BUILDING OUR KNOWLEDGE BASE
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HOUSING SEGREGATION AND REDLIING IN AMERICA (6:36 mins) [REQUIRED]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FBJyqfoLM
RACIAL WEALTH GAP (16:12) [REQUIRED]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqrhn8khGLM
RICHARD WRIGHT BIO [REQUIRED]
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https://www.biography.com/writer/richard-wright
Richard Wright Biography (1908–1960)
UPDATED:SEP 15, 2020 ORIGINAL:FEB 17, 2018
Pioneering African American writer Richard Wright is best known for the classic texts 'Black Boy' and 'Native Son.
Who Was Richard Wright?
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.
Early Life
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.
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.
Chicago, New York and the Communist Party
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.
Commercial and Critical Successes
Uncle Tom's Children
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.
Native Son
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.
Black Boy
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.
Later Years and Career
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)
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM EXCERPT [REQUIRED]
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By Ayana Mathis and Pankaj Mishra Feb. 24, 2015
By Ayana Mathis
I don’t imagine many black people would have embraced such a grotesque portrait of themselves.
Ayana Mathis
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Illustration by R. Kikuo Johnson
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.
“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.
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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CHILDREN IN PERSISTENT POVERTY (5:47 mins)
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MALADAPTIVE COPING MECHANISMS (2:31)
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SCHOOLS & SOCIAL INEQUALITY (11:26 mins)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYMk3Bk08NA
ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (9:17 mins)
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RESPECTABILITY POLITICS (4:36 mins)
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THE BIRTH OF A NATION (8:15 mins)
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GREENWOOD & TULSA RIOTS (3:24 mins)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yceK9LHFSA
1919 CHICAGO RACE RIOTS (6:08)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dktk8nr8IhI&t=1s
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE (3:01)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gboEyrj02g
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE LITERATURE (3:24)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nea0rMpolNE
REALISM (3:22)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTOnDOkqp3o
TERROR LYNCHING IN AMERICA (5:17)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS61QFzk2tI&t=5s
RICHARD WRIGHT (4:31)
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RICHARD WRIGHT (8:57)
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JAMES BALDWIN ON THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA (8:04)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Some of the new vocabulary I learned and plan to use in my vocabulary from now on is distressed, redlined neighborhoods, and explicitly forbid.
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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.
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I learned the national housing law of 1934,covenants, fair housing act. Redlining is a word used quite frequently in the video.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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Topics covered in this video include Segregation, Education , wealth , poverty , injustices , racial and discrimination. Further detailed topics that discuss the outline of the unjust racial system include the New Deal leading up to the National Housing act of 1934 organized to produce economic relief . This implied 30 year mortgages and fixed interest rates .
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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4.) This video relates to videos and texts like Native Son because many of the events that happened in this video are reflected in Native Son. The main similarities were the impacts of segregation in which both this video and Native Son had a way of separating people based on their color. They all showed the way races were separated mainly based on their color and income. The videos differed, though, because some of the ways they described segregation were different from what we see in Native Son. The video talked about health segregation which is not mentioned in Native Son. The novel, Native Son, talks more about schools and education, income, wealth, and policing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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5.) The source is credible. The video shows a knowledge of the subject and what was really going on at that time and it relates civil rights violations happening then to what is happening now. The theme was use of redlining to keep Blacks at the lowest level of society. I would say one bias would be that the testimonials used in this video were from Black people only. It is like the Blacks are thrown away and no one else cares which is a point that the video made. This source provided a different outlook on how I see segregation and how I will be looking at neighborhoods and communities around me. Again, I feel the major limitation was not getting different perspectives on this subject from other races and only providing a sampling of testimonials. However, the persons providing testimonials stood in areas with dilapidated backgrounds that were good settings for their complaints about their terrible living conditions to add to the credibility of the video.
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This video was excellent. I feel more knowledgeable about how ones’ neighborhood or community has an effect on one’s success and opportunities in life. Also, after looking at this video, I feel a sense of despair knowing that one cooperation started a system that divided Black, Brown, and white people into groups of well-off thru not well off persons to keep the dream of owning a home away from the Blacks. I don’t feel good that this forced African Americans into low cost housing areas to impact their schools, education, police protection and their health. I know this will help me have a better idea about the circumstances in Native Son. I feel also this information will help me have a better, more creative, and effective questions and discussions with other persons.
