Imperialism, Part 1 

Your Homework for this week....

 1.  Read the two short book sections posted on Blackboard (one from Mandela’s autobiography; one from Gandhi’s autobiography)
2.  You have 2 choices for the second part of your homework:  Attend the Invisible Children film screening and talk-back on Monday, Oct. 1 (7 pm, Lindsay Auditorium), OR read the following articles and watch the following interview:

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/the-soft-bigotry-of-kony-2012/254194/
http://sayhelloafrica.com/post/18893492141/kony-2012-why-i-love-the-idea-but-hate-the-campaign **read through some of the comments on this one, too!

 **There is an ongoing debate, especially within development/humanitarian circles, about whether certain Western approaches to issues in developing countries are inherently imperialist. Invisible Children has been put at the center of this debate in a pretty public way this year with the KONY2012 campaign. Please note that I’m not saying that Invisible Children is an imperialist organization, but rather asking you to look directly at this issue (and the debate surrounding it) with a critical eye.