WEDNESDAY JAN 24th NO CLASS 1PM ONLY
We’ll start The Namesake film on Monday Jan 29.
Tues Thurs Classes will meet tomorrow as usual.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Assimilation, The Namesake, "Brave We Are" and "Two Kinds"
An article about what it means to be American:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/books/review/amy-chua-political-tribes.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below
An Article about saying no to assimilation:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/29/us/a-fervent-no-to-assimilation-in-new-america.html
More on assimilation:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/education/edlife/international-students-find-the-american-dream-in-flint.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com&_r=0
http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/on-assimilationists-and-nativists/
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/education/edlife/international-students-find-the-american-dream-in-flint.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com&_r=0
http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/the-great-assimilation-debate/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/douthat-when-the-assimilation-of-immigrants-stalls.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/07/garden/l-benefits-of-assimilation-229202.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/15immig.html?pagewanted=all
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/right-there-in-black-and-white-identity-assimilation-and-the-resume/?_r=0
Clink on this link for articles about food and culture:
https://www.google.com/#q=cultural+importance+of+food
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/books/review/amy-chua-political-tribes.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below
An Article about saying no to assimilation:
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/29/us/a-fervent-no-to-assimilation-in-new-america.html
More on assimilation:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/education/edlife/international-students-find-the-american-dream-in-flint.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com&_r=0
http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/on-assimilationists-and-nativists/
Article about choosing names for children born in America to new Americans:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/for-muslim-americans-baby-aidan-or-baby-muhammad.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com&_r=0
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/opinion/sunday/for-muslim-americans-baby-aidan-or-baby-muhammad.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=http://m.facebook.com&_r=0
http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/the-great-assimilation-debate/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/douthat-when-the-assimilation-of-immigrants-stalls.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/07/garden/l-benefits-of-assimilation-229202.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/us/15immig.html?pagewanted=all
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/right-there-in-black-and-white-identity-assimilation-and-the-resume/?_r=0
Clink on this link for articles about food and culture:
https://www.google.com/#q=cultural+importance+of+food
These links would help with the issues in "Two Kinds" also:
Here is a link that talks about assimilation into American/other cultures.
http://m.nydailynews.com/life-style/children-tiger-moms-european-american-moms-differ-article-1.1798300
Here is a link that talks about assimilation into American/other cultures.
http://m.nydailynews.com/life-style/children-tiger-moms-european-american-moms-differ-article-1.1798300
http://www.asian-nation.org/assimilation.shtml
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2673184?uid=3739808&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104040633247
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/edu/89/3/433/
http://jbd.sagepub.com/content/29/6/505.short
Interview with Amy Tan (author of "Two Kinds")
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2673184?uid=3739808&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21104040633247
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/edu/89/3/433/
http://jbd.sagepub.com/content/29/6/505.short
Interview with Amy Tan (author of "Two Kinds")
Here is a link to the PBS website that discusses “New Americans”:
Here is a link that is specific to people living in new Jersey:
Here is an article entitled: “Why They Won’t Assimilate”:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/05/why_they_wont_assimilate.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/05/why_they_wont_assimilate.html
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President Obama’s speech about in which he discusses the American dream and what it means to us today.
Monday, January 8, 2018
"Mrs. Turner's Lawn Jockeys" "Sonny's Blues" and Identity
We will discuss identity and how we become who we are in "Mrs. Turner's Lawn Jockeys"and Stand By Me. We will see different characters and explore how they constructed their identity. Setting also plays a major role in these stories. We will look at how that effects these characters as well.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/identity
Identity and choice:
http://gawker.com/how-i-identify-is-not-your-choice-1741671073
Link about identity and where you are from:
http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2015/10/what-youre-really-asking-when-you-ask-where-are-you-from/411688/
Outside sources for Baldwin:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/26406/summary
The Bible and "Sonny's Blues"
https://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=fcas_fp

Baldwin sources:
http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=fgv
http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Baldwin.htm
Harlem:
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/politics-policy-people/sociology/brief-history-harlem
http://flippedtips.com/plegal/critical/bellwq1.html
http://www.harlemheritage.com/history-of-harlem/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chin-jou/the-jim-crow-north-new-york-civil-rights_b_5613150.html
https://medium.com/world-literature/surviving-and-suffering-ed3c3a94bc94
https://books.google.com/books?id=JV6PuXJu9aAC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=harlem+in+the+1950s+race+sonny%27s+blues&source=bl&ots=CbJFyelCq3&sig=Ry36qX8iDQDaxGHTTPXskr0D39A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5gOTu15HZAhVBj1kKHQ3vBbs4FBDoAQgoMAA#v=onepage&q=harlem%20in%20the%201950s%20race%20sonny's%20blues&f=false
Harlem Renaissance:
http://www.ushistory.org/us/46e.asp
http://www.history.com/topics/harlem-renaissance
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=62700&AuthorID=25279


Below is the Bible scripture that Baldwin refers to:
“The cup of trembling”
22
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
23
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went o
This link below has a wide variety of articles on how we construct identity.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/identity
Identity and choice:
http://gawker.com/how-i-identify-is-not-your-choice-1741671073
History of Lawn Jockeys
Black face
Link about identity and where you are from:
http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2015/10/what-youre-really-asking-when-you-ask-where-are-you-from/411688/
Outside sources for Baldwin:
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/26406/summary
The Bible and "Sonny's Blues"
https://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=fcas_fp
Baldwin sources:
http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=fgv
http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Baldwin.htm
Harlem:
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/society/politics-policy-people/sociology/brief-history-harlem
http://flippedtips.com/plegal/critical/bellwq1.html
http://www.harlemheritage.com/history-of-harlem/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/chin-jou/the-jim-crow-north-new-york-civil-rights_b_5613150.html
https://medium.com/world-literature/surviving-and-suffering-ed3c3a94bc94
https://books.google.com/books?id=JV6PuXJu9aAC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=harlem+in+the+1950s+race+sonny%27s+blues&source=bl&ots=CbJFyelCq3&sig=Ry36qX8iDQDaxGHTTPXskr0D39A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi5gOTu15HZAhVBj1kKHQ3vBbs4FBDoAQgoMAA#v=onepage&q=harlem%20in%20the%201950s%20race%20sonny's%20blues&f=false
Harlem Renaissance:
http://www.ushistory.org/us/46e.asp
http://www.history.com/topics/harlem-renaissance
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=62700&AuthorID=25279

Below is the Bible scripture that Baldwin refers to:
“The cup of trembling”
22
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:
23
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went o
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