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I didn’t know about this beforehand so I was surprised that this happened. I had heard information colored people not able to get certain houses in certain areas and now I understand why.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Some of the new vocabulary I learned was synonymous, racial wealth gap, and housing discrimination.
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Topics covered in this video include racial wealth gaps, the economy, slavery, and relining.
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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.
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Some of the topics covered in the video are the racial wealth gap and the effects of slavery on the economy.
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SOme topics that were mentioned were the racial wealth gap, compound interest, housing, and loans.
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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.
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I would like to incorporate the words racial wealth gap in the conversation. backlash, and compounding interest.
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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.
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The topics covered were the wage gap, discrimination because of race, and discrimination when it came to housing.
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The main topics were the racial wealth gap between black and white people, how their wealth changed after education.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think this relates to “Hunger” alot because of the financial problems that were faced in the text.
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4.) This video relates to texts and videos like Native Son because it explains the true meaning behind the money gaps and how the government has certain restrictions that do not allow Blacks to do certain things during slavery, even though Bigger was not living in slavery times. This video relates to Native Son because both talk about how Blacks were not treated with equality, and how African Americans had to pay more than whites even if white were wealthier than they were. Both the video and Native Son differ because the video explains more about how wealth impacted household of Blacks and how slaves were the wealth that whites needed because they ran the plantations. Native Son was more into the inequality that Black households had because of low paying jobs, and lack of education.
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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.
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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.
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This source is credible. This source used relevant information and surveys. They used laws and clips of famous people to support their argument.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I believe this source is actually credible because of their resources used to give the information provided.
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Communist party in 1932 as well as the Federal Writers project in 1937 new terms that i learned . I plan to incorporate these term in discussion when I talk about discrimination and oppression , because as a black man with this type of title under your belt , I can infer that life wasn’t easy but Richard Wright had an upper hand or advantage to most blacks , but he understood the way of life.
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This video really was interesting and spectacular. I did not know wealth was that impactful in that period for slaves. Slaves did not just represent wealth in America, they were wealth for white people. I felt that our race was used to make plantation owners wealthy, then when we were freed, we were still poor. It is amazing that African Americans are twice as unlikely as white Americans to get certain loans. I really think that this video helped me gain a better understanding of how wealth played a key factor in early American history and how laws formed by the government held Blacks back from some freedoms that were going to be given to them. A lot of this video relates to the segregation shown in Native Son.
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I didn’t even know that Blacks and Whites had wealth rap so this whole video was a shocked to me.
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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.
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Some new vocabulary that I learned are acclaim, disillusioned, and voracious. I might use these words in a discussion about Richard Wright.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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the federal writers project, jim crow south, communist party, naturalistic fiction were some interesting words and phrases I had picked up from the biography.
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Some of the new vocabulary I learned and plan to add to my future discussions are the words delved, plow, acclaim, and disillusioned.
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Topics covered in this video include Communisms, poverty, black economic oppression, and literature.
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Some of the topics that were covered were his childhood, poverty, oppression, and books.
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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The topics covered were Richard Wright early life, the communist party, success in publishing and after his publishings.
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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.
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Topics covered are education, dreams and goals, and careers along with success.
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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.
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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.
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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”.
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I learned that the author of Native Son actually relates to bigger in a couple ways and he is the little boy in “Hunger”.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think the source is credible because it is a biography and it gives facts instead of opinions.
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This biography of Richard Wright acts as background knowledge to Native Son because now I can understand his purpose for his writing , and understanding what he went through , the time period , the limitations , and society. The book spoke on all of these injustices that occurred in real life . For example , the Main character Bigger Thomas possessed a mindset that was odd , he was torn between being angry and confused about the color of his skin so it drove him to act unjustly . He did not trust himself to trust anyone including authority discussed in Video #1. However , Bigger felt that he had to take this route because he couldn’t trust his authority enough to protect him.
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I noticed a lot of information that I did not see observe from reading the Introduction in Native Son. I really think after reading the Biography, I see ways to compare similarities in the lives of Richard Wright and Bigger Thomas. I feel that the reason Richard Wright wrote this novel was to show how his life had some severe struggles and barriers just as he wrote in the novel to show the character struggles in Native Son.
