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ZineFinalProject.pdf

Dr. Nicolas

Global Racism (Spring 2025) Zine Course Final Assignment

Due: Thursday, June 12th at 9am

The purpose of this final assignment is to help guide you on a topic of your choice concerning racism. It is also to get your critical ideas and visions into a creative and alternative dissemination format. A zine is a self- published and self-circulating work that has typically been created and circulated by an individual or a collective. Historically, it provides social, political, cultural, gender, class, etc. information to marginalized communities free of charge or based on a small donation. In short (5-page double-space written content), this is a DIY project. This can be a digital zine (shared link) or a hardcopy (printed) zine submission. You may use Canva or whatever tech savvy app, or media outlet you know to create your zine. If you decide to do your zine digitally, please paste the link to your zine on Canvas. Get creative and share what you know, but YOU MUST back it up with historically and structural accurate scholarly information! Thus, your analysis will be critical! You must include three concepts from the reading but only one can be from the week you presented on the readings. All readings cited will be based on class readings. Feel free to use lecture notes and class films sporadically. You must use six readings and correctly cite them at the end of your zine.

Pick your research topic: Use your imagination and choose something that will be exciting to learn or inform others on. Your zine can be on a specific topic concerning racism in the past, ongoing, or currently, such as settler colonialism, labor exploitation, indigenismo/mestizaje, slavery, sexual violence and the law, trans. rights, the Zapatistas and the state, South African or Palestinian Apartheid, occupation, the holocaust, May, the Uyghur, Armenian, Myanmar genocide, a book, or a movie, etc.

What is your research topic?

Briefly describe why you chose your research topic?:

Dr. Nicolas

Pick at least THREE concepts from the course: Your concepts should help you understand and analyze the topic you are studying such as, structural racism, whiteness, settler colonialism, colonialism (colonial), imperialism, decolonization, genocide. Be specific and direct with your concepts.

Identify your THREE concepts that we have read on and briefly describe how they will/have help you understand your topic:

Format Guidelines: 5 or more double-spaced pages of written content on your zine. Your last page should contain the work cited/bibliography. Either Chicago Style Citation or MLA Citation is required. Images, of course, are strongly encouraged!

GHR-CambodiaGenocideWeek6.pptx

Cambodia Genocide

Week 6

Dr. Nicolas

Group Question 1

According to the short clip, "Apartheid's Legacy," what are some of the legacies still encountered in post-apartheid South Africa? Why are they difficult to overcome, even when apartheid has formally ended?

AND/OR

Why are Truth and Reconciliation Commissions a difficult task?

AND/OR

In what ways are the perpetrators of the South African apartheid system and those of the Cambodian Genocide not held accountable for their crimes? What are the diverging criticisms surrounding these actions or lack thereof?

The Milgrim Experiment (1963)

The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants, men from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education, to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience; the experiment found, unexpectedly, that a very high proportion of people were prepared to obey, albeit unwillingly, even if apparently causing serious injury and distress. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.

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Democratic Kampuchea : Khmer Rouge

Democratic Kampuchea Regime (April 1975-January 1979)

Radical Maoist-inspired communist regime- Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK)

Overthrew the prince of Cambodia in 1960s

Victory was its take over the city in 1975

Devastating bomb threats by US following Vietnam invasion

Resulted in 150,000 dead civilians

Ordered most in the city to abandon home & possessions & go to the countryside.

Private possessions and property were taken and kept under state ownership

Eliminated currency, communal work, & dining

Pol Pot (1925-1998)

Ruled "Democratic Kampucha" (1976-1979) as dictator of Communist regime

Inspiration from Russian Revolution & rise of Soviet Union during studies at Paris on Marxism.

Worked in rural areas of Cambodia in which he sympathized with peasants.

Khmer Rouge

Moral order of respect, honor, and obey of social superiors

Extremely hierarchical

Only loyalty was to the government-- "Ang Kar"

"Bending down" to social order imposed by social superior

They can be both verbally, or not, expressed

Face: Reflects one's place in social order. Predicated on the extent to which others respect, honor, & obey

Shield: Lurking in the background of any public interaction. Usu. From fear of exposure and shame

Forced to march to rural parts (farms)

Work in farms or irrigation systems for the collectivized farms

Those unable to keep up, such as kids and elderly were executed

1.5 million died during the Cambodia Genocide

Khmer Rouge System

Undermined bonds between parents and child

Linguistic changes

Forced separations

Difficult work schedules

Children's groups

Communalization

Antifamily propaganda

Encouraged to report parents/family/neighbors as "traitors" or "enemy" of the revolution

Indoctrination of "Cutting off one's feelings/heart"

"Killing Fields"

Executions had very bureaucratic system in place

Honor favored the "poor, rural 'old people,' and the young"

Opposition: the rich, the urban, the elder w/in these spaces

Killed with makeshift weapons (sharpen bamboos), axes... bullets cannot be wasted.

Smashing skulls into trees or hard surface

19,000 mass graves uncovered, more to be found

"To generate genocidal behaviors, sociopolitical changes must be accompanied by a violent ideology" (167).

Discussion Post: How does the documentary relate to the Cambodian Genocide reading, "Why Did You Kill"?

Reading-Lecture Prompt 2

Based on the South African Reconciliation, Rwanda & Cambodia genocide articles, what made Apartheid & Genocide possible? In other words, what drove complicity?

