2015, pp. 85–103. - Viral Sports Podcast, and Michael Oher. “Michael Oher Clears The AIR On The ‘Blind Side’ & Speaks On How It REALLY Went Down!” Youtube, 21 Feb. 2021, Accessed 2 Nov. 2021.  - Hughey, Matthew. The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption. Temple University Press, 2014. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/book/28881 - Mollie K. Murphy & Tina M. Harris (2018) White Innocence and Black Subservience: The Rhetoric of White Heroism in The Help, Howard Journal of Communications, 29:1, 49-62 10.1080/10646175.2017.1327378 - Rechstshaffen, Michael. "‘The Blind Side’: Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter, 2009.

Hawaii

In this episode of Learn with US, we are discussing Hawaiian culture and the way Americans have appropriated it. Our analysis will be mostly based on the role of the cinema in this appropriation. 

By Claire Alexandre, Soline Flache and Thelma Monboisse

Bibliography - KUALAPAI, LYDIA. “The Queen Writes Back: Lili’uokalani’s Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen.” Studies in American Indian Literatures 17, no. 2 (2005): 32–62. - Lyons, Paul. “‘They Will Eat Us Up’: Remembering Hawai’i.” American Literary History 16, no. 3 (2004): 543–57. - Frank H. Wu. Review of Racism without Races: America’s Future as Hawaii’s Past, by Jonathan Y. Okamura and Yongho Ch’oe. Journal of American Ethnic History 29, no. 4 (2010): 113–17. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.29.4.0113. - GOODYEAR-KA’OPUA, NOELANI. “Hawai’i: An Occupied Country.” Harvard International Review 35, no. 3 (2014): 58–62. - Farber, David, and Beth Bailey. “The Fighting Man as Tourist: The Politics of Tourist Culture in Hawaii during World War II.” Pacific Historical Review 65, no. 4 (1996): 641–60.  - Hawaiian Customs and Traditions - Culture et traditions à Hawaii - Jon Letman and Julia Carrie-Wong, Hawaiians call Mark Zuckerberg 'the face of neocolonialism' over land lawsuits, The Guardian, 2017  - Trask and Haunani-Kay, The Struggle For Hawaiian Sovereignty - Introduction, Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine, 2000 - Frances Nguyen, The pandemic hasn’t stopped Native Hawaiians’ fight to protect Maunakea, Vox, 2020 - Gwennaëlle Cariou, Tiki Pop : L’Amérique rêve son paradis polynésien, musée du quai Branly, Paris, 24 juin-28 septembre 2014, 2014 Movies and songs - Christopher Kahunahana, Waikiki, 2020 - Ciara Lacy and Jamaica Osorio, This is the way we rise, 2021 - Kimié, To the sea, 2012, 2.36min to 2.57min - Marylin Monroe, Some like it’s hot, 1959, 3.20min to 3.34min - Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu and Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus, He mele no lilo, Lilo and Stitch, 2002

The Hamilton musical

Have you ever heard of The Hamilton Musical? Whether your answer is yes or no, this podcast will teach you with many interesting facts about this masterpiece and its striking impact. It is a musical , unlike no other about Alexander Hamilton, one of America’s founding fathers.

By Ana Astrid Baiesu and Emre Hergunac

Bibliography - Chernow, Ron. “Alexander Hamilton”, Penguin Books, 2004 - ‘Hamilton’ Leads a Record-Breaking Holiday Week on Broadway | NY Times - Why Hamilton is making musical history  | The Guardian - Hamilton: Why the much-loved Broadway musical is under attack | The Indian Express - Five Reasons Why Tupac Is The Greatest Rapper Of All Time | 2PacLegacy - Remembering A Legend: 17 Artists Inspired By 2Pac | iHeart - ‘Hamilton’ Cast and Casting Directors On the Diversity of the Cast | IndieWire - 'Hamilton' producers defend diverse casting | usatoday - Alexander Hamilton: Your Guide To The Real History Behind the Musical | HistoryExtra - How Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Hamilton' Shapes History | The Atlantic - Alexander Hamilton | Biography, Duel, Musical, & Facts | Britannica

Abortion in the US

An analysis of the political strategies that have turned abortion into a partisan issue since the Second World War, with particular attention to the Christian Conservative coalition.