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I learned a lot of things that I didn’t know about him before. I thought that the information was clear and precise.
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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.
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Some vocabulary that I learned are Debased, tenanted, and grotesque. I could incorporate this into a discussion.
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The new vocabulary I learned was resonance, grotesque, and mammies. I plan to use the word blackness to uplift the word and myself.
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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.
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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.
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The exaggeration of characters, political action, Bigger Thomas, and segregation are some vocabulary brought up in her writing.
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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.
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The author of this passage talks about how Wrights targeted audience for Native Son were white people; and this was to gain white sympathy. She also discussed the harsh stereotypes incorporated in Native Son to describe Bigger.
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Some topics that were covered in this text were why the author choose to write Native son the way he did it and Native son, its intention.
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The topics that were talked about in this text were that Richard Wrights book is a terrible and very stereotypical view of the black community.
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This passage talks about stereotypes and gaining sympathy from white people.
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2.) Some topics covered in this excerpt are realistic situations, and how this article says Native Son is for the white audience. The realistic situations come in when the author talks about how Bigger Thomas is an African American that does not exist in the real world. What the author means is that all the trouble, and types of killings he did are not realistic in the real world. The author admitted that the African Americans already knew how Wright’s explanation in Native Son reflected life for Blacks. That is why the audience was intended for whites because they did not know much about the subject.
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The author talks about how Native Son is purposely exaggerated. It also talks about who they think was the targeted audience was for the book.
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This is really the validation I needed to see to justify my own previous opinions on the book. I agree 100% with what Mathis states in this passage. Wright’s portrayal of Bigger in Native Son was very stereotypical. He made him have a single mother, poor, a rapist, and a murderer. If Wright wanted to gain white sympathy from this book, he should have given Bigger a different persona. This character is very stereotypical and appalling. Which Mathias also states as well. She believes that Wright made it seem like every Black person had this particular experience/lifestyle and that just was not the case.
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This information helped me understand why the author wrote Native son to portray the black community in such a stressful way that allowed the readers to feel guilt for Mary’s parents right after they had shown love and care for Bigger.
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The information that was being talked about throughout the whole text gave me a different view on how the author writes Native Son. I did come to think it was good writing but reading the way Mathis sees the book, I think differently. Not entirely but in certain aspects.
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3.) What I learned mainly that helps me better understand Native Son is seeing a different perspective of how Native Son was explained. I noted that the author made a good point about realistic situations. I know that there were stereotypes, racism, discrimination on African Americans that some thought were exaggerated in the novel. The way Richard Wright described Bigger, though, was not realistic. He described Bigger as a poor person, murderer, and not a good person to be around. It is true that not many African American would do what Bigger did. So, I know when I talk about a race you should not say, “Black people do this”. One should say, “Some Black people do this”. Richard Wright made it seem to the audience that this is what an African American grows up to become. I think I learned how to better approach my discussions and questions with other classmates. Also, I learned life lessons from this, including how stereotypes lead to discrimination.
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This definitely helped me understand why Native Son was wrote how it was wrote. Wright meant to describe Bigger the way he did because of stereotypes.
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This relates to Native Son because it’s about Native Son. This discusses opinions on Wrights Character developmental techniques (of Bigger). This however differs from Native son because Mathis disagrees with Bigger’s entire persona. Wright felt as though him writing Bigger the way he did would gain white sympathy and increased racial awareness and political action, while Mathis felt as though it will do the complete opposite and give black people bad representation.
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This text is about the books Native on and it’s explaining how they thought the author felt and why he writes the book. It differs because it may have not been how the author perceived why he wrote his character like that.
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The whole text is an opinion on Native Son and how the main character is portrayed so that is the main relation with each other.
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This passage relates about Native Son. The author critices Wrights techniques. They talk about Bigger and the represntation of black men.
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4.) This excerpt relates to Native Son because both authors talk about racism and how it affects African American society. However, these both differ because the author of this excerpt thinks that the way Wright described Bigger is not realistic, especially with the raping and killings that Bigger was accused of. I am quite sure this was not Wright’s intention or what he wanted the audience to see in Bigger Thomas. I think Wright was more focused on the barriers that Bigger faced in a redlining community that had no room for much opportunity. These are the relations and differences between the excerpt and Native Son. And after all, Native Son was a fiction novel.
