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Fiction (Poetry and Prose)
Fiction (Poetry and Prose)
- Zora Neale Hurston's Colorstruck (play, full text)
- Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry (novel, full text)
- Nella Larson's Passing (novel, full text)
- Nikki Giovanni "Dreams"
Children's book by N'tozake Shange: Whitewash
Informational Texts
Informational Texts
- "20 'Light Skin' and 'Dark Skin' References in Rap Lyrics (Vibe Magazine)
- "100 Colorism Questions: Take Discussion to the Next Level" (Colorism Healing)
- "Colorism vs. Racism" (Colorism Healing)
- "The Difference Between Racism and Colorism" (Time Magazine)
- "Dear Black People…Dark Skinned Women Are Not Your Last Resort. Dear White People writers, THIS AIN’T OKAY." (Huffington Post)
- "On Beauty: Banning Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye" (PEN America: The Freedom to Write)
- "How an Experiment with Dolls Helped Lead to School Integration" (NY Times)
- "The Legacy of Colorism Reflects Wounds of Racism That Are More Than Skin-Deep" (The Washington Post)
Redbones and Earth Mothers.pdfRicoeur’s hermeneutics of identity and self.pdfNotSoFastDickAndJane.pdfMeditationAndArtistry--TBE and TEWWG.pdfLatinx Colorism.pdfChildAbuseInTBE.pdfAfricanFemaleSubjectivity-PostcolonialReadingTBE.pdfI'm No Jezebel.pdfMedia (Music, Film, & Television)
Media (Music, Film, & Television)
- Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize Lecture
- Colorism (various videos and PSAs)
- "Imitation of Life" (1934, Black and White, Run time: 111 minutes)
- "Ouanga" (1936, Black and White, Run time: 56 minutes)
- "Imitation of Life" (1954, Color, Run time: 125 minutes)
- "Pinky" (1949, Black and White, Run time: 102 minutes)
- "Cabin in the Sky" (1943, Black and White, Run time: 98 minutes)
- "Carmen Jones" (1954, Color, Run time: 105 minutes)
- Shuffle Along (1921, Noble Sissel and & Eubie Blake)
Tools for Teaching About Abuse in the Classroom
Tools for Teaching About Abuse in the Classroom
Websites
Websites
- The Toni Morrison Society
- http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/morrison.html
- https://www.varsitytutors.com/englishteacher/bluest-eye-lesson-plans (Vocabulary and Study Guides)
- http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/bluesteye/
- PBS American Experience Banned: The Bluest Eye (Interview with Shekema Silveri)
- Sandy Alexandre. 21L.504J Race and Identity in American Literature: Keepin' it Real Fake. Spring 2007. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. (OER Commons)
- Ferris State University Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Worksheets and Handouts
Worksheets and Handouts
AuthorStudyWorksheet.pdfDialectical Journal Instructions.pdfReport abuse