Vocabulary: The national housing act of 1934: a part of the new deal that introduced ideas like 30 year mortgage and low fixed interest rates. Fair housing act of 1968: policy meant to encourage equal housing opportunities; passed after MLK’s assassination. redlining. In future discussions on systematic oppression, I’d like to talk about housing segregation impacts.

New vocabulary that I learned were distressed areas, housing segregation, The National Housing Act of 1934, Homeowners Loan cooperation (HOLC), residential security maps, and redline. I plan on incorporating low interest in my discussion when I’m talking about history.

Some new vocabulary that I learned are the Homeowners Loan Corporation, The National Housing Act of 1934, the Fair Housing Act of 1968, and redlining. I could incorporate these terms into my discussions when someone tries to tell me to get over racism, so I can explain how racism affects everything aroubd us.

Some of the new vocabulary I learned and plan to use in my vocabulary from now on is distressed, redlined neighborhoods, and explicitly forbid.

A few new things I heard in the video were distressed areas,redline housing segregation, Homeowner’s Loan corporation (HOLC), The National Housing Act of 1934, and residential security maps. I can use these words to help explain what happened in these times in the correct terms and making it easier to understand.

I learned the national housing law of 1934,covenants, fair housing act. Redlining is a word used quite frequently in the video.

I have learned that the National Housing Act was passed to help low income people to afford home with low fixed interests rates. Home loaners corporation made residential security map. I could use this vocabulary when talking about how the government makes it harder for people getting low income to make it out because of how and what they are surrounded by such as schools, policing, and health.

1.) New vocabulary terms and jargon that I saw in this video were the Home-Owners’ Loan Corporation and redlining, which seem to work together. Redlining was designated as areas where Blacks lived as hotspots to be avoided. This corporation was one of the first companies to establish redlining, which was where Negroes were forced into low-cost residential areas and not provided loans so they could not buy homes. Using colors to create residential security maps, areas in Baltimore and other cities were separated based on a person’s color and personal income to keep them in specific locations. The New Deal and The Fair Housing Act designed to help persons recover from the depression were not used to help Blacks and other low-income persons to improve their lives. I will include connections of this to what relates to our readings for class. Also, testimonials, a new vocabulary word I learned, are useful in the video to help explain the struggles and problems they were forced to cope with. Testimonials are effective because they give different perspectives from people who may have different experiences in a setting. My viewing of this video will definitely help me in class discussions.

the National Housing act of 1934,HOLC,FHS,Residential security map, Redlining, fair housing act all these terms play and in important part in explaining what happened

Topics covered in this video include: The New Deal, MLK’s assassination, The Fair Housing act of 1968, The National Housing act of 1934, segregation, and the impacts of segregational housing.

Some topics that were discussed were discrimination in health, school, police, and wealth. The video also talked about The National Housing Act of 1934 and the Fair housing act of 1968.

Some of the topics in the video are redlining, The Fair Housing Act of 1968, The National Housing act of 1934.

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Special profiling

The main topics covered in the video are the proposed New Deal that FDR came up with. Different societal classes were also mentioned. Segregation and the National Housing act was also mentioned along with the assassination of MLK

Some topics that were mentioned in the video was The New Deal, The National Housing act of 1934 The Fair Housing act of 1968, and how housing impacted segregation.

In this video the main topics are redlining, racism, american life, and violence. The redlining is kind of the cause of the other issues highlighted throughout the video.

Topics covered were redlining, and housing and how people are segregated by it. The video also talks about how the government views housing and how they group people.

2.) Some other topics that were covered in this video are The New Deal, four main subjects of schools, health, wealth, and policing, criminal justice, housing discrimination, and the National Housing Act.

I learned a lot of information in this video like how segregation and redlining contributed to external factors in the black community; like increased risks for asthma and other underlying health conditions. I also learned about redlining and how areas were divided on wealth, and race. This helps me better understand the segregation presented in Native Son. I remember when bigger was on the run and the police were looking for him, they had a map of the segregated areas and places that they figured he’d be. Like red areas. I got a chance to better understand Native Son and the impact of segregation in it.

I learned that for colored people, it is harder for them to succeed because they are constantly being put down by laws and regulations that make it harder for them to breathe. When considering Native son I understand why it was so hard for Bigger to come clean when he was in Mary’s room. I understand why he had to keep on running even though it was an accident. I understand but I don’t accept his actions.

