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BUILDING OUR KNOWLEDGE BASE

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Then, for every video, take notes in your notebook and write your responses to 1-5 on here.

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Respond to each other and build off of each other with meaningful reflections. Don’t just put “I agree” and restate the ideas they just posted. Instead, only respond if you can add to their perspective.

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We will use this information to gain a better understanding of the texts we’ve read and will read, so keep these notes and make them well thought out as well as organized.

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HOUSING SEGREGATION AND REDLIING IN AMERICA (6:36 mins) [REQUIRED]

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#1A. In your notes, write down new vocabulary terms and jargon. What are specifics words/phrases you plan to incorporate into your discussions now.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 7:11AM) : Redlining effects on Black Americans more

Based off of what I have seen in the video I plan to incorporate specific words/phrases into my discussions. I plan on incorporating the phrase “Redlining”. This is because this specific term plays a big role in why many black Americans in the texts like “Native Son” and “Black Boy” lived in poor homes, had rough neighborhoods, and had bad schools. Redlining started when the Home Owners Loan Corp. was created.This was an act ensuring that low-class Americans were not defaulting on their new mortgages from the National Housing Act (1934). Maps were drawn and they had four specific areas. These areas included green,blue,yellow, and red. If you lived in the red areas this meant that you had “detrimental influences” or that you were “hazardous”.Meaning that you couldn’t pay your mortgages, and most of the people that lived in these areas were either foreign-born, low-class whites, or negroes. Redlining made it difficult to buy homes or refinance. Based on these restrictions and conditions as time went on and “white people [were] moving to new suburbs that [were] popping up all over the country” black people [were] stuck. Not only this but some “covenants” didn’t sell homes to black people and this was legal. So being this fact black Americans didn’t have any chance of moving. The primary way that Americans pay for public schools is by paying property taxes. Meaning the more valuable your house, the better schools that you have. So if you are redlined and your house is not valuable you don’t have good schools, therefore children only have access to little or no education at all. Just like in “Native Son”, Bigger was not able to finish school because he couldn’t pay for it. Which made him resort to doing the only thing that he could do to make money which was stealing. This is also shown in “Black Boy” when the young boy kept getting robbed by the gangsters that stayed on the streets by his house.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 11:02AM) : I plan to use the term redlining as its a new word I've never heard before that was a major issue during the time period.
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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 20 2020 10:53PM) : Word and Phrases I plan on now using in my discussions. [Edited] more

In the discussions I will make will now incoporate the world redlining. Redlining is the parts in town with the people of less income, forgieners and black americans. This word is somethings has been part of most of the conversations that taken part in class but because not many or maybe even none knew about the word and its meaning, now it can be used with underestanding of what it means and because it is really inpactful. For example incases when talking about the novel Native Son because in this novel it can be seen that the white people lived separate fromm the black people and the homes were much better then the ones in the black community and to me that would be a casse where redlining in taking place.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 4:50AM) : Words or Phrases [Edited] more

A phrase that I didn’t know what it meant was “Residential Security Maps.” The “Home Owners Loan Corporation” (HOLC) created the “Residential Security Maps” which is used to classify neighborhoods by their perceived level of lending risk. I plan to use this phrase in my discussion when I talk about the racial housing segregation.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 7:35PM) : redlining [Edited] more

I plan to incorporate specific words/phrases into my discussions such as redlining. This word is new to me and redlining is where people are poor and don’t have a lot. This creates an impact in ¨Native Son” because they were in the situation where they had small homes and a bad area with bad schools. So I plan to use this word because it was a big concern during the time.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 9:57PM) : New Vocab more

The word in which I will be incorporating unto my discussions now is “Redlining and Residential Security maps”.. I have heard these words before but never had a clear meaning or understanding of what it really meant. As of now I know that it has a lot of meaning to the black community and there history in housing. It also has a lot to do with why blacks had such hard times with buy homes because of these two words.

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 10:23PM) : Words and phrases I plan on implementing in my discussions. more

After watching the video, a word I plan on using in my discussions is the term “Redlining”. Redlining is a discriminatory practice in which banks and other insurance companies refuse or limit loans within specific areas. This term is important as it goes to prove why Black people lived in certain conditions and why they were never able to afford a better place to live in with their families.

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Leyla Brown Leyla Brown (Oct 21 2020 4:38PM) : New vocabulary more

After watching the video I will plan on using “redlining” in my vocabulary.I could use it in a political argument explaining systematic racism.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:19PM) : Words or phrases more

I plan to incorporate specific words or phrases such as redlining.Redlining is detremential influences where foreign born people, low class whites, and “negroes” live. I plan to use this word when talking about housing segregation across America.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 3:27PM) : Word/phrases more

I would include redlining because it is something that I hadn’t been fully aware of but I did know about because when I travel to northern Maryland I have seen that in the different neighborhoods where the entrance of the leasing offices would say “older community” and when I looked around there was only people around their 50s and below living their and it was mostly one race that lived in that area.

#2A. What are some topics covered in this video?

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 1:17AM) : Topics more

Redlining, redlining effects in schools,health,family wealth, and policing, Fair Housing Act of 1968

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 11:18AM) : Topics that were covered are racial discrimination, redlining effects on financial situations and schools, Fair housing act of 1968, family wealth, housing effects on health, policing
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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 20 2020 5:03PM) : Topics covered more

There were many topics that were covered in this video like: redlining, policing and the effects of profiling the black South African community, the wealth of the families, housing segregation and the effects that segregation had on the school in the different communities.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 20 2020 10:56PM) : Topics Covered more

Some of the topics covered include housing segregation, racial inequality, redlining, racial discrimination.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 1:40PM) : topic covered more

Some topics were redlining, racial discrimination, housing segregation and racial inequality.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 4:05PM) : Topics covered more

The topics that were covered in this video are Housing Segregation, the different housing segregation in school, wealth, policing, The national housing act of 1934, Home owner loan corporation, Residential security map, redlining, and the Fair housing act of 1968,

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 4:36PM) : Topics covered in the video more

The following topics were covered in the video: Racial discrimination, Home Owner’s Loan Corporation, redlining, and housing.

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Leyla Brown Leyla Brown (Oct 21 2020 4:40PM) : Topics covered more

Some topics covered in this video would be systematic racism, housing segregation, injustice, and redlining.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:22PM) : Topics covered more

Some topics covered include redlining, housing segregation, wealth, schools, health aswell as policing and racial discrimination

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 3:29PM) : Topics Covered more

Some Topics covered in this video are racial discrimination, redlining, racial profiling and housing segregation.

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Alexander Tobar Alexander Tobar (Oct 20 2020 8:30PM) : Topics covered: more

Topics that the video go over are the time period that the national housing act, 1930s, the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC), redlining which was a part of a system where they categorized cities/certain areas by color coding them based on financial status or the kind of people there, how the housing is in some areas both poor and wealthy, and how education is also effected by the housing

#3A. What information did you learn in the video that helps you better understand Native Son, as well as other texts we’ve read, and videos we’ve seen in this class?

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 7:24AM) : Things I learned more

I learned how the racial discrimination just within housing can have a large impact on black lives. It made me see in “Native Son” even further how hard Bigger’s mother was struggling to keep everything together. To make sure that her children succeeded even though they had poor education. To make ends meet and provide for her three children even though she got paid very little. To keep her family alive while living in those poor conditions. For “Black Boy” it made me see even more why it was a must for the young boy to defend himself from the gangsters on the corner. It made me understand why they were on the corner other than just because they may have been hopeless. There was a reason behind it. So it really opened my eyes up to a variety of meanings behind the characters’ actions.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 6:26PM) : What I learned more

Some things I learned were how racial discrimination and segregation effected housing and education to a point were the problems are still around. Learning this information allowed me to see more into the struggles that Bigger and his family had. I could see why it was so hard for them to get a decent job, or a good education past the 8th grade. It became even further evident why Bigger’s mom was struggling so hard to keep her family supported and with a roof over their head. The information I learned really helped me see what it was like to live in their time period.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 20 2020 11:10PM) : Things that I learned from the video more

I learned about what redlinging and housing segregation and the effects that it has on the different communties especially on the Black South African community. I would say that one way that this would help me better understand Native Son is with Bigger I feel that with the inforamtion that is given here about the segregation and racial profiling I feel like I better understand where most of Biggers anger is coming from. Now better understanding how they were separated from the others because of their skin color and treated badly as if they had done wrong I would be angery most of my time too. Knowing that there is injustice towards me and I did nothing to dserve it.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 5:17AM) : Information Learned more

It is hard to believe how housing segregation even existed. I learned about how housing segregation was and the different laws that protected them. I didn’t know what that meant until after viewing the video. This helped me better understand Native Sone because white people would live in great areas and black people would live in areas with poor living conditions which would definitly cause anger. Throughout the story Bigger would demonstrate his anger towards white people because they would always receive better living conditions then them which was horrible because they never did nothing to deserve that type of unfairness and inequality.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 1:46PM) : what I learned more

I learned that racial discrimination impacted ¨Native Son¨ because in the novel, the mom would struggle with providing a roof over her family and it was difficult for Bigger to have a good education and a good job because of the racial discrimination.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 10:23PM) : Learnt more

This video made be become aware of house segregation and it effect on a black person life. I have always thought that it was all about racism and that’s why things were the way they were. I never saw that there were more laws in placed such as The National Housing Act of 1934 in order to give less and less opportunity to the blacks. I also wasn’t aware that housing had and impact to this. It also made me get a better understanding of Bigger mother and her struggle to provide. As they lived in poor condition with very little money. It also gave me a better insight as to the reason why Bigger only got to the level of education that he did and why he doesn’t want to continue. Also in Black boy you can see a mother struggles to provide for her family and this video made me understand why she pushed her son to be brave because she wants a better life for him and not a life of where he lives in fear.

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Leyla Brown Leyla Brown (Oct 21 2020 10:47PM) : What I learned from the video more

I learned that theres information like this that really shows how theres still a lot of racism in our system today. Some of which also stood out in Native Son, when they were searching for Bigger and checking black communities. When thats blatant segregation of races and also doesnt make it easier for poc to be successful. This whole cycle of inequality causes anger and hurt in our society which was clearly shown when Mary killed Bigger on accident because he was afraid to get caught with her.

