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5. Gone with the Wind The Invisibility ofRacism in Americ.docxalinainglis
5. "Gone with the Wind": The Invisibility of
Racism in American History Textbooks
When was the country we now know as the United States first settled? Ifwe forget the lesson of the last chapter for the moment—that Native
Americans settled—the best answer might be 1526. In the summer of that year,
five hundred Spaniards and one hundred black slaves founded a town neat the
mouth of the Pee Dee River in present-day South Carolina. Disease and disputes
with nearby Indians caused many deaths in the early months of the settlement.
In November the slaves rebelled, killed some of their masters, and escaped to
the Indians, By then only 150 Spaniards survived; they retreated to Haiti. The
ex-slaves remained behind and probably merged with nearby Indian nations.5
This is cocktail-party trivia, I suppose. American history textbooks cannot
be faulted for not mentioning that the first non-Native settlers in the United
States were black. Educationally, however, the incident has its uses. It shows that
Africans (is it too early to call them African Americans?) rebelled against slavery
from the first. It points to the important subject of three-way race relations—
Indian-African-European—which most textbooks completely omit. It teaches
that slavery cannot readily survive without secure borders. And, symbolically, it
illusttates that African Americans, and the attendant subject of black-white race
relations, were part of American history from the first European attempts to
settle.
Perhaps the most pervasive theme in our history is the domination of
black America by white America. Race is the sharpest and deepest division in
American life. Issues of black-white relations propelled the Whig Party to col-
lapse, prompted the formation of the Republican Party, and caused the Democ-
ratic Party to label itself the "white man's party" for almost a century. The first
time Congress ever overrode a presidential veto was for the 1866 Civil Rights
Act, passed by Republicans over the wishes of Andrew Johnson. Senators
mounted the longest filibuster in U.S. history, more than 534 hours, to oppose
the 1964 Civil Rights bill. Thomas Byrne Edsall has shown how race prompted
the sweeping political realignment of 1964-72, in which the white South went
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from a Democratic bastion to a Republican stronghold.6 Race still affects poli-
tics, as evidenced by the notorious Willie Horton commercial used by George
Bush in the 1988 presidential campaign and the more recent candidacies of the
Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, Race riots continue to shake urban centers
from Miami to Los Angeles.
Almost no genre of our popular culture goes untouched by race. From the
1850s through the 1930s, except during the Civil War and Reconstruction,
minstrel shows, which derived in a perverse way from plantation slavery, were
the dominant form of popular entertainment in America. During most of that
period Uncle Tom's Cabin was our longest-running play, mounted in thousands of
productions. Am.
“Color Struck”: Racial Mimicry as the Root Jeremy Borgia
Zora Neale Hurston, born in 1891, has emerged as an iconic author in the fields of African-American and feminist literature; most famous for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston wrote a number of novels, plays, and short stories. Writing from the 1920s to the 1950s, Hurston’s work is predominantly positioned in the era of the Harlem Renaissance, which ended around the time of the Great Depression. She was an influential voice during this time period, working and arguing both with and alongside the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois and Alain Locke, each of whom had a disparate view of the role of art and literature in the movement for black American equality. Locke rejected “propaganda and ‘racial rhetoric’ for the most part as
obstacles to literary excellence and universal acceptance” (Classon 8), while Du Bois proclaimed, “I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda’’ (Du Bois 22). Hurston, however, was
suspicious of her contemporaries’ rhetoric, recognizing the superficial division between these two views. Both men endeavored to artificially bolster the black race by “proving” their merit to white America through literature—propagandistic or not; Hurston, however, was troubled by the notion that black society was being defined against “whiteness” in culture and literature. Indeed, her works demonstrate a criticism of these black leaders: that in their quest for equality, equality was confused with mimicking whiteness. In other words, the movement for equality became lost in the quest for sameness.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
Normal labor is also termed spontaneous labor, defined as the natural physiological process through which the fetus, placenta, and membranes are expelled from the uterus through the birth canal at term (37 to 42 weeks
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11. I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.
12. HARLEM by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?