Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 32: Propaganda
Cathy G. Johnson
Artwork by remus jackson.
Drawing a Dialogue is a podcast discussing comics in historical + educational contexts by Cathy G. Johnson + remus jackson.
Episode 32: Cathy + remus talk about the way propaganda has historically shaped the dominate United States way of thinking. remus discusses the propagandistic role of comics and superheroes in proliferating violent vigilanteism. Cathy discusses how history was taught with propagandistic intention, + shares ways the art classroom can illuminate historical context.
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Episode Links:
“Floyd’s death hastens shift in police pop culture portrayals,” 2020 - AP
Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 7: Violence in Comics + How It Affects Us - Link
Adam Johnson, "The 8 Most Popular Types of 'Copaganda': How the Police Play the Media" AlterNet, 2016 - Link
Paul Hirsch. “‘This Is Our Enemy’: The Writers’ War Board and Representations of Race in Comic Books, 1942–1945”. Pacific Historical Review, Aug., 2014 - JSTOR
Nickie D. Phillips and Staci Strobl. Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way, NYU Press, 2013 - Link
Drawing A Dialogue, Episode 12: History Of Racism + Physiognomy In Cartooning - Link
Chris Gavaler. “The Ku Klux Klan and the Birth of the Superhero”, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Vol 4.3, 2013 - Link
Upcoming in Studies in Comics: Brianna Anderson, “Revolutionary paratext and critical pedagogy in Nathan Hale’s One Dead Spy”
Reconstructing History, 1st Edition, by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (Editor), Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn (Editor) - Link
Drawing A Dialogue, Episode 10: The Canon - Link
“The Conversation Ignored Too Long: Race and Racism in Education and Society,” panel by The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), panelist Liza Talusan
“Early American History and the National History Standards” Author(s): Gary B. Nash Source: The William and Mary Quarterly , Jul., 1997, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Jul., 1997), pp. 579- 600
Zinn Ed Project, teaching resources - Link
“The New Jim Crow Museum,” Dr. David Pilgrim - YouTube
“The Image of the Black in Western Art,” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - YouTube
List of Black American sculptors: Edmonia Lewis, Tina Allen, Elizabeth Catlett, and Winnie Owens-Hart.
Titus Kaphar, “Can art amend history?,” 2017 - TED
DARE, Direction Action for Rights and Equality - Link
Providence Student Union petition to support Counselors not Cops - Link
Abolition Can't Wait: A Teach in with #8toAboltion - YouTube
Radiator Comics, July 14 panel that remus is speaking on! - Link
Theme song by Downtown Boys