African American History Through Literature
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Works Cited/Annotated Bibliography
Article Summary: Cherokee Nation's Freedmen Controversy
Article Summary: Red vs. Black
Arkansas
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Works Cited/Annotated Bibliography
Article Summary: Arkansas, the Civil War, and Slaves
Article Summary: A Review of Slaves in Texas
The Marrow of Tradition
Article Summary: The Press and Lynchings of Black African Americans
Reading Response: Response to the Race Riot
Reading Response: The Marrow of Tradition
Reading Response: Before the Riots
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Black Towns
Sundown Towns
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Final Project: Crystal Eckles and Lucy Ray
Article Summary: Cruelty in Paragould
Article Summary: Does My Town Have a Racist Past?
Reader Response: Janie's Voice
Reader Response: A Search For Love and Self
Reader Response: Prodigal Daughters
Reader Response: The Thorns of Thralldom and A Bloom of Dissent
Reader Response: Violence and Janie
Passing
Passing Project
Video: Marring the Mainstream
Article Summary: A Beautiful Lie
Article Summary: "Passing As Black: Racial Identity Work Among Biracial Americans."
Article Summary: “Not Entirely Strange, But Not Entirely Friendly Either: Images of Jews in African American Passing Novels Through the Harlem Renaissance.”
Article Summary: "A Modern Cinderella"
Article Summary: Passing
Reading Response: Passing
Reading Response: Relationships Within
Reading Response: A Search For Love and Self
Native Son
Additional Biographical Links
Video: Marring the Mainstream
Article Summary: “The Loeb and Leopold Case”
Article Summary: The Function of Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son
Article Summary: Native Son: Lightness and Darkness in Native Son
Reader Response: Black Scare
Reading Response: To be Lynched or Not to be Lynched
Reader Response: Being Bigger
Untitled
Reader Response: Bessie
Reader Response: The Animal in the Room with You is You
Reading Response: Bigger
Invisible Man
Additional Biographical Links
Article Summary: A Deadly Secret Exposed
Reader Response: Black Scare
Caucasia