some more links on related info

 Essay on American Sniper: http://www.salon.com/2015/02/01/i_was_an_american_sniper_and_chris_kyle%E2%80%99s_war_was_not_my_war/

on Iraq war : 
http://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/the-iraq-war-in-the-new-yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/02/03/making-a-case

Ihab Hassan and the postmodern, matrix, etc (see Power Point III poem)
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-173466713/neo-s-kantian-choice-the-matrix-reloaded-and-the

links and info for reading Tocqueville

Review of Tocqueville:  http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2010-fall/selections/despite-my-bunkered-heart-khaled-mattawas-tocqueville/

Info on Tocqueville the history/writer and Mattawa’s Book

(you can click on or copy/paste these links to get more info on some ideas from which Mattawa draws ideas for Tocqueville… you might also google some of the sources from the notes section of the book –p68/69—for more info and insight… nonetheless, one doesn’t need background knowledge necessarily if one is also willing to read and interpret the poems on their own terms; whatever a reader brings to the text, in terms of personal knowledge, and interest in reading from another perspective, will do… and however far you want to go into research in other areas is up to you…)

Online access to whole text: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/DETOC/toc_indx.html

http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/users/f/felwell/www/Theorists/Tocqueville/Presentation/Tocqueville.pdf

http://www.history.com/topics/alexis-de-tocqueville

http://sociology.about.com/od/Works/a/Democracy-in-America.htm

http://www.soc.iastate.edu/sapp/soc506Tocqueville.pdf

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~grjan/libertyequality.html

http://www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=202

http://www.tocqueville.c-span.nsatc.net/chap1.htm

http://www.tocqueville.c-span.nsatc.net/

French Revolution: http://www.history.com/topics/french-revolution

Tocqueville and Algeria: http://chenry.webhost.utexas.edu/civil/resources/PittsAPSA.htm

on Langston Hughes

some additional info:

http://www.openculture.com/2014/02/hear-langston-hughes-read-two-poems-from-the-weary-blues.html

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/langston-hughes

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/langston-hughes

http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cKDOGhghMU

Behind the poems

Some info on Reginald Shepherd:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/reginald-shepherd

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