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 11:25PM) : What I learned more

After watching the video, I was really able to understand with great clarity the causes and affects of redlining. In “Native Son” Bigger’s family doesn’t really have enough space for all them let alone the fact that Bigger’s mom is struggling to make sure that they stay together. I Realized that this was why Bigger’s mom wanted him to get the job with the Dalton’s so bad. Of course, the job would provide better income and the struggle of trying to maintain 3 kids would be less.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:27PM) : What I learned more

What I learned that helps me understand native son more is redlining and housing segregation because it gives me a better picture about where each racial and social group lives in and how they are treated by police which also gives me a better understanding on why different characters act a certain way in different areas

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 3:58PM) : #3A more

I felt like this is was truly unfair and not right at all to do. The fact that a lot of people get denied to get a house in a certain area is insane. Like do the people denying them realize that they probably want to get a house in that area for a better life for themselves or for their children. I feel this way because I have seen my mother struggle on her own with 3 children and try to do the best for them now lets not say a bigger family where there are 6-10 people in a house trying to get out of a place where their community is completely destroyed and once they start looking for a better area to live in they get denied because of their race, age or the amount of money the have. This is a problem at least to me I see it as one because what the system or whoever is behind this is wrong for doing this. These people deserve a better life they all do and the ways that their landlords have them living in is terrible.

#4A. How does this video relate to these texts and videos? How does it differ? (Make sure to focus on Native Son and other texts).

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 7:35AM) : Redlining Effects on people's lives more

It is different because times were different. In this video, everything is modernized while in “Native Son” and “Black Boy” those were during the 1930’s. In the 1930’s regardless of your schooling you still weren’t going to be given a good position in the workforce. While in today’s times you could partially get somewhere. But they are the same in which the housing segregation has a train affect in your life.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 4:16PM) : #4A more

This video relates to Native son in a way because the book takes place in the segregated side of Chicago which does touch one of the topics in the video. It differs in how it was clearly noticeable then but now the system(or who ever is behind redlining) just use different words to hide that type of segregation and try to cover up the fact that in some places it is segregated.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 6:32PM) : Relation and differences more

Even though the video allowed us to see what it was like back then, we still don’t have a full idea as the video focuses on how these old issues are still present now. Back then, you couldn’t really get out of the bad situation you were born in. You could get a job that allows you to somewhat comfortably get by, but nothing good enough to change your social standing. Nowadays, there are more opportunities. Like in Native Son, Bigger and his family were very lucky to get a job offer like the Daltons. Most people at that time would very rarely get a job that nice, especially with people who were willing to help them get a better education.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 20 2020 11:21PM) : Similarities and Differences more

I would say that a similarity from the video to the book Native Son is that they both talk about segregation in this country and the effects that it has on the communities that are suffering from it. Another would be that they both talk about redlinig in the video it is more clear when it is being talked about but in the book it is not but that does not mean that it is not there. When in the book information about how Biggers home looked and then when it was talking about how the Daltons home looked it was talking about the differences between the two and it can be seen that the rich white family lived in a much more better condition than what Bigger and his family were living in. A difference between the two would be that in the novel the main focus is about the life of one blach american and his situation and in the video it is talking a community or better said it is talking about a whole country.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 4:52AM) : Relations or Differences [Edited] more

The video relates to Native Son because the whites would live in better areas and have better resources than the black people and in the video they also talk about how the whites were most likely to have better living conditions and to live in better neighborhoods.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 1:49PM) : similarity and difference more

The video relates to the texts and the videos because they showed the struggles that would happen at the time for example, segregation. But it differs, because the novel shows a perspective from one person and his struggles unlike the video, where it shows the struggles as a whole area.

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Renee Robinson Renee Robinson (Oct 21 2020 10:07PM) : Redlining similarities and differences of read texts more

I found that Redlining is very similar to Native Son because in Native Son Black people lived in very run down and underdeveloped areas. For example, Bigger and his family of three other people had to live in a very small apartment that was the size of a single room, and from the video, I understand that Redlining was the cause of so many Black peoples’ poor and uncomfortable living conditions. However, the video is also different from the poem “Ballad of a Landlord” because in the video the speaker states that “it is…much harder for a black person to get a mortgage or home loan than it is for a white person,” but in the poem, the black man is a resident of the home he is in which is contradicting.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 10:40PM) : Differences and Relations more

The similarity between the Native Son and this video is that they both focus on segregation in the past. Even though in the video they mainly do more explaining than the book they still want to show the viewer the same issue the same thing. These two are different because one the time and location in which it takes places. It also is not focused on one person perspective on how they live but a group people and their community. Although we know that others in the the native son were also living in segregation we were only seeing Bigger life not theirs.

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Leyla Brown Leyla Brown (Oct 21 2020 10:54PM) : Similarities and Differences more

Housing segregation was obviously still relevant in the time of Native Son and contributed to getting Bigger caught. But even if he didnt live in a run down place he still wouldnt have been given that good of a job as a white man can get and still couldnt be as successful as someone with lighter skin. Even so as I said Housing Segregation still relates because it wouldve been easier for him not to get caught if the areas were integrated.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:32PM) : Relations and differences more

THis book relates becuase it has a setting of a segregated area such as the whites living in a better area than black people. This also differs by showing only the pov of one person and not what the whole society is expereincing

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 11:36PM) : Similarities and differences more

A similarity that was pretty obvious to me between the video and the book “Native Son” would be the topics touched and covered such as segregation or raacial discrimination. The main difference is the fact that the book talks about the life of Bigger and goes to show his character development. IN the book it really didn’t say much about the rest of the people who may have gone through the same thing or maybe something different. IN the video, it talks about a whole community of people and how they have sytruggled through all these vile acts and activities.

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#5A. Analyze the credibility of this source. What are some (potential) biases? Who are the speakers and sources used? What gives these speakers and sources credibility? Are there any issues with relevance or reliability? What are some holes, limitations, and/or questions that were not answered in this video?

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 7:38AM) : One-sided more

Some potential biases are that all of the speakers are black. So because they are going through the struggle they are more than likely going to advocate for change regardless if the facts are wrong or right. The speakers’ only credibility is that they live in that area. So they face the struggle, or see their people day in and day out going through the pain. It isn’t seen from different perspectives. Therefore it may not be entirely correct as the whole-spectrum isn’t seen it’s instead very one-sided.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 6:38PM) : Credibility more

The people who spoke in the video were all people who had been effected by the effects of redlining, and all were African American. Someone who was hispanic, or hadn’t experienced redlining or lived in a community that was redlined, may not have the same opinions or experiences. The main speaker of the video is more credible as he uses statistics and historical events to back up his reasoning. Some limitations I do see are that I don’t hear how redlining effected different ethnic groups in those neighborhoods, besides African Americans.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 5:31AM) : Credibility [Edited] more

A potential bias is that the speaker of the video is a person of color which could at times affect the credibility of the video because he talks about the inequality that his community has been through and could be hard to avoid personal opinions. The speaker of the video is black male named Gene Demby. What gives this speaker credibility is that he talks based on his experiences because he has been through black neighborhoods and even interviewed some people. Demby only talks about from a certain perspective however we are not able to see other perspectives which leaves many questions unanswered or unclear.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 6:54PM) : Credibility of source more

I would say that there may be potential bias because as it is known we are all human and when we come to talk about something taht affect our own race or community then we all would normally have that bias thought in our head. In this case that is not always the center so in this case focusing on the persective of what information is given in the video there are primary sources that are used to prove the point that is trying to be made. Even though it may seen bias that because the one speacking is black and the information is about the crualty towards the black community what should be taken into account s is the speaker giving their opinions or is he just giving the facts.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 7:55PM) : credibility more

It seems that the speaker was black but I am not sure. It seems like they were impacted by the situation. The credibility is that Demby is known for knowing about these topics such as race and culture. Questions that were not answered were that we don’t see the perspective of other people outside of the area. It would inform the audience better to know what was going on with other people.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 10:52PM) : Credibility more

A potential bias is that this video only speaks for one side of the main different races that lived in those areas. Many different opinions and voices were not heard so this would make the viewer thing his information isn’t valid. The speaker used historical events and laws and when I looked at his you tube channel I saw that he is known for knowing about segregation and the blacks history. The main question that I believe weren’t answered here was the how Redlining and all these other laws hat he stated affect other races other than the blacks. This made the video seem really bias.

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Leyla Brown Leyla Brown (Oct 21 2020 5:16PM) : Credibility of Source more

Some biases would be that the speakers are black. That also gives the speakers credibility because theyre living those lives that are effected by House Segregation. The speaker Demby has a lot of knowledge on the topic. A limitation would be not having the perspective of someone who doesnt live in that area too.

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 11:32PM) : Credibility more

There is potential for bias. Based on the voice I heard in the video, I would say the man was of color. Bias can occur either intentionally or unintentially. Hindsight bias coul dbe shown because we all have different beliefs and were each raised to believe certain ideologies. However, I have come to the conclusion that this is a credible source as the man had conducted interviews with different people but that does not mean that he was not bias. He only really showed his perspective on situations instead of giving the audience a perspective from every side and or angle.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:36PM) : Credibility more

A potential bias can be the speaker since he is a person of color.What gives them credibility is their knowledge and understanding of these topics. I dont see any issues with relevance or reliability. SOme questions not answered are why havent they stopped redlining aswell as why do people think redlining is good/bad.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 4:44PM) : #5A more

The speakers are journalists of color although in this specific video the speaker is Gene Demby. What gives Demby credibility is their jobs and what they have studied for like Gene Demby he is known for talking about race, ethnicity and culture. Some questions that weren’t answered was “Who is behind all of the redlining?” and “Why haven’t they stop redlining if this is problem?”.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 15 2020 8:54AM) : My great grandmother on my father's side his grandmother went through redlining. They lived in DC and on the papers for the house it said something along the lines of "do not sell to any Negro". It's just amazing to me that redlining wasn't that long ago
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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 15 2020 12:25PM) : A topic covered in this video was redlining. People who lived in redlined areas were not necessarily likely to default on their mortgages. But it made it difficult to buy or refinance.
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Sabrina Hackett Sabrina Hackett (Oct 15 2020 12:28PM) : A lot of stereotypes and racial profiling may not be a result of someone's race, so much as where they live but are seen as race since that tends to be a common factor.
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Renee Robinson Renee Robinson (Oct 15 2020 12:40PM) : I found that it was quite scary that the effects of redlining are still occurring today.
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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 12:56PM) : What this makes me think about is that this injustice that can be seen here in the video happened or is happening all around the world.
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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 2:11PM) : The information in the video was scary, especially the fact that redlining is still such a large issue even now. Plus the fact that people still have to live in unsafe housing units without much being done to make them safer. [Edited]
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Da'juan James Da'juan James (Oct 21 2020 3:48PM) : I thought the video was quite interesting as I didn't know anything about redlining or that negros were also segregated from living in certain areas. This is still an ongoing thing today also.
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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:39PM) : I find redlining crazy how people do not stop it and how it is still a problem to this day

RACIAL WEALTH GAP (16:12) [REQUIRED]

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#1B. In your notes, write down new vocabulary terms and jargon. What are specifics words/phrases you plan to incorporate into your discussions now.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 1:46AM) : Federally Enforced Segregation [Edited] more