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It shows how Bigger was an example of how people saw a black man. What they thought a black man would do. This was all stereotypes that have been developed and put into Bigger as a character.
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This source is not credible at all. This is all criticism therefore it is all bias. It is extremely opinionated and credible sources must be without bias nor opinion. This may not be reliable because others may not have the same opinions and beliefs as Mathis has presented.
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The bias would be that this is not the author’s point of view and it is someone else inferring what the author may have been thinking. The speaker is
Ayana Mathis and the sources are unknown because they are not stated. This is not reliable because the sources are not there. A limitation would be not sourcing where they got the information.
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This source is completely biased so it isn’t credible. It is criticising a book which is an opinion and not facts. Therefor, it is not credible and is only one persons opinion.c
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This source does not seem very relable. It seems biased and very critical. It includes the authors opinions
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5.) This source was not credible. There is a lot of criticism involved in this excerpt. I know anything that is biased, opinionated, or has perspectives that get off topic with the subject are not trustworthy sources. I did notice that the author used simile to connect Bigger Thomas to protagonist in novels by other authors at that time, such as “There Eyes Were Watching God”, “Cane”, and “The Street”. We do not know if this was the author’s intention or if the message is a trustworthy source. Therefore, I don’t think this excerpt is a credible source.
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This source is very biased on opposition to Richard Wright’s subject matter. It did start as being objective then became subjective leaning towards against native son’s work.
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The source is not credible. It is someone’s opinion. The author may refer to other things but it is just them making connections and that is the limitation as well.
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I personally disliked the excerpt because the author disrespects the work of Richard Wright in Native Son. I did not learn much from this, but I noticed there was a lot of bias and hatred in this excerpt. I think this was a good example for me when looking at sources such as this one. But this source just did not support Richard Wright’s argument in Native Son, or the circumstances of African Americans represented in the novel through Bigger Thomas.
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This source made me think about the native and my inference on why wright wrote the book as such. I enjoyed reading this.
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4.) This video relates to texts like Native Son because they explain the many ways that poverty affects children and how could turn out to be in life. A relationship is in Black Boy by Richard Wright. The protagonist and his family lived in poverty, having nothing. The protagonist knew they had nothing and they had few opportunities in life because they were poor. In the video, the speaker explains how poverty affected life’s opportunities. Both differ, though, because in Black Boy they all still lived in poverty, but the mother had a job in the novel. The video is describing more about children and how parents did not finish school which affects the child in his or her future. Poverty just made it worse for many people.
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This video provided good information mainly about opportunities for people in poverty. Opportunity is a key for success, but it is not provided for everyone. This video explains how children in poverty had many barriers that prevented them from excelling in life. The good thing about this video is it provides solutions on how this problem of lack of opportunity can be fixed for people in poverty. The video helps me understand the importance of opportunity and how poverty affected many people in that period. I will continue to broaden my knowledge about how things happen in life after viewing this video.
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Maladaptive coping mechanisms: behaviors that make us feel better in the short term but in the long term they are very harmful. I’d like to use perpetuation in future discussions. Adaptive or healthy coping mechanisms: skills that we must learn in order to replace our maladaptive coping mechanisms.
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Topics covered in this video include: maladaptive coping mechanisms, adaptive coping mechanisms, coping emotions, and recovery.
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I learned what maladaptive coping mechanisms are and how they affect one in the long run. If we become dependent on them we become emotionally weaker and less able to withstand negative emotions. And how these mechanisms convince one that they’re the only solution. This reminds me of Bigger in Native Son. He thought that killing Mary and Bessie would be the best decisions but only hurt him in the long run. This helped me better understand why Bigger did what he did even if they weren’t the best decisions; he used Maladaptive Coping Mechanisms.
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This video is quite different from the texts we’ve read in class and videos that I’ve watched so far. It talks about specific psychological factors that people uses and the and the negative effects that it has on a person with continual use. No other texts talks about this. Like stated in the paragraph before, Native Son does have use of Maladaptive Coping Mechanisms (with Bigger).
