Interviews!
Readings:
Wilhelmus Petrus Du Preez, Genocide: The Psychology of Mass Murder (London: Boyars/Bowerdean, 1994). [Simple, short, readable intro and overview book]
Alexander Hinton, Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide, University of California Press, 2005
Alexander Hinton, Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide, University of California Press, 2002
Alexander Hinton, Genocide: An Anthropological Reader, Blackwell, 2002
Films:
Night and Fog (31 mins) [Both poetic and graphic documentary of the Holocaust. The length makes it usable for a class, but I would strongly recommend that anyone considering showing it actually watches it first. Some of it is quite disturbing.]
Obedience (45 mins) [Movie of a famous psychology experiment by Dr. Stanley Milgram showing how readily everyday people submit to the orders of an authority to harm another person.]
Web:
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
[Summarizes the life work of PJ Rummel, a political scientist who has been trying to document every mass killing in history. This section focuses on the 20th century. He gets a staggering total of 262 million people killed by mass murder and genocide in the 20th century.]
With Nadia’s poems I find
myself in the darkest of my longing questions, come to light, as she
sheds to me hopeful answers. Her poems are short and soft, yet
incredibly effective, bringing on a sense of awe. It was difficult to
find a favorite poem, for much of this work sparkles. Wherever one
turns, words fly out and blind the reader. She is truly a gifted
writer, brilliant in both mind and spirit. I would recommend Unscrambled
Eggs to be read by anyone at any age of life.
REVIEWER: Anthony Liccione
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