A phrase that I plan to incorporate into my discussions now is “Federally Enforced Segregation”. This is when say for instance “redlining” was created and black Americans were excluded from certain living areas. That would be considered Federally Enforced Segregation as it was legal for this to happen and black Americans stayed in these positions for years. White Americans actually felt like Black people shouldn’t move into houses in white areas because they felt as if they would bring down the property value. So black Americans were forced to live in poor living conditions. This explains to me why in “Native Son” so many families had to live in one-bedroom apartments and couldn’t leave.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 2:02PM) : New Vocab more

I plan to use both the phrase “federally enforced segregation” and “subprime loans” in my discussions. I find the phrase “federally enforced segregation” useful in discussions as it does accurately describe a lot of what was going on in the time period of Native Son and the other texts we read. The term “subprime loans” isn’t something I’ve heard of before, and I find it useful to know what it is.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 10:40AM) : Word or Phrase more

A phrase that I plan to include in my discussion is “compounding interest.” I didn’t know what it meant. Compounding interest is the increasing of the price on an investment over time. I believe this phrase would be very useful in my discussion when i talk about the racial wealth gap.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 2:02PM) : federally enforced segregation more

I plan to incorporate specific words/phrases into my discussions such as federally enforced segregation. This would restrict people from areas because of the color of their skin. This is useful for discussions because there was discrimination against people of color in ¨Native Son¨.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 2:23PM) : Words and Phrases more

A term that I have learn from the video is “subprime loans”. From the Merrian-Webster dictionary the defintion of this term is " having or being an interest rate that is higher than a prime rate and is extended chiefly to a borrower who has a poor credit score rating or high risk for defualt. I would use this term in discussions that take about the discrimination and injustice towards the Black Americans and other races in this country.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 5:38PM) : Vocab more

The new words in which I have learnt through watching this video were compound interest and subprime loans. Compound interest is when the price of an investment increase over the years. An subprime loan is a loan that starts off cheap and get expensive for borrower with lower credit. These words would incorporate into my discussions if I am every writing or speaking on a subject on wealth gaps or even loans.

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 5:39PM) : Word or Phrase more

Some words I plan to incorporate in my future discussions are compunding interest, federally enforced segregation and subprime loans. These are terms that I did not know about.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:40PM) : Vocab more

I plan to use federally enforced segregation becuase it can apply to native son and there was also discrimination.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 12:42PM) : Words/ Phrases more

A term that I didn’t know about was “subprime loans”. Subprime loans are loans offered to the borrowers who do not qualify for conventional loans due to high risk factors such as poor credit history, low income, and a high debt-to-income ratio. I plan to use this in discussions when we talk about racial wealth gaps and racial housing segregation.

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 11:38PM) : Topics Covered more

The topics covered include the following: racial wealth gaps, slavery, redlining, subprime loans, racial discrimination and the lack of jobs.

#2B. What are some topics covered in this video?

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 12:45PM) : Topics Covered more

The topics covered in this video are many such as racial wealth gaps, slavery, racial incomes, housing, redlining, loans, the increase and decrease of money over time, and discrimination and many others.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 2:09PM) : Topics Covered more

Some of the topics covered are racial wealth differences, housing and redlining, increases and decreases in the economy and its effects on wealth, how banks took advantage of new laws and societies, subprime loans, and slavery.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 10:10AM) : Topic Covered more

The topics covered include racial wealth gap, racial discrimination, compounding interest, racial incomes, redlining, and subprime loans.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 2:04PM) : topics covered more

Some topics covered were racial wealth gaps, racial discrimination, racial incomes, subprime loans and slavery.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 2:26PM) : Topics that were covered in the video more

The topics that were covered were, the racial wealth gaps in this country, discrimination towards black Americans, redlining, the New deal, ways to decrease wealth gaps, slavery, subprime loans.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 5:18PM) : Topics covered more

The topic covered in this video are Redlining, Segregation, Racism, Discrimination, Compounding interest, Housing Discrimination, and Subprime Loans.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:42PM) : Topics covered more

Some topics covered include racial wealth gaps, compound interest, subprime loans, and redlining loans

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 7:50AM) : The Racial Wealth Gap more

The racial gap in wealth, unemployment, redlining,subprime loans,

#3B. What information did you learn in the video that helps you better understand Native Son, as well as other texts we’ve read, and videos we’ve seen in this class?

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 2:05AM) : Other Texts [Edited] more

Like said in my first response it made me realize why in “Native Son” black Americans stayed in one bedroom apartments with big families. In “Black Boy” it made me understand why the little boy and his family just couldn’t move when she found that her son kept getting robbed. Instead she had to toughen him up. Another example is in “Ballad of the Landlord” by Langston Hughes, his white landlord didn’t care that he lived in an apartment with a leaky roof, and broken stairs. Black Americans were placed in poor living conditions.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 2:14PM) : Information relations more

Just like the first video, its increasingly clear why it was so hard for African Americans to better there life, especially during the time period of Native Son. The same issues are clear in other texts like the excerpt from Black Boy. It confused me at first why the mother insisted her son toughen up, but I can see that she was likely trying to look out for him. To prepare him for the cruel world that was so discriminatory against his race.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 10:48AM) : Information Learned [Edited] more

In the video I learned about the racial wealth gap between whites and black people. White people disliked black people moving into their neighborhood because they saw them as a threat in housing prices. There were many laws that were put into place that supported the separation of households between white and black people. This helps me better understand some of the texts we’ve read so far because it give me more knowledge on why white people usually lived in areas separate from black people.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 2:09PM) : what I learned more

In the video, I learned about racial wealth gaps between white and black people. This would prevent those of color to have equal income as white people. I don’t like how white people didn’t like black people having the same income and this helps to better understand texts because the white people would discriminate black people.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 2:32PM) : what I learned [Edited] more

Something that I learned like Alison said was how difficilt it was and still is to have a better life. This helps me better understand Bigger from Native Son more because he was given a great opportunity to grow and how a good job but things happened and because of his skin color there was no way for him to fight because he was already convicted because of his skin color.

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 5:42PM) : Information learned more

The information I learned helped me understand the racial wealth gap between white people and black people and how black people had a rough time trying to just get by and live their lives. This actually reminded me of the poem “Ballad of the landlord” and the book ’Native Son" because in both, they had struggles with their living situations. Especially in “Ballad of the landlord” when the black male kept telling his landlord everything that had been happening in his home and the landlord simply ignored him and shrugged him off as if he were nothing.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:43PM) : Information learned more

Some information I learned in the video that better helps me understand native son is racial wealth gaps which prohibits people of color to have the same income as whites due to their color of their skin

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 5:47PM) : Information more

The information in this video helped me better understand how badly the whites fought for the blacks to stay below them. This also helped me understand how and why Bigger and his family live the way they do. They aren’t allowed to live near the white and even if they were they wouldn’t be able to afford it due racial wealth gaps and little to no educations.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 12:48PM) : #3B [Edited] more

The video helps me understand the “Ballad of the Landlord” by Langston Hughes because it mentions that the person was going through tough times while living in a home where the landlord didn’t care about how they lived nor the conditions they had to live in. And unlike in the video it explains the discrimination part of it all as it is shown in “Ballad of the Landlord”.

#4B. How does this video relate to these texts and videos? How does it differ? (Make sure to focus on Native Son and other texts).

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 2:10AM) : Ballad of the Landlord more

In both this video and “Ballad of the Landlord” by Langston Hughes,they share this idea of black Americans living in poor houses compared to white environments. They differ in while the poem describes how that put the character in jail,the video only talks about the wealth gap.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 1:18PM) : Text Relations more

In both this video, and the previous one, they connect to the themes in “Ballad of a Landlord” where the housing African Americans lived in were terrible. They couldn’t do anything about their living conditions either, as they couldn’t buy better housing either because they were too poor, or real estate agents refused to sell to them. One difference is how in “Ballad of a Landlord” there is also a focus on how easily it was for African Americans to be arrested and put in jail for the simplest of crimes, while the video focuses mainly on housing and wealth.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 2:12PM) : similarity and difference more

This video relates to the texts we´ve read because it shows how black people had poor homes and white people didn´t. The difference is that the texts have a different focus compared to this video because this video focuses on housing and income inequality.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 1:47PM) : How the video relates to the text [Edited] more

Well this video relates to To many of the texts and to the Book Native Son because of the fact of all the discrimination that is shown in the texts and and in the video. Even through the discrimination in the different text and in the video just because they are all protrayed in different ways it does not mean that they were not discrimination.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 3:09PM) : Relation or Difference more

This video relates to Native Son because in the video they talk about housing segregation which is something that was also talked about throughout the story. In Native Son white people always lived in the best area and the black people always lived in the worst area. Black people were always required to live in an area designated especially for them. It was very rare to see a black person in a white neighborhood unless he/she was a worker for the white people.

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 4:45PM) : Text relations more

This related to the poem “Ballad of the Landlord”. As I stated in my previous statement, the black male would continuously try to talk to his landlord about everything that was going bad in his home so he could go fix it but the landlord simply did not care. The video and the poem both discuss housing situations and how it affects people of color.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:45PM) : Text relations more

This video relates to the text becuase racial wealth gaps exist within native son and there is alot of discrimination aswell. It differs by the different focuses on the book and the video

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 5:57PM) : Relations and Differences more

In “Ballad Landlord” it talks about how a person experience due to the wealth gap and housing and in the video it showed and talked about different variety on the racial wealth gap. They are both similar because they are both based off racial discrimination and it effects on others.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 11:50AM) : Langston Hughes more

In the video it talks about wealth gap and housing and in the “Ballad of the Landlord” by Langston Hughes it talks about how a person is incarcerated. Although they do share the same subtopics such as discrimination.

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#5B. Analyze the credibility of this source. What are some (potential) biases? Who are the speakers and sources used? What gives these speakers and sources credibility? Are there any issues with relevance or reliability? What are some holes, limitations, and/or questions that were not answered in this video?

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 2:12AM) : Credible more

I feel as though this would be credible source. It included not just black Americans but also white Americans who have been on the other side of things and still see the racial inequalities. Not only this, but the speakers were actually experts who talked about the US as a whole and not just people who live in one specific place.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 1:24PM) : Credibility more

Some potential biases would be that people would say its fake and say that such thing does not exist because they don’t want to see the reality of things. The speakers in the video are Merhrsa Baradaran, Cory Booker, Thomas Shapiro and the narrator. Their credibility comes from what they have studied for and their resources. No the issues that they discussed are all relevant and reliable. A question that they did not answer is what is a possible solution for the racial wealth gap.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 2:24PM) : Credibility more

I consider the source credible, given they get there information from a variety of sources from different races and locations. Of course there is always a chance some of the speakers/sources may have been biased, but there is plenty of information from more than one perspective that can keep the information credible.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 2:17PM) : credibility more

It seems like this is a credible source because it shows perspective from white and black people. There were speakers who are experts that talked about the perspective of the nation. Questions that were not answered were what was the solution to fix this.