I understand how white people used every method possible to stop black people from being successful. This helps me better understand Native Son and the clear difference between the blacks and the whites.

I learned that because only the voices of the white people were heard, they had the most advantage in life. Black people were punished and even killed when they tried to stand up for themselves so it was nearly if not impossible to succeed in any way. Their opportunities were very limited.

This helps me better understand the environment that Bigger lived in since he wasn’t fortunate in living in a house that in not in the red zone. This also helps knowing how the government thinks of certain areas that are constantly being discriminated against.

This helps me understand Bigger´s situation and how he might have been in danger because of where he lived. Now that I have watched the video, I see that Bigger was showing most fear when he was in his own community instead of the Dalton´s. This may have been because of the murder but some of it might be because of where he lived. Even when the murder is being put aside, Bigger was scared to rob the store. This may have been because of the policing in the community he was in.

3.) Well, I feel that what I learned in this video will mostly help me better understand Native Son as well as other texts we have read. Important are the impacts of segregation, what the residential security maps represented, and how the type of neighborhood one was forced to live in could impact a person’s entire life. I can apply what I learned knowing that Bigger lived in a segregated neighborhood with only his colored relatives and friends which impacted how he related to other people. Moreover, I am struck by the maps that represented colors that showed the areas of wealth to poverty. I know Bigger lived in a red area (redlined) which is the worse area of all. I know how to better explain the living conditions and struggles Bigger faced. Lastly, I really understand how Bigger felt in some situations within his neighborhood. The schools, housing, policing, and health problems around the neighborhood affected Bigger in many ways. Bigger never had many opportunities and he never found success within in his neighborhood.

I can relate this video with texts that we’ve read like Native Son. There were impacts on segregation presented in both of these works. Like in this video, in Native Son towns were divided (redlining) and in black areas goods,produce, and homes were higher in price even though black people had less jobs because of the lack of opportunities presented within the black community. However they also do differ; this video talked about segregational impacts on health like increased risks for asthma, and other underlying health conditions, but in Native Son, and in other texts that we’ve read in class, this topic wasn’t talked about.

This video relates to many texts including Native son because it talks about racism and the unjust separation that was caused by laws. This video is different from Native son because Native son didn’t have the opportunity to buy houses and could only live in a run down apartment because they were broke.

This video relates to Native Son because they both deal with the impacts of segregation and racism. Racism had a large impact on the characters. In both the video and the book, black people are presented with fewer opportunities and bad living conditions. But no health-related topics were brought up in the book.

This video helps me better to understand Native Son by identifying how one cause can affect on one in a multitude of different aspects . I’m not just referring to the color of ones skin , but deeper how the color of ones skin determines their fate . This video relates to our text Native son because a lot of the issues present in Baltimore occurred for Bigger Thomas , which further magnifies taut it doesn’t matter where you come from , colored people will always have to struggle. In Baltimore , blacks are placed in restricting area taut lack resources such as water and sanitation , and were surrounded by rat infestation , the exact same way Bugger Thomas was forced to live in Native Son. Bigger a Thomas also lacked education , Hence the reason he did not take the same oath as Dalton’s former employee . As discussed in the video , less education brings lower income . This video further confirmed the injustices of colored people. In terms of police activity , it’s ironic that Bugger killed those two women to feel trusting of himself , almost incredible because he was dangerous . The video started how black people are forced to find other means of living and survival when they can’t trust the authority the same way Bigger did.

I personally relate the video to Native son and Hunger because of the lack of opportunities and poverty faced among the black communities. Especially when new laws were made to “help” but only helped a certain number of people and not everyone.

I can compare this video and Native Son because both poverty areas are majority people of color. These are the people that are discriminated most. The is created by the housing act which leads to the segregation present in Native Son.

THis comment helps with understanding the type of financial situation that the Thomas family was in. It helps in understanding why they lived the way they did and where they lived.

