Political Economy and Social Change: From Colonization to Globalization
Lecture & Guest Resources
Technology, the New Agrarian Question, and Growing Resistance
Technology Lecture Photos
Global Trends 2015
Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order
Immigration Maps
1500-1814 & Key
1815-1914 & Key
1919-1939 & Key
1945-1980 & Key
1990 & Key
Immigration to the US
Immigration Lecture 11/29/05
The African-American Migration Experience
Social Change Films from 11/16/05
Urbanization/Proletarianization Lecture 11/15/05
Luis Rodriguez
Fascism Lecture 11/09/05
Racism Lecture 10/13/05
Films on Racism 10/13/05
Coming to Terms Lecture 12/06/05
Past Maps, Graphics & From "The Harper's Index"
Portion of its currency reserves that Venezuela says it transferred from U.S. banks to Swiss banks last fall: 2/3
Percentage of all music on Venezuelan radio that must be homegrown, according to a new law: 50
Percentage of the homegrown music that must also be “traditional”: 50
Number of U.S. prisoners serving life sentences with no parole for crimes they committed while juveniles: 2,225
Number of prisoners serving such sentences in all other countries worldwide: 12
Arizona Migrant Deaths, Water Stations, Rescue Beacons FY 2000-2004
Number of homeless San Franciscans hired to be extras in a movie with Will Smith as a formerly homeless millionaire: 250
Amount they were paid hourly: $8.62
Average hourly wage made by drug-dealing foot soldiers in Chicago, according to a Columbia University study: $3.41
Amount a foot soldier’s family is paid if he is killed: $5,000
USA Capital Punishment Graphic from AFP
Avian Flu Graphic from AFP
Number of Cuba’s fourteen provinces that were directly hit by a Category 4 hurricane in July: 12
Number of people that the Cuban government successfully evacuated to safety: 1,535,000
Chances that one of the 126 Wal-Marts shut down by Hurricane Katrina reopened within ten days: 9 in 10
Days after Katrina hit that the first strip club was reopened in New Orleans: 20
Percentage change since 1995 in the U.S. trade deficit with China, as a percentage of U.S. GDP: +202
Percentage change with all other countries: +147 |