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Black American Voices (EXAM TOPIC)
In this topic, we have focused on the history of Black Americans, from the time of slavery.
Keywords are slavery, systemic racism, the thirteenth and fourteenth amendment to the constitution, Jim Crow laws, segregation.
We have worke with a variety of genres: Non-fiction texts, a song, a movie, a documentary, a TED-talk.
Texts:
"How to raise a black son in America", TEDtalk by Clint Smith (March 2015)
"Twelve Years a Slave", excerpt from memoir by Solomon Northup (1853)
"Amend: The Fight for America", Episode 1 (2021) (a Netflix series, but we watched it on YouTube).
Harriet Tubman material (sæt flere detaljer på)
"Merry-Go-Round" (poem by Langston Hughes)
"Letter to the Free" (song by Common, 2016)
"Green Book" (movie by Peter Farelly, 2018)
Gruppearbejde hvor hver gruppe har arbejdet med forskellige emner, og delt deres arbejde i matrixgrupper efterfølgende. Emnerne var:
1. The Reconstruction period, Jim Crow laws, minstrel shows
2. Lynchings, Ku Klux Klan, ”Strange Fruit”
3. Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, peaceful protest
4. Rosa Parks, Brown vs. Board of Education, The Selma to Montgomery Marches, The sit-ins
5. Malcolm X, The Black Panthers, non-peaceful protest
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