现代大学英语精读2第二版Unit2SayYes.ppt

Unit II Say Yes 1862 Emancipation Proclamation 1963 If I were a black, would you … What shall we do? Five Parts: Part I: Warm-Up Exercises (songs poems) Part II: Background Information (author and “-isms”) Part III: Text Analysis Part IV: Language Appreciation Part V: Supplemented Reading Exercises Warm-up On the Origin of Racism  Enjoy a Song  Enjoy a Poem  （for reference） Make up a Story  I. On the Origin of Racism Debates over the origins of racism often suffer from a lack of _____ over the term. Many mix recent forms of racism with earlier forms of ethnic and national conflict. In most cases ethno-national conflict seems to ____ to conflict over land and strategic resources. In some cases ethnicity and nationalism were ________ to wars between great religious empires (for example, the Muslim Turks and the Catholic Austro-Hungarians). As Benedict Anderson has suggested ethnic ______ and ethno-nationalism became a source of conflict within such empires with the rise of print-capitalism. Listen to the passage and then fill in the blanks. To be continued on the next page. clarity owe harnessed identity I. On the Origin of Racism In its modern form, racism evolved in with European exploration and _______ of much of the rest of the world, and especially after Christopher Columbus reached the Americas. As new peoples were __________, fought, and ultimately subdued, theories about “race” began to develop, and these helped many to ______ the differences in position and treatment of people whom they categorized as belonging to different races. To be continued on the next page. conquest encountered justify I. On the Origin of Racism Another possible source of racism is the misunderstanding of Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution. Some ___ Darwin’s theories to imply that since some “races” were more civilized, there must be a biological _____ for the difference. At the same time they _______ to biological theories of moral and intellectual tr