Wednesday, January 24, 2018

WEDNESDAY JAN 24th NO CLASS 1PM

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.

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&region=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/2015/11/01/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

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 to the PBS website that discusses “New Americans”:


Here is a link that is specific to people living in new Jersey:


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.

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



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Below is the Bible scripture that Baldwin refers to:
“The cup of trembling”
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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:
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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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