The video talks about how the government, which was most likely majority white, influences how people look at minority groups. The video shows how people in the red area are more likely to be convicted of crimes. This makes minority groups look terrible. This is why people in these groups didn’t get the same treatment as high income people. The people in the text are those minority groups. The governments makes them be portrayed worse than they actually are because of what they can afford rather than helping them afford what others who might be more privileged can. This relates to how Bigger might have wanted to be a pilot but couldn’t because of where he was and how he was looked at. This can also relate to lynching. Rape is terrible of course but some people who were convicted really didn’t do it. It is sad how they can be killed because of where they lived. Race was also influencing lynching but I am not sure if it would be the same if the person was making as much money or had the same education as a high income person.

this video relates to the text because both are showing the impacts of those acts the were passed for example in the beginning of the book when bigger’s living place was being described it the same that is described in the video small, and low in value in bad neighborhood that were overly policed

I’d say that this source is credible. It presented laws and acts passed and how their implementations had affects on the black community. This source also had use of subject based terminology so it shows that the source knows the subject and what they’re talking about. The biases could be people used in the video to present their experiences; they’re being presented from their perspectives as black people in previously segregated areas; but their opinions also give us a better understanding of what these areas are like from a first-handed perspective. There were statistics presented in this video also, so their is indeed evidence listed to support the videos argument. There aren’t any issues of reliability within this video that I have for this video. All of my questions that I had in this video were answered by this video therefore I have none.

They only interviewed black people and no other race which creates a bias towards other races. Another bias would be that they only interview a limited about of people that does not represent a sample of Baltimore. The sources that were used are John Hopkins University, city lab, ProPublica, and Baltimore city health department, 2011. These sources are credible because they are not biased and work to provide true information. There is no issues with relevance or reliability. A question that was not answered was has housing separation has improved or changed in any way.

I believe that this source is credible. They used unbiased information and charts to support their argument. They interviewed some black people, who shared their perspective. They used relevant sources and there are no issues with reliability.

This source is credible because it touches base on different time periods to show an occurrence of segregation over a course of time emphasizing that it is a major issue. Residences of black homes were interviewed to further justify this .

I believe that although it may seem biased because the speaker was a black person, its still credible. I think it is still credible because they were the affected people so their point of view should also be valid

I feel as if this video is a bit bias because the interviewed people were all black and lived in the red zone rather than mixing it up a little. Yes, there is a sample size needed but they were all from the same area leading to bad thoughts rather than seeing the whole side of it. The sources that were used to gather information were not the most credible sources to use. As a viewer I question if they interviewed those people specifically or if they were paid to say what they say. There is a lot of questions that can come up with the credibility of the source. I still believe it is credible but there is a bias side to it

The video creates more of a background to what was happening at the time. The book doesn’t explore this topic to the extent of the video it just passively discusses it in the beginning.

I think that the video was credible in that it was clearly stated facts, backed by public information from the area and time period. The mixture of secondary and primary sources makes it credible. The potential biases could be in the part where they discuss the impacts of the redlining.

I think the source is credible. The video does not show sources but it give time periods when the laws are made. NPR is a .org website which means it is non profit. There is some bias because of the people being interviewed. The limitations are that there’s very few people being talked to which might not be enough to represent the area. The title is relevant to what the speaker talks about. I think it might not be the most credible source there is but NPR definitely gives it some credibility.

I believe that this source is credible because I provides a valid argument and give information such as charts, maps, and number to support what they were saying and also many people were interviewed in the video.

I plan to incorporate “racial wealth gap”, “median white household health”. I feel like these phrases would bring up a good discussion to talk about important economical factors within the black community.

New vocabulary that I learned was the title of the video racial wealth gap and compound interest. I plan to use the racial wealth gap whenever I’m having a discussion about the effect of racism on blacks.

Some new vocabulary that I learned is the racial wealth gap and compound interest. I could use this in a discussion where white people try to say that black people are making excuses and we all have equal opportunities.

Some new terms I can use it the racial wage gap, median white household health, compound interest, and mortgage market. I would use this when financing comes into play with the discussion on a book or a text that we read.

1.) New vocabulary terms and jargon that I saw in the video were the racial health gap, housing, and redlining. The racial health gap prevented the chance for equality in the country in which Native Son talks a lot about inequality for African Americans. This video talked about housing and how it plays a key role in ones’ opportunities in life or in that community. The type of housing Bigger witnessed was well explained in this video. It gave me an idea of how Bigger struggled in a neighborhood that had no room for success. Redlining was a huge impact because white people could refuse to live in an area that contained African Americans and low income people. It was also shown on maps who were parts of the redlined community. Bigger Thomas lived in a redlined neighborhood because they actually had to pay more money than what the whites paid for rent. These vocabulary words will serve to expand my knowledge of what is happening in many communities in our country today.

