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James Baldwin
Through reporting and essays, James Baldwin was a key voice of the Civil Rights Movement. With keen observations, blunt but effective prose describing the roots and branches of white supremacy and white complicity, Baldwin’s writing conveyed something of what it was like to be black in a segregated nation. His The Fire Next Time held white America accountable Read More …
What Folks Need to Learn
In the years before he became Virginia’s governor, Ralph Northam apparently chose not to read books in which blackface was present. “I used just a little bit of shoe polish to put under my—or on my—cheeks,” he said about the day he impersonated Michael Jackson in blackface. “I look back now and regret that I did not Read More …
Protected: Hard at Work!
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Yoshino – MLA Works Cited Elements
Here’s the information you need to construct the Works Cited entry for the Yoshino article. I gathered it all from the pdf we’re using. Use The Little Seagull entry on “Work in an Anthology” (pp. 144-146) to write a properly formatted entry. Article title: “Preface” and “The New Civil Rights” Anthology (book) title: Emerging: Contemporary Read More …
The Marriage of Rock and Hip Hop?
We like to tell ourselves stories of interracial cooperation, in part to convince ourselves that things are better now. But our signature stories are often myths. Get the lowdown on the Run-DMC/Aerosmith version of “Walk This Way, the song that introduced hip hop to rock audiences. The comic video is below.
Reflection – Reading Process
Please read the entire post before responding. Write a reflective essay that assesses your current reading process by comparing what strategies you have actually used so far this semester to make sense of the readings to the standards set out in the Active Reading Learning Outcome below. To what degree does your reading process enable Read More …