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Samuel Adetayo Oguntade Samuel Adetayo Oguntade (Oct 21 2020 2:40PM) : Credibilty more

A potential bias I noticed in this video was the speaker said foreign-born people and low-class whites also lived in the red zone but he didn’t talk about them at all.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 2:57PM) : Credibility more

I would say that the video is cridible. I say this because yes there may be some bias from where the information came from but in a whole the information was clear in stating facts and people from both racasis to support that. So in that case it would be credible.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 4:15PM) : Credibility more

I believe that this source is credible because it is seen from different perspectives which include the white and the black people. They also provide with statistics and interviews with people who talk about their experience. A question that remained unanswered is what could be done to end the racal wealth gap.

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 5:46PM) : Credibility more

This is a credible source because unlike the forst video, this one showed the perspective of both the white people and the black people which I believe could help prevent any bias.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:47PM) : Credibility more

This source is credible becuase information has been recieved from various sources. Some speakers may have been biased but due to the sources from different perspectives this source is credible

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 6:05PM) : Credible Source more

I believe that this is a credible source because it content historical factor, people who know and studied issue like this, and is shown from different perspectives, the white and blacks. I don’t believe that there are some bias because of the use of different perspectives and information on the issue. I believe that a way to improve the wealth gap was not really stated or answered in this video but only how it has failed.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 17 2020 7:39AM) : My Thoughts on this video more

I have seen this episode before now that I think about it. It really surprised me all over again how white people thought about black people. They really believed that they would bring down the property values on white houses. And the thing that is really messed up is that black Americans had no control over their income. They weren’t given enough money even though they worked hard. And they were redlined over something that they couldn’t even control. Which makes me think that this was how the stereotypes of how black people are “poor” started. The story that was told about how the man who set up the white realtor or landlord was really crazy. That just proves that this racial wealth gap is real and true and isn’t just something black people made up for more money. Which often times in different situations it is the case where black people are seen as trying to be “superior” or are “racist” for wanting equality.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 8:15PM) : The racial wealth gap is such a big issue, and the fact that many big bank businesses are trying to make profit off of someone else's bad financial situation is concerning and scary.
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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 11:00PM) : My thoughts more

The racial wealth gap is only one of the many thnings that were wrong and aare still happening today and I just think that it is something that is so impactfly in the sense that because of it some many lives have been ruined because of bad people in the world.

RICHARD WRIGHT BIO [REQUIRED]

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#1C. In your notes, write down new vocabulary terms and jargon. What are specific words/phrases you plan to incorporate into your discussions now.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 2:16AM) : Where Wright lived more

I plan to incorporate the two words, Roxie, Mississippi. This was a Southern State, and in the south racism was a still is a really big thing that occured. Meaning that Wright possibly faced his own racial inequalities especially because he was born in 1908. So in him writing his pieces of work he understood the struggle.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 8:48PM) : Symbol more

I plan to use “racial violence” in the following discussions. I have decided to incorporate because although the impacts of racial violence were much more frequent back in the day, it still impacts the colored community and I believe that racial violence is something that should be discussed in class since it has had a huge impact this year.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 2:52PM) : Hometown more

When discussing about Richard Wright I plan to keep him hometown in mind, as its likely one of the things that inspired his writing. Especially as he grew up in the southern part of the country where the racial issues were arguably worse than in the north.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 9:09PM) : Words or Phrases more

I plan to use the word “expatriate” in my discussion. This is a word that is used to describe a person who has moved from their native country. Richard Wright felt the need to move out of the country as he became delusional with the Communist Party and white America I believe many African Americans who were tired of how they were treated would prefer to leave the country. Wright felt it was better move out to Paris.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 10:10PM) : racial violence against black people more

I phrase “racial violence againsst black people” is something that I know what it maens and I understand it but I have not used it in my discussions yet I believe. So this will be something that I will used because it is something that has an great impact because it is something that in most of the texts that we are talking about in class.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 10:52PM) : racial violence more

I plan to incorporate specific words/phrases into my discussions such as racial violence.Iit is important to discuss about racial violence especially because of the BLM movement and its impact.This movement happened to protest against incidents of police brutality and all racially motivated violence against black people.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:50PM) : Words or phrases more

I plan to incorporate racial violence into my discussions because it is something going on for many years and it can have an impact on the discussion

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 6:37PM) : Words or phrases more

The words I plan to use in my discussion are expatriate, poverty and naturalistic fiction.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 9:05PM) : Vocab more

The words I would use are voracious, racial violence because they are words that described his life and can be used when talking about similar or issues that he wrote about. A word that I didn’t know was exemplary and it means a representation of something

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#2C. What are some topics covered in this passage?

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 2:18AM) : Wright's Background more

Single Mother, Education, Jim Crow South, Dreams

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 2:53PM) : Topics more

Childhood, poverty, education, Great Depression, communism, inspiration

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Jeferson Turciosrivera Jeferson Turciosrivera (Oct 20 2020 5:11PM) : Topics [Edited] more

Some topics covered include: Poverty, education, The Great Depression, Wealth, inequality,communism,and discrimination.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 4:03PM) : Topics more

Some topics that were covered: education, Poverty, The great depression,the communist party, and Amereican literature.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 4:18PM) : Topics Covered more

Some topics covered include racial discrimination, achievements, education, and wealth.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 4:54PM) : topics covered more

Some topics that covered were education, poverty, the communist party and American literature.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:51PM) : Topics covered more

Some topics covered include childhood, educaation, poverty, and wealth

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 7:21PM) : Topics Covered more

A couple of topics that were covered are poverty, education, amaerican capitalism, The great Depressions, wealth, inequality, and inspirations for writing.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 7:27PM) : Topics Covered more

The topics that were covered in this passage are education, childhood, dreams, Great Depression, Successes, Poverty and the Communist Party

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 8:53PM) : Topics more

Some topics that were covered were education, poverty, american capitalism and his career.

#3C. What information did you learn that helps you better understand Native Son, as well as other texts we’ve read, and videos we’ve seen in this class?

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 8:24AM) : Wright's Experiences more

The fact that Wright was alive and actually living during Jim Crow. This makes me understand that he went through his own injustices. He even claimed that in him writing “Black Boy” it offered a “moving account of his childhood youth in the South”. So everything in “Native Son” he really related to Bigger, he knew the pain.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 9:06PM) : Understanding of Native Son & Wright more

Now that I have learned more about Wright and now I can see the comparison between him and Bigger. This helps me see how Wright felt throughout his life and how hard his life was growing up. I also realized that he was apart of many things such as the Communist Party.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 9:01PM) : Understanding Wright more

After reading about Wright, I can see how both Black Boy and Native Son relate to his past experiences. Especially as Black Boy was his own autobiography. Knowing that both novels likely featured situations of inequality/injustice that he went through himself is interesting, and makes the novel so much more intriguing.

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Jeferson Turciosrivera Jeferson Turciosrivera (Oct 21 2020 12:51AM) : Personal experiences more

The information I learned that helps me understand the novel native son and some other of his writings is that everything he writes about when it comes to segregation,discrimination,inequality and all of those topics he had the first hand experience he didn’t not just write it from another person perspective but his own and we can see how he manipulates the characters to probably show his feelings on things.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 4:14PM) : A better understanding of Native Son more

With the information that was given about Wright I can better understand where the whole story is coming from. I can see that the novel is more personal to Wright because it has to do with something that was happening all around him during his life time and he used that for inspiration.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 10:28PM) : Information Learned more

I learned about about Richard Wright who is the author of Native Son and of Hunger. It always good to know about the authors life because the author may sometimes but themselves into the position of one of the characters. Like in this case Bigger Native Son. Based on his autobiography I noticed that he went thought similar situations like the ones Bigger went through.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 4:59PM) : what I learned more

I learned about the background of the novel. In the video, you can tell that Wright has a personal connection because it has a relationship with him growing up and decided to write it into a novel. It helps understand the novel better because I now know the background of ¨Native Son¨.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:53PM) : Information learned more

Some information learned that has helped me better understand native son includes that he has experionce those types of events whihc somewhat give him a bias on them and I can better understand where he is coming from

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 9:10PM) : Information more

In this article I learnt more about the author of Black boy and Native Son. I learnt about his struggles as a child and an adult and this helped me understand the text more and what inspired it.

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 22 2020 4:27AM) : Richard Wright more

After reading about Richard Wright, I have come to realize that all of his experiences were his inspiration to write Native Son. The main character in his book, Bigger, is very much similar to him. Besides Native Son, all of his other work is based of of real life experiences, things that he has seen happen. Getting to know him really provides clarity around his literature work and why he did what he did.

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#4C. How does this text relate to these texts and videos? How does it differ? (Make sure to focus on Native Son and other texts).

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 8:30AM) : Wright and his work [Edited] more

It relates in which in this and in “Native Son” and “Black Boy” they all face racial discrimination. I wouldn’t say that there are any differences because all of those characters were based off of Wright and his experiences.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 9:17PM) : Wright's Work more

This relates to his novel “Native Son” because it shows all of his struggles and the types of racial discrimination that he had to go through. Although most of the things that he wrote in his novel related to him on a personal level. There were no differences to me when I read the biography and novel since it demonstrates how relatable the novel was to him.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 3:06PM) : Wright's Novels more

The text relates to both Native Son and Black Boy as both texts were based off of his own experiences in America. I couldn’t see any differences between the novels and the biography as the two novels were based on his own experiences.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 10:22PM) : The relationship more

This text relates to The text that we read of “Black Boy” because this text is talking about where the information of the excert from “Black Boy” came from. It shows that the book “Black Boy” is really personal to Wright because it is about him. A difference that I saw between the novel “Native Son” and the text is that the Novel I do not believe that it is about but about a character that Wright created and the text is mainly about Wright.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 10:32PM) : Relation or Difference more

The video relates to both Native Son and Black Boy because both texts are based on his own experiences. The only difference is that Richard Wright left the country to go to Paris and became an expatriate. He decided to move to Paris because he felt disappointed with both the Communist Party and white America as no not enough progress was made to stop racism.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 5:02PM) : Wright´s Work [Edited] more

The texts relate because they all face racial discrimination. I do not see any differences because it is based on Wright´s background.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:55PM) : Wrights work more

This relates becuase they were both based off his own experiences . There were no differences

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 9:17PM) : Relation more

This article relates to the Native Son and Black boy because Richard Wright bio because his life is what inspired both stories. They are different because in the story there were main things that happened in the book that didn’t happen to Richard Wright or at least not stated in this biography.