Compounding interest is money you get from putting money into something else. I could used this to show how the people with wealth, which were mostly white people, could build their money easier than other who may have not had that money to begin with.

Some of the new vocabulary I learned was synonymous, racial wealth gap, and housing discrimination.

Topics covered in this video include racial wealth gaps, the economy, slavery, and relining.

Some topics that were covered in this video were the effects of slavery upon black people, why the gap between blacks and white is so large, and last but not least why recreation is needed.

Some of the topics covered in the video are the racial wealth gap and the effects of slavery on the economy.

SOme topics that were mentioned were the racial wealth gap, compound interest, housing, and loans.

2.) Some topics covered in this video are racial health gap, housing, subprime loans, wealth gap and the median for both Black and white households.

I would like to incorporate the words racial wealth gap in the conversation. backlash, and compounding interest.

Laws, land, and generational wealth are huge drivers in this video. The generational wealth part is really the catalyst for the impacts and effects that come from the large gap. The profit of slavery is another supporter of generational wealth as well.

The topics covered were the wage gap, discrimination because of race, and discrimination when it came to housing.

The main topics were the racial wealth gap between black and white people, how their wealth changed after education.

This video helps me understand "Hunger’ by Richard Wright. It makes me understand how truly hard it was For the main character. Why the mother always pushed her son to get ‘thicker skin’ because she was trying to help him. Also even Native Son, where Mr. Dalton didn’t really care for how his prices were higher for black people in his facilities. This video explained why and went in depth on the discrimination of black people.

I learned that the racial gap between blacks and whites is too large, that blacks wouldn’t be able to catch up unless a miracle happens. This helps me understand why Biggers family was so poor and unable to make a decent amount of money.

This information can be applied to Native Son, where black people were constantly being discriminated against. The white people always had the money and power, leaving the colored people very poor with no opportunities.

This video helps understand why it is truly hard for the black boys that we’ve read to build their foundation and go onto to live out of poverty. This video shows how the wage cap is very big making it hard for black people to even pay for anything. The video also showed how hard it is for black people to buy a house that will then grow in profit over time.

3.) What I learned from this video mainly that helps me gain a better understanding of Native Son and other texts is that many money gaps affect African Americans and how the government has interfered with some of the African American freedoms. The racial health gap, and racial wealth gap had huge impacts on how Blacks lived and how Blacks struggled. Those gaps favored whites and gave whites more advantages and less struggles unlike African Americans. Bigger’s family had to pay more for rent than a white family which makes the gap grow like as shown in the video. The government established laws and rights that prevented African Americans from doing certain things that whites were able to do. There are many examples that show how Bigger was prevented from do certain things because of his race.

It helps me understand how Bigger might have trouble obtaining money whereas Mr Dalton was rich and is only getting richer. Bigger was in a terrible start because of his race and it isn’t his fault for the most part if he didn’t get a job or if he didn’t get a job that can make as much as a white person.

This video focuses on the time during and after native son. This focuses on the housing problems which was highlighted in the way that the thomas family lived versus the difference of the dalton family home and where they live.

Some of the information I learned was how hard it is to make money as a black family and it will be worse with kids which helps me understand the difficulty of the boy in “Hunger”.

I relate this to Ballad of the Landlord by Langston Hughes. How there main character lived in such a bad environment and kept on telling the Landlord to fix it and was completely ignored. Which the video shows happened during this time period as well. Black people needed help and weren’t given any.

This video relates to a theme in “hunger” that blacks are always hungry for social justice and to get their freedom back. Because this video talks about wealth and the wealth gap between blacks and whites, it relates to hunger because that is what blacks are suffering from so they are trying to find a way out but to no avail, leaving them still hungry.

This video relates to the Ballad of the Landlord and Native Son. The was a clear difference between the rich and the poor in each of them.

This video relates to the first one in kind of explaining that goes into the redlining issue and that feeds into the generational wealth later down the line.

