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The African-American Experience EKSAMENS EMNE
Topic: THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
This topic will explore Black History in The United States, introducing key participants and events for historical and social background information, putting modern African-American reality into perspective with a focus on identity and lived experience in a greater social sphere.
The following genres will be represented: academic article, speech, documentary, short story and rap/poetry.
Key historical terms:
Frederick Douglass, Abolitionists, The Civil Rights Movement, The Confederacy, Abraham Lincoln, Plessy v. Ferguson, Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes, the 13th Amendment, the 15th Amendment, The Montgomery Boycott, Rosa Parks, The Negro Motorist Green Book, Freedom Rides, The NAACP, Brown v. The Board of Education, The March on Washington, The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Key analytical terms:
ethnolect, sociolect, dialect, cultural marker, flashback, flash-forward, characterization, backstory, setting, simile, personification, message, theme, linguistic analysis, rhetorical analysis, imagery, metaphor, alliteration, internal rhyme, sender, recipient, topic, situation, intent, allusion, anaphora, historical reference, sociolect, high style, low style, logos, pathos, ethos, semantic field
Ca. antal sider: 32 n.s.
Primary Material:
Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream." (1963)
C.J. Hunt (director). The Neutral Ground. ITVS, 2021. (Documentary) + foredrag af Mads Daugbjerg (see Secondary Material).
From Worlds of English, 2010:
-Barack Obama. "A More Perfect Union." (2008)
-Langston Hughes. "Tales of Simple: Temptation". 1965.
-Barack Obama. "2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address”. (2004)
From: Rikke Siersbæk, "Youth Cultures in the USA". Systime, 2007.
-Jay-Z, "Hard Knock Life", p. 172 from Jay-Z, "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)". Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life. Strada Music, 1998.
Tupac Shakur. "Ghetto Gospel". (kopi)
Grand Master Flash and the Furious 5. "The Message". (kopi)
Emma Tucker and Ryan Young. “‘The day of justice has come’: 2 Black men tortured by 6 White law enforcement officers speak before sentencing hearing”. CNN. 18 March 2024. Viewed 7 April 2025. <https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/18/us/mississippi-goon-squad-victims-monday-police-sentencing/index.html>.
Secondary material:
The Rhetorical Pentagram (PDF)
Mads Daugbjerg. "Kampen om historien – Den Amerikanske Borgerkrigs ekko i USA's polarisering i dag". (foredrag 9 april 2025)
Various student-found pages on history.com.
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