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Course Texts for Great Migration Unit
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
1. Link to Ta-Nehisi Coates article in The Atlantic, "The Case for Reparations"
2. Coates discussing his book in 2015 at the Schomburg Center
3. Coates interview PBS Newshour 2015 (7 min)
Ralph Ellison
1. http://mseffie.com/assignments/invisible_man/IM.html
2. Ellison's Record Collection
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James Baldwin:
1. video of Baldwin - The Price of the Ticket (youtube)
2. New Yorker article on Baldwin
3. Baldwin at an event with Dick Gregory (youtube)
4. Baldwin debates William F. Buckley (youtube)
5. interview with Baldwin in the Paris Review
6. bio on Baldwin
The Blues:
1. Radiolab show on The Crossroads (28 min)
2. short news piece on Juke Joints (7:38) http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/chasing-the-blues/
3. another short news piece on Juke Joints (5:05). http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/video/american-snapshot-juke-joints-4598823
4. New York Times interactive site on critically important female blues singers...really cool site: good music, images and the story is great.
5. companion website for Scorsese's Feel Like Going Home
6. great website feature "The Language of the Blues" - the meaning behind common but unclear blues lyrics phrases
The Harlem Renaissance
1. African American Experience database article on the Harlem Renaissance (you may have to login first)
2. Alain Locke - The New Negro
3. Good article on racial uplift from National Humanities Center website (stop at "guiding student discussion")
4. The New Negro Movement article from African American Experience database (you may have to login first)
5. Harlem Riot of 1935 article from African American Experience database (you may have to login first) (we're skipping this for now)
6. Two articles on Rent Parties - primary sources. Here's one written by Frank Byrd from August 1938 and here's an interview Byrd recorded with a woman named Bernice later that fall (of 1938). Click on the original document image on the Bernice interview page - it's cool b/c it's the priginal document. Also, Byrd was working for the Federal Writers Project, so read about that here. These are from African American Experience database (you may have to login first).
7. Fascinating article from the National Humanities Center's teacher resource page (yes, we read stuff like this) on "Pigmentocracy." (stop at "student engagement"). Here's a Fresh Air interview with the author of a 2015 book, Negroland, about growing up a member of the "black elite."
8. New! Library of Congress' page on the Harlem Renaissance.
W.E.B. DuBois
- see his biography in the Great Migration materials below
- The Souls of Black Folk - great book. I've got it in the room if you want to see it. Here is the site, by Bartelby. You are free to read it all. You might find of interest Chapter I: Of Our Spiritual Strivings. Also, he had a lot to say about Booker T. Washington - check out his chapter on that; you might find it interesting.
- check out his picture...a couple years ago KAP students said he and I look identical!
Existentialism
#1. Radiolab episode, "In the Dust of this Planet." Zombies, True Detective, fashion magazines, nihilism, existentialism, and Jay-Z!
#2. On the Media from last week "Confronting the Unknown." Listen to whole thing (which is a really good show) or just scroll down on the page to listen to the last segment, "Staring into the Abyss."
Great Migration texts
The texts below are for you to review this week. We expect you to actively read, take notes, and include insights from these sources in your journals and discussions. In your notes, be sure to identify the key information about the text (who wrote, date, title, etc). Know/use the terms below (note: many of the terms on-line are hyperlinks to definitions). Bring questions and comments to class. Print those below marked with an asterisk (*) and have them in your notebook. Be sure to follow instructions so you are reading the correct articles.
1. African American Experience- go to NAHS library webpage
- login to African American Experience database
- search for “Great Migration” (or try clicking the link to the left, then it may ask you to login) (or, login then type this number in the search box:1407061 )
- actively read the following:
- the overview article (by Donald Scott, his name is at the end. It begins: “The epic "great" migrations of African
Americans to Northern areas and the West from the South during the . . . “ )
- in the left hand pane, check out these related resources:
1a. Reference Articles (print and read at least one of these four articles)*
- Chain migration
- Demographic Patterns of the Great Black Migration
- Domestic Work
- Ku Klux Klan
1b. Biographies (at least one) - either Booker T. Washington or W.E.B. DuBois - take notes on the methods used by the reformer you choose
1c. Primary Sources - read one from each category (read 4); print your choice one of these next 4*
- Political, Government & Court Documents (at least one)
- Cultural Documents (at least one)
- Letters & Narratives (at least one)
- Newspapers & Magazines (at least one)
2. In Motion AAME website and their page specifically on the Great Migration
- images (choose several to examine; read the captions; print one that is most instructive*)
- maps (check out at least 3; note the maps’ names and insights gained)
- texts (choose one from before 1960)
3. The Great Migration (youtube video, 45 minutes). Great video to watch, especially the last 20 minutes. Great interviews with people who actually migrated…hear it in their own words. Write down what stands out to you.
Jim Crow
1. PBS - the Rise and Fall of Jim Crow companion website. Interactive Maps. Click 'go to maps,' then 'Jim Crow laws," choose a category and click on a state.
2. Eric Foner (a well-known U.S. history scholar) explains in this YouTube video that seperate but equal was not about separate and sure as heck wasn't equal (1 min 34 sec).
3. Introduction to the Douglas A. Blackmon book, Slavery by Another Name. Link to excerpt on his website. Or, text below.
4. Slavery by Another Name, a film, produced by PBS and Douglas A. Blackmon, author of the book by the same name (90 minutes).
5. Sharecropping article from Facts on File (login to school account here FIRST) and search "sharecropping," select the article from Encyclopedia of American History: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1856 to 1869, Revised Edition, vol. V.or see text below.
6. Ronald Davis articles: Creating Jim Crow, link or text below. Surviving Jim Crow, link or text below. Racial Etiquette, link or text below.
***remember the three C's. Understand the Jim Crow system (and organize your notes and thinking) as being comprehensive, complex, and contradictory***
Invisible Man Discussion
Document with each group's work
Other "Essential Reading" and "Essential Listening"
1. The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Atlantic. June 2014. Coates on All Things Considered (7 min). Coates on Fresh Air (36 min.)
2. The Making of Ferguson (article) by Richard Rothstein. Fresh Air interview with Rothstein (35 min). Morning Edition interview with Rothstein (5 min).
3. Three Ways to Speak English (TED Talk) by Jamila Lyiscott (5 min).
4. Redlining in Columbus wesite
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Artifacts past years
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Unit Artifacts 2015 #1
A - link to youtube Johnny Cash
B - link to youtube Louis Armstrong
Unit Artifacts 2015 #2
Link to Ta-Nehisi Coates article in The Atlantic, "The Case for Reparations"
Unit Artifacts 2014
An artifact that 2014-2015 kids studied...they did an annotated text "Harlem is Nowhere" by Ralph Ellison, written in 1947
Period 6-7's work here,
Period 8-9's work here.
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