This relates to Ballad of the Landlord becuase after many request of fixing up everything that needed to be fixed the landlord constantly denied it and did not help. This does not help them by having a suitable environment to live in and this also doesn’t help the property to grow in profit.

In the video it talks about how black people were most like to get help by other people in the family who have a job or graduated. Bigger had a job and his check was split into 20 and 5 dollars.20 dollars would go to his family and he could keep the 5. Mr Dalton however, had less priorities to give money to. He donated money. Donations are optional but Bigger had the necessity to give money to his family. Of course Bigger was making less money than Mr Dalton which was because of the different jobs they could have had but even then, Bigger had to provide for his family.

Both this video and the redlining video follow the same generational wealth conversation which is very important to the native son discussion. This one focuses more on that generational wealth aspect.

I think this relates to “Hunger” alot because of the financial problems that were faced in the text.

This source seems very credible. Primary resources have been presented and so have previous laws and etc. The sources used to complete research for this video may be biased. So the credibility of this website isn’t certain.

A potential bias would be that they mostly use sources from surveys and not something else. The speakers are Mehrsa Baradaran, Cory Booker, Thomas Shapiro, and Beth Jacobson. Some of the sources used are urban institute/ survey of consumer finances, 2016 dollars, Edward Wolff/ survey of consumer finances, 2016, and roger ransom and Richard such. There is no issue of reliability. A question that hasn’t been answered is why have we still not received the 40 acres of land.

This source is credible. This source used relevant information and surveys. They used laws and clips of famous people to support their argument.

5.) This source is credible. I don’t feel there was bias in this video because it included African American and other white perspectives. The video used a lot of symbolisms to show how segregation and discrimination have made life hard for blacks throughout history. The passing of the balls show how terrible living conditions for blacks during slavery continued to be passed on to make life miserable for many blacks, even today. At the same time, one can see how some Blacks were able to survive and even excel as shown through Blacks like Jesse Owens and others who have excelled. I did not see limitations in this video which presented facts, artifacts like confederate money showing blacks working as slaves on plantations, and various testimonials.

I feel like this source is very credible. They have interviewed someone that had his dad go through the trouble in buying a house and they also had a woman that had her parents buy a house very cheap and easily to it now being worth around $600,000 alongside other people being interviewed. This shows both sides of the spectrum and how bad it really was. There will alway be a bit of bias in the sources used in the video. Overall I feel like this is a credible video.

The source is credible. There are so many voices from people. They also use primary sources which show racial wealth gap. There might be bias but they still look at how the other people would think if they didn’t agree with them.

This video could be biased toward the black community, it also doen’t explain why that fragility between black and white happens when black people are granted rights. The video does do a good job of its sourcing having multiple testimonials of things that happened and when they occured.

I believe this source is actually credible because of their resources used to give the information provided.

Vocabulary: Acclaim: Praise enthusiastically and publicly. Voracious: having a very eager approach to an activity.
Jargon: Capitalism, Communist
Words and phrases I plan to incorporate into my discussions now: “fell prey to bouts of poverty”, Depicts, Disillusioned. These words sound very meaningful and persuading.

Some new vocabulary that I learned are acclaim, disillusioned, and voracious. I might use these words in a discussion about Richard Wright.

The new vocabulary that I learned was the Federal Writer’s Party. I plan to incorporate American capitalist in my vocabulary when I’m talking about America.

1.) New vocabulary terms and jargon that I plan to incorporate in my writing after reading this Biography are sharecropping, communism, and circumstances of the Great Depression. Sharecropping is giving part of one’s profits for raising crops on rented land. Communism, which is mentioned a lot in Native Son, is a key word that I will be using from now on in discussions. I can understand better why communism was a key theme for character development in Native Son. The Great Depression was an economic situation with the stock market crash in the 1920 to 11930s which was during the time of Bigger Thomas. These vocabulary words help me have a better understanding of how to ask questions on Native Son to gain more insights into the novel. Also, they help me to better understand and discuss Native Son which seems to include references to Wright’s family life and the poverty associated with the Thomas family.

Expatriate is a person living outside their native country. Disillusioned means to be disappointed in someone or something that wasn’t as expected. I don’t think I will use this that much in a discussion but I can see myself using these words in future conversations. Maybe I can use disillusioned to describe how Richard Wright felt but that’s about it.

the federal writers project, jim crow south, communist party, naturalistic fiction were some interesting words and phrases I had picked up from the biography.

