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Contemp. black America/"The Hate U give" EKSAMEN
(Forløbet er forlænget på grund af vikar i januar samt grammatik-og skriveøvelser)
This topic deals with the novel "The Hate U give" and contemporary black America.
The novel deals with sixteen-year-old Starr who lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed. However, she decides to take action in a very unequal fight for blacks rights and justice for blacks in the US.
Main focus: setting, Starr's development, relationships, code switching, systematic racism and police brutality.
The topic takes its starting point in a short introduction to the end of the Civil War, Jim Crow laws and lynchings in the 50s and 60s.
Through the novel, the film adaption of the film, non-fiction texts, song lyrics, a short film, a timeline of police brutality and a speech excerpt, the topic introduces a contemporary America which is still at large very racist, not least in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. Where does this structural racism and police brutality come from and how does it affect the black minority in contemporary US? These are some of the questions the topic has shed a light on and tried to answer/discuss.
Material:
(Kernestof)
Background:
"Black Voices", Bianca Ehrlich Møller og Mathilde Thomsen, Gyldendal, 2016:
Introduction to post-Civil War and Jim Crow, page 60-63
Introduction to contemporary Black America (politics, education, income, crime), page 140-144
Novel:
"The Hate U give", Angie Thomas, Walker Books, 2017
Film:
"The Hate U give", George Tillman Jr., 2018
Song: "I'm not racist", Joyner Lucas, 2017
Short film: "Two Distant Strangers", Netflix, 2021
(Supplerende stof):
Song: "Fresh Prince of Bel Air", DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, 1990
Speech:
Martin Luther King: "The Other America", 1967
(excerpt: 22.56-25.39, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOWDtDUKz-U)
Poem:
Tupac: The Rose that grew from concrete", 1999
Interview:
Angie Thomas: On the inspiration behind the book", 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CorQppCdxEI
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Omfang:
Tekster: ca. 450 sider
Film: omregnet til cirka 70 sider
Viden og Medier er anvendt løbende gennem forløbet med inddragelse og analyse af film og kortfilm.
Elektroniske hjælpemidler:
• https://www.ordbogen.com/da/
• Minlæring: https://minlaering.dk
/minlæring "Do it write": https://app.minlaering.dk/bog/44
• Collins online dictionary: https://www.collinsdictionary.com
• Longman online dictionary: https://www.ldoceonline.com/
• Webster online dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/
• Cambridge online dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
• Oxford Advanced Learner’s dictionary: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
• Thesaurus online: https://www.thesaurus.com/
• Wordreference https://www.wordreference.com/ (kun ordbogsdelen)
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