By Zuzanna Szleszynska, Chiara Amoruso, Anna Weber

Bibliography - Diamant, Jeff. “Three-In-Ten or More Democrats and Republicans Don’t Agree with Their Party on Abortion.” Pew Research Center, 18 June 2020. - Hellmann, Jessie. “Klobuchar: ‘We Need to Build a Big Tent’ for Anti-Abortion Democrats.” TheHill, 11 Feb. 2020. - Saul, Stephanie. “Joe Biden Said He Did Not View Abortion ‘as a Choice and a Right’ in 2006.” The New York Times, 13 June 2019. - Smith, Kate. “Anti-Abortion Democrats Head into Super Tuesday without a Candidate to Support.” www.cbsnews.com, 2020, - Sundberg, Annie, and Ricki Stern. “Reversing Roe.” Netflix, 2018. - North, A. (2019). How abortion became a partisan issue in America. [online] - McKeegan M. The politics of abortion: a historical perspective. Womens Health Issues. 1993 Fall;3(3):127-31. doi: 10.1016/s1049-3867(05)80245-2. PMID: 8274866. - Abortion. (2021). Gallup Poll. [online] - Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973). - Dz.U. z 2021 r. poz. 175. - Europe’s abortion rules. BBC News (2007). - M. Ben Barka, 2015, “Les liens entre la droite chrétienne américaine et le “Grand Old Party” des années 1950 aux années Bush” dans dir. Frédéric Robert “Les Républicains. De Dwight D. Einsenhower à Georges W.Bush (1952-2008)” Presses universitaires de Rennes - A, Barb, 2015, “Les Républicains et la droite religieuse de Richard Nixonà Georeges W.Bush” dans dir. Frédéric Robert “Les Républicains. De Dwight D. Einsenhower à Georges W.Bush (1952-2008)” Presses universitaires de Rennes - NEH Hull, W Hoffer, PC Hoffer, 2004, “The Abortion Rights, Controversy in America, A Legal Reader” The University of North Carolina Press

Diverse literature

Diverse literature in the US still has a long way to go, and in order for it to be more present in our lives, we must work for it to be represented in academic institutions, shops and libraries, the media, and many other fields.

By Antoine Astruc and Elena Ruiz Mendoza

References - “All Nobel Prizes in Literature.” NobelPrize.org, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, 16 Nov. 2021.  - Anderson, Jill. "Hooked on classics." Harvard Ed. Magazine Fal, 2019. - Arana, Marie. “We Are a Nation of Many Voices.” Multicultural Literature in the United States Today, vol. 14, no. 2, 2009, pp. 4-6. - Blair, Walter, et al. “Multicultural Writing.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 18 Aug. 2021.  - Early, Gerald . “What is African-American Literature?” Multicultural Literature in the United States Today, vol. 14, no. 2, 2009, pp. 17-20. - Lee, A. Robert. Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/A and Asian American Fictions. Edinburgh University Press, 2019.  - “Marie's Story.” Marie Arana, 20 Aug. 2021. - Jones, Tayari. “Literature at the crossroads.” Multicultural Literature in the     United States Today, vol. 14, no. 2, 2009, pp. 9-11. - Thomas, William Isaac and Dorothy Swaine. The Child in America: behavior problems and programs . New-York: Knopf, 1928 , pp. 571-572. - “Why Hasn’t the Number of Multicultural Books Increased In Eighteen Years?” leeandlow.com , June 17 2013

Gentrification

This podcast is about gentrification in Brooklyn. A specialist gives us more details about it to help us understand what it means and what effects it has. 

By Salomé Beauvoir et Alice Churassy

Bibliography - Alain Bourdin, Gentrification, une conception à déconstruire - Themis Chronopoulos, “What’s Happened to the People?” Gentrification and Racial Segregation in Brooklyn - Erin Schumarek, L’embourgeoisement des quartiers aux États-Unis, un sombre diagnostic - Marie Rousseau, Brooklyn : Spike Lee contre les hipsters blancs et leurs poussettes - Justin Davidson, Is gentrification all bad ? - Jane Jacobs, Change or die : Gentrification in Brooklyn - Chronopoulos, T. “What’s Happened to the People?” Gentrification and Racial Segregation in Brooklyn. J Afr Am St 24, 549–572 (2020). - History of Brooklyn, New York, 2021   https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2139.html and https://www.brooklyn-usa.org

Joseph McCarthy

In this podcast we are going to discover the intricate life of Joseph McCarthy, an infamous Republican senator known for his central part in the 1950's witch hunt against communism in the USA.

By Chloe Joncheray and Jeanne Lapoussin

Bibliography - Griffith, Robert. “The Political Context of McCarthyism.”. The Review of Politics 33, no. 1, 1971, p. 24–35. - Kaspy, André. ""Maccarthysme": la peur américaine". L'Histoire, mensuel 27, 1980. - O’Brien, Michael. “Young Joe McCarthy, 1908-1944.”. The Wisconsin Magazine of History 63, no. 3, 1980, p. 178–232.  - Oshinsky, David M. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 175. - Yost, Austin. "Seeing Rad in Double Vision". Honors Theses, Florida State University Libraries, 2013.