Some of the new vocabulary I learned and plan to add to my future discussions are the words delved, plow, acclaim, and disillusioned.

Topics covered in this video include Communisms, poverty, black economic oppression, and literature.

Some of the topics that were covered were his childhood, poverty, oppression, and books.

Some topics that were covered in this passage were who was Richard wright, his early life, his commercial and critical successes, and his later years and career.

Topics covered in this passage include slavery , and poverty as Richard Wright was the grandson of salves and lived in a single parent home with his mother without support. Discrimination is also covered in this text as blacks were not allowed to access library cards , so they had to go to whites to access their benefits .

2.) Some topics that were covered in this passage were communism and how Wright felt it would have taken pressure off of him through a better lifestyle. Also, I would say limited opportunities were talked about in this passage. It seems that most of what Richard Wright experienced relates to what Bigger Thomas faced in Native Son except that Wright built on his struggles to create a better life for himself.

The topics covered were Richard Wright early life, the communist party, success in publishing and after his publishings.

The main topic throughout is RIchard Wright’s life and accomplishments. There is also hints at communism WW2 and his books and their basic info.

Topics covered are education, dreams and goals, and careers along with success.

After reading this passage, I got to better understand Native Son. Richard Wrights was a direct descendant of slaves and was only able to get up yo a 9th grade education. he also faced economic struggles. Wrights experiences as a black man during this time period influenced Native Son. So we can assume that he wrote Bigger’s persona, based on his own. This made me see Bigger in a different perspective. I found more out about Richard Wright, and I could tell that Native Son was influenced by his beliefs. This book really taught me what it was like during that time period.

I think that this passage gives some context to Richard Wrights’s feelings about being a back man during this time period. A lot of his background can be seen in characters like Bigger.

In light of this text, I now understand why Richard wright incorporated the communist party in Native son. In Native Son, he made the communist party seem like the right way to go and now I understand why he did this. I also have a better understanding of why he wrote Black boy, to show that his “life count[ed] for something”.

Understanding Richard Wright’s background and who he is as an individual helps to shed light in his written works . Paying close attention to his accomplishments throughout life helps to better understand the characters presented in the text as Bugger Thomas for example was a direct representation of poor Black Men in not only Chicago , but everywhere . Understanding Bigger Thomas in Native son shows what hardships every Richard Wright had to face himself without directly vocalizing all that he went through so he demonstrated it in his writing . For example , Bigger Thomas didn’t have much of any education and Richard Wright didn’t have any more than a ninth grade education . However I think it’s ironic that Richard weight wrote about these black man dominated by white oppression but he himself were much different than these characters . He fought the same fight but he accomplished so much . This shows that blacks can accomplish things , it’s not impossible .

3.) Information that I learned mainly that will help me better understand Native Son is what Richard Wright’s life was like. I know there had to be many reasons why Richard Wright wrote this book. Since I know that there are many connections with what happened in Richard Wright’s life and Bigger Thomas life, it helps me understand how I should be analyzing the novel.

The communism reminds me of the character jan from his book. It seems as though part of native son was a reflection of Richard Wright’s life. He used his own characteristics to influence native son’s narrative.

His biography can definitely show what has influenced him to right the book such as falling into poverty and communism. It helps me understand why he talked about the communist party which wasn’t really clear to me at first. I understand how he incorporated his feelings into a book which was a little bit related to him.

I learned that the author of Native Son actually relates to bigger in a couple ways and he is the little boy in “Hunger”.

The relates to Native Son. Bigger and Richard Wright were very similar. Both grew up in single mother households, only went up to a 8th/9th grade education, were black men in America, and faced financial hardships because of them being black men in America. Also both men were involved in communism somewhat. However the two differ; Wright never gave up on himself, he had a passion, had a goal, strived to get there, found an opportunity and made himself useful. Wright was successful. On the other hand, Bigger had no goals, so strive to achieve anything, he had a opportunity— but took advantage of it and did not make himself useful. Bigger and Wright are in many ways similar, and in many ways different.

This passage relates to Native Son in various ways. The author and Bigger both struggled through poverty and never got to finish their education. They both had single mothers raising them. Wright was presented an opportunity and became successful, unlike Bigger.

