Author: Eric Drown
Protected: The Blackness Project
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ENG 123 – Identities Concepts
Identity Personal identity Social identity Appiah Interview Identities are lies that we use to group ourselves and each other Multiple, overlapping identities Community of strangers Yoshino Covering True self/False Self Assimilation Conversation Coates The New People The American Dream/Dreamers/The Other World Racism/Race The Body Fear/Violence Nakedness Masculinity (Black and White) Survival Clash with the Street Read More …
Focused Free Write Activity
Copy the passage word-for-word. Paraphrase it in your own words – at least two different ways Explain it as if to a person who hasn’t read the DL. The context in which the quote makes sense. Explain words or examples you might expect a reader to find hard to understand. Give easier-to-understand examples of your Read More …
Community Agreements
In this unit of the course, we will be exploring an important topic that many people find challenging to discuss, in part because our individual experiences may be considerably different from one anothers’. So, I’d like to start by having us set a few community agreements, or “norms,” to help make the space feel safe Read More …
When Some People are Thought of As Trash
Blurb: “A white lower class not only figured more prominently in the development of the colonies and the young country than national lore suggests, but was spoken of from the start explicitly in terms of waste and refuse. Read reader letters reacting to the article here.
NPR Interview with Coates
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