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 10:29PM) : Relation between Wright and his work more

This relates to his literature work because it discusses all of his first hand experiences and provides clarity to the audience about the topics that are discussed in each and every one of the work we have read so far.

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#5C. Analyze the credibility of this source. What are some (potential) biases? Who are the speakers and sources used? What gives these speakers and sources credibility? Are there any issues with relevance or reliability? What are some holes, limitations, and/or questions that were not answered in this video?

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 2:33AM) : Credible Source more

I would say that this may be credible. This is biography.com so further research would have to be done in order to view it’s sources used. But it tells Wright’s story so there wouldn’t necessarily be any biases.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 17 2020 3:22PM) : Creds more

The biography is credible. Although the author is biography.com so the sources would need additional research. This is a biography so I don’t believe that there could be any biases on his life.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 3:09PM) : Credibility more

The source is credible, as it is just a recounting of his life. Whether the sources the article is based on are credible is a different topic, but overall the source doesn’t appear to have any bias or issues.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 4:24PM) : Credibility more

This text is Credible becuase I do not believe that they is much bias in a biography, only if the creator wanted to say something different that really did not happen but for the most part the information should be credible.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 10:36PM) : Credibility more

This is credible because it was an autobiography that Richard Wright wrote on his own. Although it was published in website which could have a slight possibly that may have been edited. However, based on ideas expressed in his own writing this autobiography seems like a reliable source.

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Emely A. Emely A. (Oct 21 2020 5:06PM) : credibility more

The source is credible even though it is biography.com so there would have to be further research to find out if it is really credible but it is Wright’s perspective so I don´t think there are biases.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:56PM) : Credibility more

This is credible becauuse it is based on himself and there is no bias

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 9:21PM) : Credibility more

I believe that these article is credible because for one it is not bias. It an autobiography that is only focuses on one person it is not being misleading and it is straight forward with the information it present.

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Yanci Argueta Yanci Argueta (Oct 21 2020 10:31PM) : Credibility more

This source is credible because there really is no room for any bias as it discusses the life and work of Richard Wright.

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https://www.biography.com/writer/richard-wright

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Richard Wright Biography (1908–1960)

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Richard Wright

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 17 2020 7:58AM) : My Thoughts more

I am glad that I read this because it gives me a better understanding of how well Wright knew about black struggles. Which makes me realize why what he wrote was so intense, in-depth, reasonable, relatable, and real. It was all real, there was no covering up how certain things were said, so that other people were comfortable. No it told the cold-hard truth about how scary it was and still is for a black person living in America. Especially because of the fact that he was BLACK and a MAN in the 1930s where jim crow was still going on. When I learn about those times and see how things were I get really scared. I mean I have faced small simple, and minor acts of racial discrimination in the 16 years that I have been alive but that is nothing compared to what Wright, Bigger, and other black Americans faced in the 1930s. That forces me to understand their views, points, feelings, and actions in living during those times.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 8:19PM) : Thoughts more

I enjoyed reading this as it gave me insight into Wrights own life and his inspirations for writing his books, especially Native Son. Learning that he was a Communist was surprising, and I wander if that’s what inspired the Jan in Native Son.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 10:26PM) : My thoughts more

I liked this reading because it gave me more understanding of where the novel Native Son came from. Also seeing what was that inspired Wright in his creations.

UPDATED:SEP 15, 2020 ORIGINAL:FEB 17, 2018

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Pioneering African American writer Richard Wright is best known for the classic texts 'Black Boy' and 'Native Son.

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Who Was Richard Wright?

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Richard Wright was an African American writer and poet who published his first short story at the age of 16. Later, he found employment with the Federal Writers' Project and received critical acclaim for Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of four stories. He is well-known for his 1940 bestseller Native Son and his 1945 autobiography, Black Boy.

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Early Life

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was born on September 4, 1908, in Roxie, Mississippi. The grandson of slaves and the son of a sharecropper, Wright was largely raised by his mother, a caring woman who became a single parent after her husband left the family when Wright was five years old.

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Schooled in Jackson, Mississippi, Wright only managed to get a ninth-grade education, but he was a voracious reader and showed early on that he had a way with words. When he was 16, a short story of his was published in a Southern African American newspaper, an encouraging sign for future prospects. After leaving school, Wright worked a series of odd jobs, and in his free time, he delved into American literature. To pursue his literary interests, Wright went as far as to forge notes so he could take out books on a white coworker's library card, as Black people were not allowed to use the public libraries in Memphis. The more he read about the world, the more Wright longed to see it and make a permanent break from the Jim Crow South. "I want my life to count for something," he told a friend.

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Chicago, New York and the Communist Party

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In 1927, Wright finally left the South and moved to Chicago, where he worked at a post office and also swept streets. Like so many Americans struggling through the Depression, Wright fell prey to bouts of poverty. Along the way, his frustration with American capitalism led him to join the Communist Party in 1932. When he could, Wright continued to plow through books and write. He eventually joined the Federal Writers’ Project, and in 1937, with dreams of making it as a writer, he moved to New York City, where he was told he stood a better chance of getting published.

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Commercial and Critical Successes

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Uncle Tom's Children

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In 1938, Wright published Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of four stories that marked a significant turning point in his career. The stories earned him a $500 prize from Story magazine and led to a 1939 Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Native Son

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More acclaim followed in 1940 with the publication of the novel Native Son, which told the story of a 20-year-old African American man named Bigger Thomas. The book brought Wright fame and freedom to write. It was a regular atop the bestseller lists and became the first book by an African American writer to be selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club. A stage version, written by Wright and Paul Green, followed in 1941, and Wright himself later played the title role in a film version made in Argentina.

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Black Boy

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In 1945, Wright published Black Boy, which offered a moving account of his childhood and youth in the South. It also depicts extreme poverty and his accounts of racial violence against Black people.

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Later Years and Career

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After living mainly in Mexico from 1940 to 1946, Wright became so disillusioned with both the Communist Party and white America that he went off to Paris, where he lived the rest of his life as an expatriate. He continued to write novels, including The Outsider (1953) and The Long Dream (1958), and nonfiction, such as Black Power (1954) and White Man, Listen! (1957)

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Wright died of a heart attack on November 28, 1960, in Paris, France. His naturalistic fiction no longer has the standing it once enjoyed, but his life and works remain exemplary.

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LITERARY CRITICISM EXCERPT [REQUIRED]

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 17 2020 8:16AM) : My Thoughts more

I personally do not agree with Mathis’ views. Before the article even starts she claims that she doesn’t imagine that “many black people would have embraced such a grotesque portrait of themselves”. I don’t think she fully interpreted Wright’s purpose in what she calls a “grotesque portrait”. I feel as though many people may feel similarly in this way. But if you think about everything that Bigger had went through in his lifetime you would see his purpose. Many called Bigger “wrong” for being so proud of killing Mary and Bessie, but I don’t see it that way. He wasn’t happy because he killed them, it is even stated in the text that he had a conscience and he felt remorse and bad about doing it, as one was accidental. The only reason why he felt so raised about it was because for the first time in his life he didn’t have the fear of white people controlling him. He had actually gotten away with killing Mary for a certain period of time. He felt free from that lifelong burden that pushed him to believe he was nothing. He felt smart for the first time, he had this drive and so it’s not that Wright was depicting Bigger as this monstrous character instead he was conveying just how much white superiority effected Bigger. It pushed him to where he talked about his own self, he believed that being black was bad all his life through his living conditions, his social class, his education. So when you have been controlled all your life by someone who can instantly get rid of you, in seconds flat, without hesitation, and no remorse, but instead of doing that leading you to be hopeless all your life and guiding you either to jail or your death, there is nothing else that you can feel but free.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/books/review/james-baldwin-denounced-richard-wrights-native-son-as-a-protest-novel-was-he-right.html

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#1D. In your notes, write down new vocabulary terms and jargon. What are specific words/phrases you plan to incorporate into your discussions now.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 2:36AM) : Views on Wright more

“Wright is a bleak ungenerous depiction of Black life”, this makes me think. It shows me how some people view him which is ironic to how award winning his texts are. There must be a reason behind it. And does this therefore make his texts unreliable?

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 3:15PM) : Vocabulary more

The term “tenanted” isn’t one I’ve heard before. Now that I know the term basically means “occupied”, I do plan to use it in discussions as its a term that may make someone think further about what is being said.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 4:55PM) : Vocab more

The term caricature would be something that I would use in my discussion being it is something that is going to appear which is because there is always going to be people that are going to bring you down and try to bring what you did down and this word defines that action.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 5:36PM) : Word or Phrase more

A word that I didn’t what it meant was “excoriated” which means to censure or to criticize severely. This word is a very fancy word to be used in my discussion.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:59PM) : Vocab more

Caricature is something i would use due to there will always be haters and many people try to succeed by hating on others

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 9:38PM) : Words more

The news I learned and that I would be using in future discussion would be pamphlet which means a leaflet containing information or arguments about a single subject and berserk which mean out of control with anger. I will use this words to get my classmates thinking and asking question in order to have a better discussion.

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#2D. What are some topics covered in this passage?

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 2:46AM) : Wright's Interpretations more

Grotesque portrait, Exaggeration

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 3:20PM) : Interpretations more

Caricature, exaggerated, Bigger

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Jeferson Turciosrivera Jeferson Turciosrivera (Oct 20 2020 8:07PM) : Topics more

Exaggerating,Native Son, and different time periods

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 4:52PM) : Topics more

Caricature, protest, social and political plroblems.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 5:37PM) : Topics Covered more

Topics covered include exaggeration, Richard Wright, and Native Son.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 5:57PM) : Topics more

Native son, caricature, exagerration

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 9:42PM) : Topics more

The topic covered in this article are Native Son, Bigger Thomas, White Racial Imagination, Protest and a whole lot of exaggeration.

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#3D. What information did you learn that helps you better understand Native Son, as well as other texts we’ve read, and videos we’ve seen in this class?

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 8:56AM) : Different Lives more

It helps me understand that many black Americans have faced different experiences. The author of this article clearly has faced a different life than Wright. Wright grew up in the 1900’s where segregation was still going on and it was harder back then than now which takes a toll on how bad black people felt during that time. This article was made in 2015, when times were a lot more easier and the stress of black people wasn’t that bad. Segregation wasn’t even going on in 2015.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 9:24PM) : Opinions more

Compared to Wright, the author of this article has had different experiences than he did. Racial issues were much bigger back then, while now they are not nearly as bad. Of course what is said is at least half true, as the novel was likely targeted towards the white community and exaggerated so that the readers would feel prompted to do something about the issue.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 10:50PM) : Better understanding more

What I learned about this text to better understand Native Son and the whole situation in a whole is that there will laways be people that want to bring down what you do and not accept it and I would say that that is why Bigger Was afraid to try anything was becuase of the fact that he was not sure of what would happen, or of what people would do or say to him.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 5:40PM) : Information Learned more

The writes has a different perspective compared to the life that Richard Wright had. It’s is good to know more information from different perspective in order to gain more knowledge.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 6:01PM) : Info learned more

Information learned that better helps me understand inludes where the author is coming from and the act of people hating on you in order to see you fail.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 9:49PM) : Information Learnt more

I learnt that everyone has a different opinion on everything and takes in different context and messages differently. Wright wrote the Native Son in the 1900 and wrote based off his on experience and a more segregated America than 2015.

