"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

http://www.loudounhistory.org/history/underground-railroad-jockey-statues.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/16/AR2006091600851.html

http://wavy.com/2014/05/23/black-faced-lawn-jockey-creates-controversy-among-neighbors/

Black face

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/13/arts/music/blackface-master-echoes-in-hiphop.html

http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/minstrl.html

http://globalgrind.com/2013/10/30/reason-why-its-not-ok-to-wear-blackface-list-photos/

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”
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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