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From slavery to #BlackLivesMatter - EXAM
From Slavery to #Blacklivesmatter"
Description:
The year 2019 marked 400 years since the first enslaved Africans were brought to what would become the colony of Virginia. Today, the echoes of racial slavery continue to shape the structures and dominant discourses of America. This course will focus on past and present forms of racial discrimination and likewise resistance from the era of abolitionists’ anti-slavery, the anti-lynching, the Civil Rights movement to the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement.
Materials
SLAVERY: James Hunt: The Negro’s place in Nature. Pp. 53-57*** (article)
SEPARATE BUT EQUAL (JIM CROW LAWS): Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit. Written by Abel Meeropol in 1939). (video and lyrics) **
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet pp. 125-128 (excerpts from speech)***
POST-RACIST AMERICA?
- Angie Thomas: The Hate U Give. 2017 (chapter 1 from the novel)-
George Tillman Jr.: The Hate U Give . 2018 (film)
- Clips from 13th (Netflix documentary about the 13th amendment ) by director Ava Duvernay
Extra Materials:
•Literacy Test (State of Louisiana, 1960s)
keywords and terminology:
•The transatlantic slave trade (app.10-11 million survived), the auction block, race, racial, slave codes, illiteracy, negro, Afro-American, The Civil War (1861-65), abolitionism, industrialized northern states versus The Cotton Kingdom (Southernmost states depended on slaves as work force), Emancipation proclamation (1865) - abolition of slavery,
•Discrimination, racism, slavery, supremacy, superior-inferior, Jim Crow, lynching (killing someone before a legal trial), segregation, 1960s Civil Rights movement, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King (non-violence), Black Panther Party (militant party against racism and capitalism), (Malcolm X), systemic racism (education, income, police racism, politics), Black Lives Matter, “I can’t breathe” – Eric Garner and George Floyd
***Kilde: Erlich-Møller & Thomsen: Black Voices. Gyldendal, 2016.
Løbende har der været gruppeoplæg om følgende emner: slavery, Jim Crow Laws and "Separate but equal" doctrine, Ku Klux Klan, Rosa Parks, NAAACP and the Montgomery Bus Boycott + Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Nation of Islam, Black Panther Party , Black Lives Matter, African-Americans in the US today (education and income, crime, police brutality, Juneteenth)
Kompetencer ift. lærerplanen
- analysere og perspektivere aktuelle forhold i engelsksprogede regioner på baggrund af engelskfaglig viden om historiske, kulturelle og samfundsmæssige forhold i Storbritannien og USA
- tekstanalytiske begreber og metoder til analyse af fiktive og ikke-fiktive tekster
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