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#4D. How does this text relate to these texts and videos? How does it differ? (Make sure to focus on Native Son and other texts).

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 8:53AM) : Similarities and Differences. more

It relates in how it talks about Bigger’s actions but while in this article she interprets the text one way, the book is made to be interpreted way differently. The book isn’t trying to portray Bigger as this monstrous character rather the psychological effects of the world on a young black male. In the text the author feels Bigger isn’t a good representation of Black life because he is monstrous.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 9:27PM) : Compare and Contrast more

The text does relate to the novels by Richard Wright, but what is being said in the article is different than what was said in the novels. When Richard Wright wrote his novels he was trying to bring attention to the sufferings of the black community and the effects the oppressions had on there mental state. The author of the article saw it differently, as if Wright was trying to make African Americans look evil, or monstrous, as she described Bigger.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 10:46PM) : How does it relate and differ more

I would first say that the only thing that really related to the novel Native Son like Aiyana said was the fact the writer talked about Bigger the way that the book does. But the difference is that the Author of this text said that the reason why Wright wrote the book was to make the white people feel bad, but I bellieve that Wright really made it to just express how he felt and and his interpetation of what was going on around him.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 5:42PM) : Relation or Differences more

The article doesn’t relate to the Native Son much however they writer does talk about Bigger who is the main character of the novel as well as Richard Wright who was the author of the novel.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 3:56AM) : Relation more

The similarity between the book and this article is how Bigger Thomas is portrayed other than that the main difference is that the author is stating that Wright wanted to make the blacks look bad in the eyes of the whites so they could hate them even more. When certainly that is inaccurate because in the previous article it talked about Richard Wright struggle as a black man in the south and how his experience are similar to those of the Native Son and the Blackboy.

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#5D. Analyze the credibility of this source. What are some (potential) biases? Who are the speakers and sources used? What gives these speakers and sources credibility? Are there any issues with relevance or reliability? What are some holes, limitations, and/or questions that were not answered in this video?

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 16 2020 8:49AM) : Not credible [Edited] more

Well seeing as how this is someone’s personal interpretation of “Native Son” it is based on opinion and not fact to I would say that it isn’t credible. It’s bias, and personally how this woman sees it. She wonders why Wright would make the character Bigger so inhumane. Was he right for it? But in other people’s eyes he isn’t. So I don’t think this would be a credible source. It definitely makes me think, but everyone has different views.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 3:29PM) : Credibility more

I would not consider this credible as its truly based on the own authors opinion, without any contrasting views. The article is just Mathis’s and Baldwin’s words on the novel, both of which were biased against it. No accounts were given in support of the novel.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 4:40PM) : Credibility more

After reading the information the was given I would say that this text is not credible. The main idea of the information that is given all comes from the opinions of one person. I did not see much or any fact based evidence to prove what is being said.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 5:45PM) : Credibility more

I believe that this text is not credible as the author talks about the past as she has personally experience before. the writer of this text is Ayana Mathis. Mathis did not provide with anytime of evidence that could prove her points.

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Carlos Herrera Carlos Herrera (Oct 21 2020 6:02PM) : Credibility more

This source is not credible becuase it is mainly bias and it is not from many peoples perspective

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 9:59PM) : Credibility more

I don’t believe that this article is credibly because it is an opinions and not a fact. It is written with so much aggression and is also a one sided information and not really bias. They also didn’t add no other sources meaning only these are the words of only one person.

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James Baldwin Denounced Richard Wright’s ‘Native Son’ As a ‘Protest Novel.’ Was He Right?

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By Ayana Mathis and Pankaj Mishra Feb. 24, 2015

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By Ayana Mathis

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I don’t imagine many black people would have embraced such a grotesque portrait of themselves.

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Ayana Mathis

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 8:21PM) : Thoughts more

I personally felt as if what the author was saying was harsh, as in my eyes Bigger wasn’t a monstrous creature. He was just someone who fell prey to the systemic racism and oppression in the world he lived in. The only monstrous part of him I could see was the murder, but even he seemed to regret what he’d done.

Ayana Mathis

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Illustration by R. Kikuo Johnson

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James Baldwin excoriated the protest novel as a pamphlet in literary disguise, tenanted by caricatures in service to a social or political agenda. Its failure, he wrote, lay in “its insistence that it is . . . categorization alone which is real and which cannot be transcended.” Bigger Thomas, the protagonist of Richard Wright’s “Native Son,” cannot transcend blackness, and his blackness, in Wright’s hands, is as ugly and debased a thing as ever was. Whether the book is a protest novel, or even whether it fails as a work of literature, are questions unworthy of a groundbreaking work that continues to inspire debate 75 years after its publication. More relevant is the matter of its resonance in our time, so distant from Wright’s own.

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“Native Son” sold an astonishing 215,000 copies within three weeks of publication. Thus, a great many people received a swift and unsparing education in the conditions in which blacks lived in ghettos all over America. Of course, black people already knew about all of that, so it is safe to conclude that Wright’s intended audience was white. And, in any case, I don’t imagine many black people would have embraced such a grotesque portrait of themselves. Bigger Thomas is a rapist and a murderer motivated only by fear, hate and a slew of animal impulses. He is the black ape gone berserk that reigned supreme in the white racial imagination. Other black characters in the novel don’t fare much better — they are petty criminals or mammies or have been so ground under the heel of oppression as to be without agency or even intelligence. Wright’s is a bleak and ungenerous depiction of black life.

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Wright knew this, of course — his characters were purposely exaggerated, in part to elicit a white audience’s sympathy and to shock it into racial awareness and political action. But where does that leave his black subjects? Let us consider some other works published in roughly the same era: Zora Neale Hurston’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Jean Toomer’s “Cane,” Ann Petry’s “The Street.” Like Bigger Thomas, the protagonists in these books are black, suffering under segregation and, for the most part, poor. Unlike Bigger Thomas, they are robust and nuanced characters — not caricatures endlessly acting out the pathologies of race. Much of the black literature of the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s, explicitly or implicitly, was concerned with race in America. How could it have been otherwise? For better or worse, many of the characters in the literature of that period were representational to some extent — black people in the real world were the correlative to black characters on the page. And this is significant, because when black writers affirmed their black subjects’ full humanity, the scope of their novels included the expectation that the real world would change radically so that it too could affirm and acknowledge that humanity. I am led to wonder, then, about a character like Bigger Thomas. What future, what vision is reflected in such a miserable and incompletely realized creature?

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Ayana Mathis is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a recipient of the 2014-15 New York Public Library’s Cullman Center Fellowship. “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie,” her first novel, was a New York Times Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, one of NPR’s Best Books of 2013 and was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as the second selection for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0. Ayana taught Creative Writing at The Writer’s Foundry MFA Program at St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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--- SPLIT THE REST OF THESE VIDEOS AMONGST YOUR GROUP---

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You can always come back to watch more or find other sources to elaborate on these topics.

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CHILDREN IN PERSISTENT POVERTY (5:47 mins)

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#1. In your notes, write down new vocabulary terms and jargon. What are specifics words/phrases you plan to incorporate into your discussions now.

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#2. What are some topics covered in this video?

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#3. What information did you learn in the video that helps you better understand Native Son, as well as other texts we’ve read, and videos we’ve seen in this class?

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#4. How does this video relate to these texts and videos? How does it differ? (Make sure to focus on Native Son and other texts).

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 18 2020 9:57PM) : Children in Persistent Poverty #4 more

This video relates to the novel because in the novel Bigger and his family were going through tough poverty and this also relates to Wright since he had mentioned when he was younger he had to live through poverty too.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 20 2020 3:30AM) : Native Son more

This video relates to Native Son because Bigger grew up poor. He was a high-school drop out, he lacked a steady job. He spent his early years of adulthood living in poverty. Which kind of gave him this bad frame of mind. Bigger went through toxic stress most likely growing up seeing as how he had to be the man of the house at an early age when his father died. Which left a negative affect on his future. Explaining why he always seemed to have a certain attitude about him.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 10:47PM) : Relations or Differences more

In the video the speaker discusses on how opportunities are not equal for all and especially for children who were born into poor families. This video relates to Native Son because black people didn’t have the same opportunities as white people and in this case it is not only children being born into poor families but also being born into black families because sadly black families were most likely to be poor.

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#5. Analyze the credibility of this source. What are some (potential) biases? Who are the speakers and sources used? What gives these speakers and sources credibility? Are there any issues with relevance or reliability? What are some holes, limitations, and/or questions that were not answered in this video?

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https://youtu.be/gDkpWwkXkHw

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 18 2020 9:52PM) : Initial Response more

I feel like the video simply gave me basic information on children in poverty. I feel this way because I was expecting to get new information on the topic but mainly it was repeated information that I knew already on the topic except the statistics. I choose this video to see if their was anything or anything else that could help children in poverty but sadly I was mistaken.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 20 2020 2:58AM) : Initial Response more

I honestly already knew what this video was talking about. My father went through this. And so did my grandparents and their parents. It was like a train effect,and my father and uncles were able to make it out of poverty but it is not common for many people. Growing up in DC for both of my parents they explained to me that it was hard, which is why they teach me and my siblings to be appreciative of even the little things because sometimes my father didn’t even get a meal, or a decent pair of clothes for a couple of months, or even a nice warm bed to sleep in.

MALADAPTIVE COPING MECHANISMS (2:31)

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#1. In your notes, write down new vocabulary terms and jargon. What are specifics words/phrases you plan to incorporate into your discussions now.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 5:33AM) : Vocab more

Maladaptive Coping Mechanism – are behavior that make us feel better in the short term and harmful in the long term
I plan to use the two words Adaptive Coping Mechanisms and Maladaptive Coping Mechanism in future discussions.

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#2. What are some topics covered in this video?

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 5:36AM) : Topics more

1. Maladaptive Coping Mechanisms
2. Adaptive Coping Mechanism

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#3. What information did you learn in the video that helps you better understand Native Son, as well as other texts we’ve read, and videos we’ve seen in this class?

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 5:46AM) : Infromation more

I learned what the two topic meant and also learnt how they referred to me. This also help me understand bigger actions on a mental level.

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#4. How does this video relate to these texts and videos? How does it differ? (Make sure to focus on Native Son and other texts).

