The document discusses the parallels between characters in Marvel Comics' X-Men and leaders of the American civil rights movement. Professor X represents Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants, while Magneto reflects Malcolm X's willingness to use force to defend mutant rights. The struggles of the X-Men to gain acceptance have resonated with other marginalized groups fighting for equality.

1. Watch the video and check the sentences you listen.
( ) Otherwise, awareness, and identification of different ways of racism has made blacks become more aware to this kind
of violence, because racism is a kind of violence.
( ) Thus, the question arises: How to behave when facing these situations of racism, an aggressive stance saying fire all
the racists or a response of non-violence and awareness.
( ) These stories—all co-creations of Marvel Comics Stan Lee, who died on November 12, 2018 at 95—
were swashbuckling adventures with a human bent. The characters weren’t all powerful; they felt pain,
anguish, regret; they won, but also lost. And many of them were informed by the Civil Rights struggles of
the 1960s
( ) That metaphor extended to the characters themselves, with Professor X and his vision of harmonious
human-mutant coexistence standing in for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., On the Other hand
Magneto’s rigid attitude toward the defense of mutantkind reflected the philosophy of Malcolm
X, Malcolm X was a prominent human rights activist who rose to fame as the Nation of Islam’s chief spokesperson.
( ) Magneto personifying the ideals of Malcolm X and his push for fighting fire with fire to achieve equality. . The
Sentinels, a brand of massive mutant-hunting robot, were introduced two years later as readers watched on
TV as black Americans were beaten and abused by white police officers. His harsh methods were indicative of
the harsh reality that most African Americans faced during those times, and often clashed with the more peaceful
perspective of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and hence “there's kind of an undeniable set of allegories that are going
on there,” says Sean Howe, author of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story.
( ) The X-Men’s struggles in a world defined by systemic persecution has been proved malleable enough to
outlast the civil rights era. Beginning in the 1980s and continuing through today, Indeed, the X-Men have
adopted by those fighting for LGBTQ rights who see the mutants’ struggle for acceptance and equality as
their own.
( ) In 1966, Lee and his X-Men collaborator “King” Kirby again engaged with racial equality when they
created Black Panther, a black superhero who was also the king of the fictional African nation Wakanda, an
Afrofuturist wonderland of high-tech exceptionalism.
( ) Martin Luther King and Malcolm X used opposing principles to achieve equality for blacks. Martin Luther King Jr. was
the leader of peaceful protests and nonviolence for the segregation among blacks and whites UNLIKE Malcolm X wanted to
gain justice through any possible way even if it required violence.
( ) If we think about it today, racism is still alive despite the struggle of groups organized by Martin Luther King,
Malcom X and leaders of the black movement in Brazil
( ) Bell Hooks tries to show us how we are taught since our childhood to have mistaken and false assumptions about
love, therefore, highlights how our society does not consider the importance and necessity of learning how to love
properly
BEATLES – Blackbird
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
Blackbird fly Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

2. 1) A letra da música Blackbird dos Beatles é uma crítica ao movimento social racista que assolou os estados
unidos e os direitos civis daquele povo afro americano. Paul escreveu essa letra e compôs a canção enquanto
ouvia o estado do Arkansas aprovar a igualdade racial em suas escolas. Paul metaforicamente cita na letra
que o homem tem que: “…não só protestar, mas brigar pelos seus direitos, perseverando e mostrando que o
negro também tem seu lugar na sociedade…” Qual fragmento abaixo melhor representa essa afirmação?
A) “..All your life”
B) “..Blackbird fly Blackbird fly”
C) “..Into the light of the dark black night”
D) “..Blackbird singing in the dead of night”
E) “..Take these broken wings and learn to fly”
2) The scenario experienced by the black population, in the south of the United States 1950, to the years of social
communication. They were like Martin Luther King and objectified as an exponent
We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is fallible. We refuse to believe that there are enough resources of opportunity
in this nation. So we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us the right to be claimed as the riches of freedom
and the security of justice.
a) the conquest of civil rights for the black population.
b) support for violent acts sponsored by blacks in urban spaces.
c) the supremacy of religious institutions among the southern black community.
d) the incorporation of blacks into the labor market.
e) the acceptance of black culture as representative of the American way of life.
3) The struggles for civil rights in the United States in the 1960s (20th century) had, among their central
characteristics, the
a) absence of women and maintenance of the patriarchal character of North American society.
b) defense of the interests of large industrial corporations and questioning of labor legislation.
c) union between the environmentalist and gay movements and the choice of the rainbow as a common symbol of these
two groups.
d) proposal for peaceful solutions to the internal American conflicts and the insistence on a bellicose international policy.
e) mobilization of North American blacks in the search for the expansion of their rights and for the end of segregationist
racial laws
4) In: Two characters — on opposing sides of a coin — undisputably allude to Martin Luther King Jr. and
Malcolm X. Professor Xavier parallels the former peace-keeper and activist, while the latter is designed to emulate
the man more willing to use physical force to make a statement. The idea is constructed around which of the
following rhetorical strategies?
A. analysis B. definition C. narration D. metaphor E. cause and effect