This text relates to Native son and Hunter from Black boy because the text is about the author and this life growing up. His book, Native son talks about a boy living in segregation and this text also talks about segregation. This text differs because he didn’t go through the same thing as bigger when it came down to running away from the police because he had killed someone.

THe difference is that in the videos the problems at the time have been fully examined and Richard wrights books bring a more interesting take to the same time period and how the primary source can become muddied because the whole picture has not been explored.

This definitely relates to Native Son because he lived how Bigger lived with some differences. He was raised in poverty with a single mother and didn’t have a full education. I am not sure if the part where he expatriates was supposed to be something that related to Native Son but Bigger did have the idea to move somewhere else besides the place he was currently living in.

This relates alot to “Hunger” because he talks about himself and some challenges he has faced as a child and growing up which he also does in “Hunger” but more in detail.

I guess one could say that this source is credible. It’s a biography therefore the author of it had to do their research on Wright in order to write this Biography on him. This was written from a 3rd person perspective and based of what I’ve read there are no biases nor potential ones, everything stated here is strictly facts. However, we don’t know where the author of this Biography obtained their sources, therefore we really can’t tell if this is reliable or not.

This source seems credible. The source is unbiased and the sources used are cited at the bottom, meaning that they did research. We don’t really know if those sources are reliable though.

This source is credible. The biography isn’t opinionated or thesis based so there really isn’t for for bias information. It simply outlines the author Richard Wrights life which leads to the readers analysis and opinion on his texts. I think this is why the source is also credible because it isn’t opinionated but includes enough information for a readers analysis in order to make our own inferences but is still very insightful and information based .

A potential bias would be that Richard Wright didn’t write this biography himself. The speaker is the person and no sources were stated. One thing that gives this source credibility is the fact that they say they aim for “accuracy and fairness” but other than that this source cannot be trusted even though the information seems correct. A limitation would be not listing where they got their information from.

5.) This source is not credible. It gives an incomplete understanding of how life was for Richard Wright and what events happened in his lifetime. I know that some people may have different perspectives and opinions on what happened in Richard Wright’s biography. The limitations are we do not know who or where the writer got their information. Therefore, I feel you should find historians who knew about Richard Wright’s life in more detail. This is even though I noted the author used imagery freely to characterize Wright. This includes phrases like “forged notes”, “Plowed through books”, and “Delved into literature” to show how determine Wright was.

potential bias could be in the lack of exploration into Richard Wright’s communist beliefs, and how he got into it. Although brief it does try to cover all of his life. The text has very little wording in the field of emotions which could mean that there isn’t an abundance of bias in the text.

I don’t think the source is credible but it might have some facts in it. There were no sources in and there were no specific people mentions writing the source. The website also has ads. It might be biased because there was a link where people can contact the author if something was wrong. The source also speaks about communism which can definitely be opinion based.

I think the source is credible because it is a biography and it gives facts instead of opinions.

Vocabulary: Excoriate: censure or criticize severely. Debased: reduced in quality or value. Words I intend to incorporate into future discussions include: elicit, tenanted, grotesque. These words sound complex and of importance.

Some vocabulary that I learned are Debased, tenanted, and grotesque. I could incorporate this into a discussion.

The new vocabulary I learned was resonance, grotesque, and mammies. I plan to use the word blackness to uplift the word and myself.

Some of the new vocabulary that I learned is grotesque, excoriated, and transcend. Words I want to add to my vocabulary in particular are grotesque and excoriated because they’re simple words with large meaning.

1.) New vocabulary and jargon that I learned from reading this excerpt are transcend, excoriate, circumscribed, and ungenerous. Transcend means to succeed, surpass, and excel. Excoriate means to criticize or disapprove. Circumscribed means to restrict within a limit. Ungenerous means selfishness and jealously. These words will improve my vocabulary in Native Son class discussions and other activities as well as broaden my use of words. The hope that whites would work tom improve situations for Blacks after reading the novel did not happen. The novel created fears of Blacks instead.

The exaggeration of characters, political action, Bigger Thomas, and segregation are some vocabulary brought up in her writing.

Robust means to be strong and healthy. Bleak means to be exposed to. I can use these words to describe what the author says is the opposite of Bigger and what the author thinks of Richard Wright.