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 18 2020 4:08PM) : Maladaptive Coping Mechanisms #4 more

I believe that Bigger had some maladaptive coping mechanisms after all he did kill his girlfriend because of his paranoia.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 19 2020 9:03PM) : Connection [Edited] more

Just like said in this video in Native Son Bigger found a way to cope with his toxic stress by smoking, joining the gang, stealing, having sex, being mean around everyone. Just things to help him take the sting off of his life.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 4:54PM) : Relations or Differences more

This video relates to Native Son because I believe that Bigger had Maladaptive Coping Mechanism because he did things like shoplifting, risk taking behavior, compulsive lying which are definitely shown throughout the text.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 5:14PM) : Connections to Native Son more

I would say that this video relates to the novel Native Son because it seems to me that like Crystal said Bigger may have this problem of all the bad emotions that Bigger was feel he took some risks and they were not good ones.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 21 2020 11:51PM) : Relation more

The similarity is that in Native Son Bigger used Maladaptive Coping Mechanisms to cope with the fact that he killed someone. He started to lie constantly having sex and doing other risky behaviors. The difference is that Bigger didn’t have no Adaptive Coping Mechanisms

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#5. Analyze the credibility of this source. What are some (potential) biases? Who are the speakers and sources used? What gives these speakers and sources credibility? Are there any issues with relevance or reliability? What are some holes, limitations, and/or questions that were not answered in this video?

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 5:58AM) : Credibility more

I believe that this video is somewhat credible because it wasn’t biased and was just an informative video. I do find some thing weird though and that is that in the ending it say that the YouTube channel and website is a support for parents of children with eating disorders

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https://youtu.be/522XPHhHWHY

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 18 2020 10:14PM) : I felt like this video explained what maladaptive coping mechanisms were to me since I had not known what the meaning of it was before until I watched the video. I state this because that is what the video had explained to me. more

I choose this video because the title had caught my attention and I was curious to know what it was about.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 20 2020 3:05AM) : Realization more

This explains why we people who go through trauma in certain shows that I have watched may grow up and become an alcoholic. Or a drug addict, it’s because of their negative childhood experiences.

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Joshua Martinez Joshua Martinez (Oct 21 2020 8:19AM) : This explains why most people fall into bad habits that lead to harm in the long term because they feel the have to depend on it. They should just try to focus on ther adaptive coping mechanisms such as self-care, assertiveness, and emotional processing.
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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 11:18PM) : My thoughts more

I feel that this opened my mind more in the sense that I now can understand where the actions that where mentioned in the video come from. I fell that is video is really important because there are many people that may be suffering from this and they do not know what to do and this is a good way to find help and understande the cause and what to do about the maladaptive coping mechanism.

SCHOOLS & SOCIAL INEQUALITY (11:26 mins)

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 9:34PM) : Meritocracy more

Meritocracy – a system in which hard work and talent is recognized and rewarded.
I plan to use this term in discussions as even though the system often says they support hard work, the hardest working people may still be put at a disadvantage because of their race or social/economic class.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 9:45PM) : Topics more

Social inequalities, racial inequalities, mislabeling, standardized tests, college, dropout rates, school to prison pipeline

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Joshua Martinez Joshua Martinez (Oct 21 2020 8:17AM) : Some topics covered in this a-eating dissorders,self-harm,emotional processing, self-care, and assertiveness.
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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 9:50PM) : Information more

Watching the video gave me more information on how the school system finds ways to make like harder for people in minority groups. From watching the video I can imagine how bad it must have been when Bigger went to school.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 20 2020 3:21AM) : Connection [Edited] more

I was the same way for Bigger. He wasn’t given a chance, the school system automatically dropped him. He had to leave school because he couldn’t pay for it. He didn’t have access to a good quality school, meaning he didn’t even have a chance in college.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 20 2020 9:57PM) : Connections more

This video relates to Native Son as part of Bigger’s problems was that he wasn’t given a chance to go to college and social inequality didn’t allow him to seek it. All because he was part of the black community and went to a poor quality school, which he had no control over either.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 18 2020 10:32PM) : Schools & Social Inequality #4 more

This relates to Native son on the aspect of society because throughout the novel society was a main topic. Mainly because of how society was unequal with the races such as blacks and whites.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 11:05PM) : Credibility more

The potential biases is that the speaker could definitely provide her opinion or even experience sometime even unintentionally. There is several people who worked to put the information provided in this video altogether and they use information provided by US Department of Education, Immediate College Enrollment rate, and National Education for Student Statistics and many other organizations. I believe that this video is reliable due to the fact that they are also using information from the government and not only them.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 18 2020 10:42PM) : Initial Response: Schools & Social Inequality more

I feel that most of the information she mentioned was true that sometimes it is the low amount of money in the schools but it also who is parenting the children at home and the areas in where they live, as well as their parents academic history. Although some children who really want a future for themselves strive to get a future for themselves no matter their parents academic history. I feel this way because I can relate to it in a way since as a child it was hard for me to learn but now that I have grown I now know what I want for myself in my future so I try my best to look for the best opportunities to help me get where I want to be no matter where I am living, or my parents academic history. I choose this video because I found it an interesting topic to know more of.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 20 2020 3:27AM) : My Thoughts more

I am glad that this video was made. It tells the truth about discrimination against young black males which is and has been a really big problem in the US. Being that I have a 13 year old brother about to go into middle school where there is a lot more exposure to certain things I fear for him. I fear for my father who has to go out sometimes and has been stopped by the police once before and racially profiled. Not only this but it’s just a big problem in the US. Which is why I will push for change each and every day of my life for my race. I may have a son one day and a husband who have to face that. I see things like this day in and day out and it’s scary to think that your own brother could be killed by someone who is supposed to protect him.

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Joshua Martinez Joshua Martinez (Oct 21 2020 8:10AM) : This video was great because it answered some questions that I always had like, why do most schools in other counties with predominantly white student have better schools and more in school opportunities. Now i know that its because of property taxes more

funding the schools.

ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (9:17 mins)

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 11:12PM) : Topics covered more

Topics covered in this video includes adverse childhood experiences, brain development, and toxic stress.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 20 2020 12:32AM) : #4 Adverse Childhood Experiences [Edited] more

I believe that this video relates to Bigger in a way because when the video mentions “safe, stable” I think well was Bigger in a safe and stable home? Was he surrounded by a safe community? And then I answer it and say not really because in the novel’s time setting (1930s) which were harsh times since lots of events were happening at that time such as the Great depression (which also relates to Wright since he was alive through that time period), New Deal begins, and World War II begins as well. There are a few differences.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 20 2020 3:46AM) : Help for Bigger more

This is the same in Native Son because Bigger also went through racism ever since he was younger. Or having to hear people telling him that he was nothing his whole life. That he was a monster, black, an ape, a rapist, a killer, that his people were savages. Not only this but when he was smaller his father passed from a protest against racial inequalities. That was most likely hard for him especially because he lost his father to racial discrimination. In the book Bigger’s lawyer is trying to reveal this fact when talking to the courtroom about why Bigger did why he did. And some counseling would have helped Bigger as there were treatments that could heal the brain from past traumas.But no one back then cared black Male mentality. If they did it only pertained to the fact that they were “rapists”, “killers”, “threats”, and etc.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 11:38PM) : Relationship between Native Son and the video more

I feel that this video relates to the novel Native Son because even though Bigger might of lived in a caring home but the outside world was not a place that was caring to him. When I say that I am talking about the racism, and disrimination and such. All of these things that were happening to him and his people created adverse childhood experiences for him and that is what created who he is when he is older.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 20 2020 12:01AM) : Initial Response: Adverse Childhood Experiences more

I feel that this topic is not really spoken about often and it should be spoken about especially to parents but also children so that they know not to do it their children when they are older. I feel this way because the video touched on topics that I could relate to. I choose the video I wanted to know more about the topic and because it seemed like a topic that would interest me.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 20 2020 3:40AM) : My Dream more

This is what inspires me to be a psychologist. People go through things and the only way to put them on the right track is by helping them not by making them feel crazy.

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 11:32PM) : My initial thoughts more

This makes me think about many things and the first thing is this is the beginning of where all those mental problems, desorder and different things may come from and thinking that streaa if it gets out of hand it can become toxic and cause severe problem in the future. And because of that I feel more now that these things should be paid close attention to in a kids because we may never know what may be really happening and if it gets out of hand it can get a lot worse for the child.

RESPECTABILITY POLITICS (4:36 mins)

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 4:19AM) : Vocab more

The new words that I would be using in discussions are articulated meaning expressed/connected and mass incarceration a high rate of imprisonment. I could use these words when trying to get my classmate to evaluate more.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 4:22AM) : Topics more

The topic covered in this video are racisms, mass imprisonment, education ,discriminations, and police brutality.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 4:26AM) : Infomation more

This video just gave me more confirmation of what I already knew like the fact that even a educated black man or woman can experience a form of racism from police and society. I also learnt that you need to be knowledgeable to your surrounding and to take care of your mind. It made me understand why in the Native Son they believed a black man committed the murders and had the help of a white person because they would always look down at black man or female as a less than.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 11:18PM) : Relations or Differences more

I believe that this may differ from Bigger in Native Son because the difference is that Bigger wasn’t an educated black male who always did the right things unlike the one speaking of his experience who was being discriminated once police officers. He felt like since he always did the right things that everything would be great and that there would equality. However in Bigger’s mind he felt the opposite way.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 4:29AM) : Relation more

In both Native Son and this video they talk about racism , level of education and also how police treat the blacks. The difference are that Bigger in the native son could never have had the same opportunity as the speaker as to go to school and becoming a higher rank in society due to the time in the book.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 4:50AM) : Credibility more

I believe that this is a creditable source because the speaker is an activist and went to school for issues like this and this information also came from a news site but this is also a biased video as it is only coming from one person perspective on the issue. He stated something about mass incarceration but nothing about what it was and how it affect the people. He also never explained why you have to protect your heart mind and all the things he stated.

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THE BIRTH OF A NATION (8:15 mins)

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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 11:56PM) : Connections and differences more

One way that this video can be related to the novel Native Son is that to Bigger whne he thought of Black people wild naked savage people came in mind and in the video it made it seem as if the black American were wild and crazy too. A difference is that in the video the ones who suffered where the white people and in the novel it was the black people.

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Joshua Martinez Joshua Martinez (Oct 21 2020 7:51AM) : This documentary flips the story of what happened during the civil war glorifying the KKK and white southern farmers, and showing black Americans as villains. This had a large affect on how white southerners saw black people and the North after the war.
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Emely Contreras Emely Contreras (Oct 21 2020 11:52PM) : Initial thoughts more

I can’t believe that there was really a film that was created and is only filled with lies and racism. I really do noot believe that the whites may have felt scared like the filmed made them look. I the way that the film made the black american look like wild crazy people is really cruel.