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ZineFinalProject.pdf

Dr. Nicolas

Global Racism (Spring 2025) Zine Course Final Assignment

Due: Thursday, June 12th at 9am

The purpose of this final assignment is to help guide you on a topic of your choice concerning racism. It is also to get your critical ideas and visions into a creative and alternative dissemination format. A zine is a self- published and self-circulating work that has typically been created and circulated by an individual or a collective. Historically, it provides social, political, cultural, gender, class, etc. information to marginalized communities free of charge or based on a small donation. In short (5-page double-space written content), this is a DIY project. This can be a digital zine (shared link) or a hardcopy (printed) zine submission. You may use Canva or whatever tech savvy app, or media outlet you know to create your zine. If you decide to do your zine digitally, please paste the link to your zine on Canvas. Get creative and share what you know, but YOU MUST back it up with historically and structural accurate scholarly information! Thus, your analysis will be critical! You must include three concepts from the reading but only one can be from the week you presented on the readings. All readings cited will be based on class readings. Feel free to use lecture notes and class films sporadically. You must use six readings and correctly cite them at the end of your zine.

Pick your research topic: Use your imagination and choose something that will be exciting to learn or inform others on. Your zine can be on a specific topic concerning racism in the past, ongoing, or currently, such as settler colonialism, labor exploitation, indigenismo/mestizaje, slavery, sexual violence and the law, trans. rights, the Zapatistas and the state, South African or Palestinian Apartheid, occupation, the holocaust, May, the Uyghur, Armenian, Myanmar genocide, a book, or a movie, etc.

What is your research topic?

Briefly describe why you chose your research topic?:

Dr. Nicolas

Pick at least THREE concepts from the course: Your concepts should help you understand and analyze the topic you are studying such as, structural racism, whiteness, settler colonialism, colonialism (colonial), imperialism, decolonization, genocide. Be specific and direct with your concepts.

Identify your THREE concepts that we have read on and briefly describe how they will/have help you understand your topic:

Format Guidelines: 5 or more double-spaced pages of written content on your zine. Your last page should contain the work cited/bibliography. Either Chicago Style Citation or MLA Citation is required. Images, of course, are strongly encouraged!

GHR-CambodiaGenocideWeek6.pptx

Cambodia Genocide

Week 6

Dr. Nicolas

Group Question 1

According to the short clip, "Apartheid's Legacy," what are some of the legacies still encountered in post-apartheid South Africa? Why are they difficult to overcome, even when apartheid has formally ended?

AND/OR

Why are Truth and Reconciliation Commissions a difficult task?

AND/OR

In what ways are the perpetrators of the South African apartheid system and those of the Cambodian Genocide not held accountable for their crimes? What are the diverging criticisms surrounding these actions or lack thereof?

The Milgrim Experiment (1963)

The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants, men from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education, to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience; the experiment found, unexpectedly, that a very high proportion of people were prepared to obey, albeit unwillingly, even if apparently causing serious injury and distress. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.

3

Democratic Kampuchea : Khmer Rouge

Democratic Kampuchea Regime (April 1975-January 1979)

Radical Maoist-inspired communist regime- Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK)

Overthrew the prince of Cambodia in 1960s

Victory was its take over the city in 1975

Devastating bomb threats by US following Vietnam invasion

Resulted in 150,000 dead civilians

Ordered most in the city to abandon home & possessions & go to the countryside.

Private possessions and property were taken and kept under state ownership

Eliminated currency, communal work, & dining

Pol Pot (1925-1998)

Ruled "Democratic Kampucha" (1976-1979) as dictator of Communist regime

Inspiration from Russian Revolution & rise of Soviet Union during studies at Paris on Marxism.

Worked in rural areas of Cambodia in which he sympathized with peasants.

Khmer Rouge

Moral order of respect, honor, and obey of social superiors

Extremely hierarchical

Only loyalty was to the government-- "Ang Kar"

"Bending down" to social order imposed by social superior

They can be both verbally, or not, expressed

Face: Reflects one's place in social order. Predicated on the extent to which others respect, honor, & obey

Shield: Lurking in the background of any public interaction. Usu. From fear of exposure and shame

Forced to march to rural parts (farms)

Work in farms or irrigation systems for the collectivized farms

Those unable to keep up, such as kids and elderly were executed

1.5 million died during the Cambodia Genocide

Khmer Rouge System

Undermined bonds between parents and child

Linguistic changes

Forced separations

Difficult work schedules

Children's groups

Communalization

Antifamily propaganda

Encouraged to report parents/family/neighbors as "traitors" or "enemy" of the revolution

Indoctrination of "Cutting off one's feelings/heart"

"Killing Fields"

Executions had very bureaucratic system in place

Honor favored the "poor, rural 'old people,' and the young"

Opposition: the rich, the urban, the elder w/in these spaces

Killed with makeshift weapons (sharpen bamboos), axes... bullets cannot be wasted.

Smashing skulls into trees or hard surface

19,000 mass graves uncovered, more to be found

"To generate genocidal behaviors, sociopolitical changes must be accompanied by a violent ideology" (167).

Discussion Post: How does the documentary relate to the Cambodian Genocide reading, "Why Did You Kill"?

Reading-Lecture Prompt 2

Based on the South African Reconciliation, Rwanda & Cambodia genocide articles, what made Apartheid & Genocide possible? In other words, what drove complicity?

ZineFinalProject.pdf

GHR-CambodiaGenocideWeek6.pptx

zineprompt.pdf

ZineFinalProject.pdf

GHR-CambodiaGenocideWeek6.pptx

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