Malcom X and Martin Luther King. Looking for a Leader

In this podcast we will discuss the context, the biographies of Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr. in order to find the roots of their ideologies and understand how even with different approaches on the fight against segregation both characters became leaders in this historic movement.

By Brando Bastidas  et José Mendoza

Bibliography - Claude Chastagner, “Révoltes et utopies, militantisme et contre-culture dans l’Amérique des années soixantes.” Paris : Presses universitaires de France, Vanves : CNED, impr. 2011. - Vivienne Sanders, “Race relations in the USA 1863-1980”, London : Hodder Education, cop. 2006 - Caroline Rolland-Diamond, “Black America, Une histoire des luttes pour l’égalité et la justice (XIX - XXème siècle)” La Découverte, 2016. Links - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/martin-luther-king-jr - https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/martin-luther-king-jr - https://malcolmx.com/biography/ - https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52678571 - https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/freedom-rides - https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/freedom-summer - https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/naacp - https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/bloody-sunday-selma-alabama-march-7-1965/ - https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/black-panther-party/ - https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/w-e-b-du-bois

Politics and Social Media

In our present day, social media are at the heart of society. In this podcast, we tried to see the links between politicians and social networks. You will understand why politicians use these new and essential media. Political propaganda, its effects on the general population, and more generally the dangers of the use of social media will be discussed in this podcast and you’ll be able to handle all of this afterwards. This podcast mixes humor, entertainment and useful information for your daily digital life !

By Yanis Touhlali et Gaëtan Juhel

Bibliography - Joe Biden has his own island on 'Animal Crossing' where you can learn about his campaign, CNN Business, By Alaa Elassar, October 18, 2020 - News Consumption Across Social Media in 2021, by mason walker and Katerina Eva Matsa, September 20, 2021 - About four-in-ten Americans say social media is an important way of following COVID-19 vaccine news, by Amy Mitchell and Jacob Liedke, August 24 2021 - Partisan divides in media trust widen, driven by a decline among Republicans, BY JEFFREY GOTTFRIED AND JACOB LIEDKE, AUGUST 30, 2021 - The politics of using social media to reach masses, Oct 16, 2021 - Becoming a Social Media Sensation: AOC as a Case Study - New Moon, DOUG SCHOWENGERDT, 19 DECEMBER 2020 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s tips on using social media are the lesson we all need, By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, January 18, 2019. - AOC's Digital Juggernaut, By Nick Corasaniti, June 23, 2020 - Marjorie Taylor Greene removes social media posts amid scrutiny of past controversial comments, By Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN, January 28, 2021 - Rep. Greene agrees not to block critics from Twitter account, March 26, 2021 - Marjorie Taylor Greene Banned From Twitter Again, by Peter Suciu, August 10, 2021 - Social Media Guidelines for ISO/IEC committees - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — and her conspiracy theories — won't get expelled from Congress, By Hayes Brown, MSNBC Opinion Columnist, Feb. 1, 2021 - Biden's Twitch Channel Banned the Word 'Frack' and Mentions of 'War Crimes', By Matthew Gault, October 9, 2020 - Record High Turnout in 2020 General Election, by Jacob Fabina, April 29, 2021 - BRENNAN Murphy,  Twitter [Online]. October 21, 202 - AOC to discuss stock market on Twitch stream tonight, By NATE SEARL January 28, 2021 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now playing Animal Crossing. And she’s visiting her followers., By Gene Park, May 7, 2020 - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Twitter [Online]. May 8, 2020  - AOC To Play Among Us On Twitch With Canadian Politician Jagmeet Singh, BY BRYAN LAWVER, PUBLISHED NOV 26, 2020 - People say they regularly see false and misleading content on social media – but also new ideas, BY AARON SMITH, LAURA SILVER, COURTNEY JOHNSON AND JINGJING JIANG, May 13, 2019.  - Demographics of Social Media Users and Adoption in the United States, April 7, 2021 - SOCIAL MEDIA IN TODAY'S WORLD — Steemit, by King3071, 2016 - Benefits of internet and social media | Online behaviour and social media - People say they regularly see false and misleading content on social media – but also new ideas, by Aaron Smith, Laura Silver, Courtney Johnson and Jinjing Jiang, May 13, 2019 - Sacha Baron Cohen: Facebook would have let Hitler buy ads for 'final solution', by Andrew Pulver, November 22, 2019