GREENWOOD & TULSA RIOTS (3:24 mins)

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 5:14AM) : Vocab more

self-containment -being complete and independent

This is the new word that I leant and would be incorporating into my discussions now

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 5:15AM) : Topics more

White militancy, Riot, Economic Powerful, and Segregation

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 5:22AM) : New Information more

I never knew that Greenwood/Black Wall Street existed. I learnt that the blacks started to get conformable in this area due to the fact that they were gaining some type of independence from it. In the poem we read over the summer about the the rose that grew on concrete it made understand what he meant by changing nature. This meaning that the blacks can rise above in the economy but not as the rose as the riots did ended up destroying everything.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 5:26AM) : Relation more

As I previous stated in question 3 in the poem about the rose that grew on concrete. The rose grew and stood the odds in this video it showed that the blacks tried to be independent and grow business in Greenwood and the difference between the video and poem I that one succeeded an the other didn’t.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 5:28AM) : Credibility more

This is a credible source because it talked about historical event and the information wasn’t biased. The question that were not answered were how did Greenwood even begin and why did it last a long as it did?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yceK9LHFSA

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1919 CHICAGO RACE RIOTS (6:08)

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 7:57PM) : Topics more

Segregation, riots, police

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 7:58PM) : Information Learned more

I learned more about what it was like to live in Chicago, even before the events of Native Son. This information also applies to Black Boy, as Wright had a period in his life where he lived in Chicago, like Bigger.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 8:00PM) : Relations more

The information I learned helps me understand what it was like to live in Chicago around the time Bigger lived there. I can see just how segregated the city was, to a point that a man would be drowned because his raft floated into “white only” water.

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THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE (3:01)

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 3:20PM) : Cultural Revolution more

I plan to use the term “Cultural Revolution” in my discussions more as I feel it accurately describes what was happening during that time.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 6:33AM) : Terms more

I will be using the term Harlem Renaissance which the main topic of this video

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 3:21PM) : Topics more

Cultural revolution, evolution of the arts, music, Jim Crow, migration

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 6:36AM) : The topics that were covered [Edited] more

The topics that were covered were the Harlem Renaissance which included music, and cultural revolution

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 3:30PM) : What I learned more

From watching the video I learned how during the time of the renaissance, the culture of the black community became more prevalent in society despite being previously thought to be non-existent by the white community. I also learned how African American literature became more common than it had been previously, with works by authors such as Langston Hughes being published.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 6:43AM) : Learned more

I learned that music and art was used as a way to help people gain civil and political rights. I also learned that due music the blacks culture were slowly starting to be acknowledged.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 3:31PM) : Similarities and Differences more

In the texts we read, the Harlem renaissance isn’t a prevalent idea. But most of the works we read were likely published during the Harlem Renaissance, such as “Ballad of a Landlord” by Langston Hughes.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 6:48AM) : Relate more

In Native Son their was a lot of segregation and in this video you start to see a change in the interaction between the whites and black.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 3:38PM) : Credibility more

The source seems credible as nothing in it seems biased, as its mostly just a recounting of what happened during the Harlem Renaissance. There is a somewhat limited number of speakers, with at least 2 of them from the same university.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 6:50AM) : Credible more

I believe that this video is credible because it is not bias and it shows different speakers and videos and evidence on the matter

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THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE LITERATURE (3:24)

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 7:05AM) : Vocab more

The new words in which I will be using during discussions is modernism which means a modern character or quality of thought, expression, or technique.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 7:10AM) : Topics more

1. Writers during the Harlem Renaissance
2.Harlem Renaissance

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 7:21AM) : Understand more

I learnt about how how people of that time thought through their poems and writings. It gave be a deeper and better understanding of how Bigger felt about being a black man of that time.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 8:00AM) : Reltions more

In the Native Son and this video they both talking about the black life but in the video they show an upbringing of the black community

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REALISM (3:22)

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 3:46PM) : Realism more

I wasn’t really aware Realism was a genre of writing on its own, and plan to use the term when reading and discussing realistic literature.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 3:47PM) : Topics more

Realism, Civil War, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 3:55PM) : Information Learned more

I learned about Realism Literature and how it was popular around the time of the Civil War. I now know enough about the term to use it to describe texts that we’ve read.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 3:56PM) : Realism more

The topic relates to the texts we have read as a lot of them, such as Native Son and Black Boy, have large elements of realism in there writing as they were based on real experiences.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 20 2020 1:46AM) : #4: Realism more

This video relates to the novel and author a lot because the novel is based of realism. I say this because throughout the novel the author develops the setting and characters to relate to him in the ways he suffered and the ways he had to grow up in. It differs in some way but not a lot.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 4:02PM) : Credibility [Edited] more

The source seems credible as it uses several quotes from writers to support what they are saying. There also aren’t any topics brought up that could really have a bias.

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Student Crystal Aguilera Student Crystal Aguilera (Oct 20 2020 1:32AM) : Initial Response: Realism more

I feel like this topic related a lot to the novel mainly because the novel was so realistic in the ways the characters were developed and everything was in the time period when Wright was alive and since he himself was a victim himself throughout the Great Depression. I feel this way because it was clearly noticeable once I read the biography on Wright and read the book and saw the comparisons between the author’s life and the novel. I choose this video because I wanted to know more on the topic and because I thought it would relate to the novel and which of course it does.

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Joshua Martinez Joshua Martinez (Oct 21 2020 7:34AM) : I agree because, When reading native son you can relate more to bigger and his situation because it showed a more middle class, everyday, realistic point of view for that time period. It was also easy to connect to the story because of the diction used.

TERROR LYNCHING IN AMERICA (5:17)

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 4:14PM) : Disenfranchisement more

Disenfranchisement is when someone is deprived a right or privilege, especially the right to vote. I didn’t know this term before I watched this video and searched up the definition.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 4:15PM) : Topics more

Racially Biased Laws, Disenfranchisement, reconstruction, lynching, south, black migration, racial hierarchy, white supremacy

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 4:19PM) : What I learned more

I learned about just how terrifying it was to live in the South during those times. Watching this video makes it clear why many members of the black community fled the southern parts of the country and amassed in the northern and western cities.

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Anthony Valverde Anthony Valverde (Oct 21 2020 11:25PM) : Information Learned more

This video helps me better understand Native Son and the text we read on “Lynching in America” because it provides me with a visual in which I am able to see how things actually were and at the same time listening to what speaker said. I know better understand how Lynching was in America.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 20 2020 3:50AM) : My Connection more

This is what was going on in Bigger’s time. Not only this but in the “Lynchings in America” text that we were to read it talked about the same thing. Although it went more in-depth about how white people used to sell the dead remains. A black persons ear, foot, toe, even their skin. And still just like in Native Son white people fail to address the problem with what they were doing. They only viewed black people as wrong even if they were innocent

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 4:26PM) : Connections more

This video gave me a better insight into what was going on at the time and helps me understand Bigger’s struggles more that I did before. It’s also helping build on information that I gathered from the “Lynchings in America” text.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 4:27PM) : Credibility more

The source does seem credible although there aren’t many different speakers or sources given. The information doesn’t seemed biased as it is telling the watched about what it was like to live in the South at that time.

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Aiyana Shaw Aiyana Shaw (Oct 20 2020 3:55AM) : My Thoughts more

This isn’t even the half of it. There was more that was going on and it amazes me that I didn’t learn any of this in history class. I didn’t learn that people used to crowd around and watch people be burned alive. I didn’t learn that white Americans used to skin black Americans alive. And even more…

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Joshua Martinez Joshua Martinez (Oct 21 2020 7:21AM) : Even though i know most of the history of what happened during slavery, I still get angry about the fact that what happened in the past impacts today because of our history of racial violence.

RICHARD WRIGHT (4:31)

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 4:46PM) : Topics more

Wright, Black Boy, Native Son

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#3. What information did you learn in the video that helps you better understand Native Son, as well as other texts we’ve read, and videos we’ve seen in this class?

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 4:47PM) : What I Learned more

I learned more about Richard Wright and how Native Son became so popular. Many people back then wanted their voices to be heard but didn’t know how, so Wright did it for them through his writing.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 4:49PM) : Relations more

This video lets me understand why Native Son was so popular and made such a big influence. In contrast to the article on how Baldwin didn’t agree with Native Son, this video tells me how many people found the book important and influencial.

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Alison Michailof Alison Michailof (Oct 21 2020 4:50PM) : Credibility more

The sources seem credible as they are both black and white, but none of the speakers tell why someone could not like what Wright was trying to say with Native Son. All the speakers speak of how Native Son was a positive thing.

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https://youtu.be/aAdM-fueKkY

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RICHARD WRIGHT (8:57)

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 8:12AM) : Vocab more

1.Jim Crow
This is the new words that I would be now using in my discussions.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 8:13AM) : Topic more

There are many different topics but mainly his video was an auto biography on Richard Wright Life.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 8:16AM) : Information more

The new information’s that I learnt were a more descriptive video on Richard Wright life. By understanding his life I was able to better understand Bigger struggle in the text ad why does struggles were included into the text.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 8:31AM) : Relate more

In native son Bigger stops school in the eight grade due to the lack of money and how it was no going to benefit him and that what Richard Wright also did. The difference is that Richard Wright had a goal to do better while Bigger didn’t and was just trying to manage to get by.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 8:21AM) : Not credible more

I believe that this is not a credible source because it is an autobiography and there were people talking about his life that weren’t introduced or credible. There were also many questions that were left un answered mainly about what happened after he was 29. They didn’t continue the autobiography, which makes me wonder if all their information is true or not.

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JAMES BALDWIN ON THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA (8:04)

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 9:31AM) : Vocabulary [Edited] more

Chattel- personal property
Black Pagan
Tacit Cooperation
These are the words that I will be using in my future Discussions.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 9:35AM) : Topic more

The main topic of this video is how black are seen and how their experience in the eyes of James Baldwin

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 9:53AM) : Information more

I learnt that blacks being evil and white being saved is a thread. That segregations is a national problem that has been happening for hundred of years. That the negro are always at the bottom and that is the way of life in he U.S.

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 9:39AM) : Relation more

They both show the struggles to be black in one person perspective. They are different because they took place in different times and had different experience with the whites also James Baldwin look more educated than Bigger.

#5. Analyze the credibility of this source. What are some (potential) biases? Who are the speakers and sources used? What gives these speakers and sources credibility? Are there any issues with relevance or reliability? What are some holes, limitations, and/or questions that were not answered in this video?

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Sonia Taylor Sonia Taylor (Oct 22 2020 9:22AM) : Credible more

Not creditable because it isn’t bias and most of what is said can’t be proven. How does the viewer know that he isn’t just saying this just because or that the information is valid

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