The attack on the Capitol

By Ange-Michael Ahoton, Mariam Marciniak et Ranya Yala

Online press article - Le Monde, 2021 Etats-Unis: après des scènes de chaos à Washington, le Capitole est sécurisé, et la séance de certification de la victoire de Joe Biden a repris. - The Guardian, 2021, The Capitol attack. - Direct Monde, 2021, Washington d'ici, L'attaque du capitol. - Martin Luther King, 2010, The struggle for freedom History, 2017-2021, Kent State shooting Youtube - The New Yorker, 2021, A Reporter’s footage from inside the Capitol siege. - Le Monde, 2021, Invasion du Capitol: comment des milices américaines ont préparé l’assaut. - Guardian News, 2021, Capitol riot police officer: ‘’I was at a risk of being killed with my own firearm.’’

Sports scholarship at university: benefit or illusion ?

In the United States, sports scholarships can be seen as a first step in a professional career because they are giving advantages to student-athlete. However, getting a scholarship is difficult and when an athlete get one, it involves a lot of sacrifices.

By Nathan Contant, Juan Falcon and Bianca Duval

Bibliography - https://stacksports.captainu.com/what-tom-brady-can-teach-you-about-the-recruiting-process/ - https://www.archysport.com/2021/09/when-things-dont-go-well-you-have-to-look-at-your-heart/ - https://www.sportscasting.com/tom-brady-credits-much-of-his-success-to-greg-harden/ - https://scholarshipstats.com/ivies - https://news.usc.edu/trojan-family/college-athlete-mental-health-usc-sports-psychologists/ - https://sportsempire.org/downsides-of-being-a-student-athlete/ - https://vittana.org/14-should-college-athletes-be-paid-pros-and-cons - https://thedanamariner.com/8552/opinion/do-student-athletes-get-special-privileges/ - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2645104 - https://www.savingforcollege.com/article/college-scholarships-statistics

White privilege, or how there are none so blind as those who will not see

In France, we have always approached racism through the only prism of the discriminated ones, whether in teaching, academic or medias sources. In contrast, Anglo-Saxon academia (mainly in the United States and the United-Kingdom) has highlighted the existence of a 'white privilege', which shifts the way in which the racial question is approached: to understand racism, we must first turn to those who, unconsciously or not, perpetuate it.
In this podcast, we will look at how the legacy of segregation is still being imposed on black people today. To make this a bit more concrete, we will use the example of housing, where there are huge disparities between certain neighborhoods. If all this seems a priori a bit indigestible, we also talk about films and series available on Netflix that deal with the issue in a very relevant way ! See you soon!

By Charlotte Roussel and Marion Pasteur

Sources académiques - Krysan, Maria, et al. ‘Does Race Matter in Neighborhood Preferences? Results from a Video Experiment’. American Journal of Sociology, vol. 115, no. 2, 2009, pp. 527–59. Crossref, doi:10.1086/599248 - Behrent, Michel. ‘Aux États-Unis à l’ère d’Obama : Un Racisme sans Racistes ?’ Identité(s), 2016, pp. 293–300, www.cairn.info/identites--9782361063283-page-293.htm. Articles de presse - BusinessAM. ‘10 faits choquants sur les inégalités entre les Noirs et les Blancs aux Etats-Unis’. Business AM, 23 Aug. 2014. - Slate.fr. ‘Les Noirs et Les Blancs ne se mélangent pas Aux États-Unis’. Slate.Fr, 22 Aug. 2016. Ouvrages - Eddo-Lodge, Reni. Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race. Reprint, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.  - Coates, Ta-Nehisi, and Autrement. Une Colère Noire : Lettre à Mon Fils (Essais et Documents) (French Edition). French and European Publications Inc, 2016.  Séries/films - France Inter. ‘Aux Etats-Unis, Netflix questionne le “privilège blanc”’. France Inter, 14 June 2021. - Ducres, Thomas. ‘Your Honor, la série qui aborde le privilège blanc et le racisme systémique’. myCANAL, 26 Aug. 2021. - Joyard, Olivier. ‘La série “Little Fires Everywhere” : luttes de classe et de race made in US’. Les Inrocks, 17 Mar. 2021.

Whiteness in American advertising

Racism and white privilege in American advertising have been controversial topics throughout history. Artina, Julie and Anisa are going to shine some light on the issue,  underlining its omnipresence up until today in a debate taking into consideration different points of view. 

By Anisa Ali Gunica, Julie Rodo and Artina Binaku

Bibliography - Julia M. Bristor, “Race and Ideology: African-American Images in Television Advertising”,  Journal of Public Policy & Marketing Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 48-59 (12 pages)  - Shalini Shankar, “Nothing Sells like Whiteness: Race, Ontology, and American Advertising.” https://anthrosource-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.bibelec.univ-lyon2.fr/doi/full/10.1111/aman.1335. Consulté le 30 Dec. 2019. - Arwa Mahdawi, “The Truth about Adverts: Selling the White Woman™”, The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 29 Apr. 2015.  - Amy Watson. “Topic: Minorities in Media.” Statista.  - Duke Franklin Humanities Institute, Hank Willis Thomas seminar extract, Youtube  - “Rutgers Sociologist Examines Racial Ambiguity in Media and Advertising.” Rutgers University.

The American Dream

I've always dreamed of living the American Dream ... that founding concept of the United States, but what is it? Success, a dream and reality? We are going to explore the economic and social situation in the United States: social ascent, social mobility, family values, material comfort… Let’s learn together the history of the American dream: is it a myth or reality?

By Estelle Pothin and Marware Ouro-Kavalah

Bibliography - Truslow Adams, James, and Howard Schneiderman. 2017. The Epic of America. Routledge. - “American Dream.” n.d. Corporate Finance Institute. Accessed December 17, 2021. - Cullen, Jim. 2003. The American Dream: A Short History of an Idea That Shaped a Nation. Google Books. Oxford University Press, USA. - Lu, Marcus. 2020. “Is the American Dream Over? Here’s What the Data Says.” World Economic Forum. September 2, 2020. - “Most Say American Dream Is within Reach for Them.” n.d. Pew Research Center. Accessed December 17, 2021. - “U.S. Enfants Vivant Dans Famille Monoparentale 1970-2018.” n.d. Statista. Accessed December 17, 2021. - Sisson. P, Andrews. J, Bazelev. Alex, 2020 “ The affordable housing crisis, explained” curbed. - De Saint-Quentin, Hugues, 2018 “Armes à feu : la France et les Etats-Unis sont-ils si différents que ça ?” French Morning.

Le but de cet exercice est de valoriser les compétences orales des étudiant-e-s par l'apprentissage de compétences nouvelles (le podcast) et le suivi d'un projet concret portant sur un aspect de la civilisation états-unienne sur l'ensemble du semestre. 

Nous avons commencé le semestre par une série de lectures et de discussions en classe sur le thème du racisme structurel aux États-Unis, puis en semaine 5, les étudiant.es ont choisi leurs thèmes et leurs équipes en vue de la réalisation d'un podcast en groupe sur un sujet de leur choix.

De la semaine 7 à la semaine 11, nous nous sommes retrouvés en TD pour travailler collectivement et par équipe à la fois la dimension technique de l'exercice et la démarche de recherche et de rédaction derrière chaque projet.

Les podcasts ont été rendus en fin de semestre et ont constitué 60% de la note finale de chaque étudiant.e. Ont été évalués la qualité de la recherche en amont, la structure et la clarté de chaque argument ou présentation, le travail collaboratif, la qualité de l'enregistrement et l'enthousiasme des équipes, qui ont su toutes mener à bien leur projet initial, malgré les difficultés imposées par la pandémie.

Compétence visées - Travailler en équipe à distance - Mener à bout un projet collaboratif - Produire un document sonore en anglais destiné au public étudiant - Concevoir le contenu et la forme d’un document sonore en anglais - Maitriser la technique de la conception d’un document sonore - Élaborer et utiliser une bibliographie - Savoir synthétiser une question à partir d’un ensemble de sources complexes

La 3e année de licence Science politique - Anglais permet aux étudiant.es d’approfondir leurs connaissances dans les domaines abordés en L2, avec une spécialisation accrue : Sociologie des mobilisations collectives, Sociologie historique de l’État, Analyse de l’action publique, Problèmes de la mondialisation, Politiques de l’Union européenne et Politique comparée. Cette troisième année vise également à donner aux étudiant-e-s un bagage renforcé en sciences sociales, en particulier en méthodes d’enquête. → En savoir plus

La 3e de licence Sciences sociales et anglais offre, à travers quatre parcours spécifiques, une spécialisation thématique à la fois dans les disciplines complémentaires et dans chacune des disciplines du tronc commun, pour préparer et favoriser la poursuite d’études dans les différents masters du site (en particulier les masters pluridisciplinaires). L’objectif en fin de cursus est de rendre les étudiants autonomes dans la constitution d’une enquête en sciences sociales, de la définition de la problématique à la restitution des résultats , en passant par la définition d’une méthodologie, la production d’outils d’investigation, le recueil et l’analyse des données. → En savoir plus