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This source seems reliable. There isn’t any bias or any inaccuracy within the topics mentioned. There is use of subject based terminology, however, the sources where the video get it’s information is not present. Therefore it is unknown if the source is credible.
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Some of the new vocabulary that I learned was the word meritocracy and cultural capital. I think I would start using the word equalizer in my discussions now.
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a new term that I learned and will start to in discussions is social conflict theory which helps explain how our educational system can both cause and perpetuate class differences
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this videos talk about students who live in a higher income household tends to have a better education then a student that grows up in a low income house. Counties where there are higher income families schools get more funding which makes it easier for their students to find activities and have better teacher and its easier to get into school compared to a low income student
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Some of the topics being discussed in this video is how a students education is affected and differs depending on money and their social class
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I learned that it is very much true that our education is affected based of how much income our parents receive which will help me understand Biggers familys situation.
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This relates to the Native Son. The video talks about maladaptive coping mechanisms. Bigger definatly uses these. An example of this is when he gets angry at Bessie after killing Mary. He was trying to cope with the fact that he had just killed a white woman and the police where after him.
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4.) This video relates to texts like Native Son because they explain not only how your race affects how people view you in life, but your community can describe what type of person you could become. A relationship to Native Son can be when Bigger stopped school in the 8th grade. This shows how the people who live in poverty are more likely to not have a successful education because no one took the time to care for them. The video says the same thing about how people can be affected if no support is provided to those living in poverty compared to wealthy people. The wealthy people are well behaved and are more likely to have a successful life. The difference is Native Son is more focused on how people in poverty got no respect or care because of their race. The video explains how wealth had a negative impact on many things involving a community.
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This relates to Native Son because it shows how they did not have a good opportunity to education because of money.
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I believe this source is credible because it wasn’t biased towards any specific opinion.
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I believe this source is credible because she presents many facts the made she gave us examples of studies done by experts in schools counties.
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I feel that I learned a lot of new vocabulary in this video. This video well explains how your community affects what type of opportunities you could potentially have in life. I have read a lot of this in Native Son. The surprising fact is that racial injustice still happens today in our world. I am able to explain more in detail about how communities can affect a person’s life, behavior, and destiny such as what happened with Bigger Thomas.
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I can definitely agree with the speaker. The speaker makes the argument from nothing besides facts and it isn’t opinionated in my opinion. This relates to Native Son because Bigger was not only coming from a low income environment, he was doing crime and maybe wasn’t expected to get education how the author states. This can make him achieve less than Mary because looking at how much money Mr Dalton has he probably had a good education which made Mary be expected to do more. This can make achieve more or less depending on their community. Bigger was also black which could have cause disadvantage with disciplinary issues which could have developed why he didn’t want education and what he did besides that.
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New vocabulary I learned was adversity stress and emotional self-regulation. I don’t plan on using any of these words because I don’t talk about this topic with anyone.
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Some of the new vocabulary that I learned includes self regulation and abstract thinking. I hope to include them into my discussions in the future because I want to study it further in college.
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Some of the topics that were covered in this video were Child adversity, effects of abuse, and neglect.
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Some topics in the video were stress and the kinds of stresses the body has. It also talks about child adversity.
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I learned that things that happen to a child when younger can affect their lives when they get older. This relates to Native son because Bigger probably had something wrong with his mental health.
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I learned that a childs situation is a kid can affect them later on
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This relates to Native son because Bigger had mental issues which caused him to acted up, it might have been because his father was absent throughout his life. This differs because we don’t know if Bigger had a problem when growing up.
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This relates to “Hunger” because it starts with a kid and his problems internally and externally which could affect them later on.
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This source seems unbiased and trustworthy. This source is credible because mostly everyone listens to CDC because they help prevent diseases. There are no issues with relevance or reliability because CDC has proven time and time again that they can be trustworthy.
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I believe this source is credible because it is based on facts and real information which shows no bias.
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I enjoyed learning about this topic because it explains not only Bigger’s stress but human stress in general. Bigger might have toxic stress which might be why he acts the way he does. This can influence his social interactions with his friends and Bessie. This also shows how Bigger feels, wanting to runaway and his behavior.
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I had heard about this before but this video really explained the topic well. This video broaden my information about this topic.
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the new term that I’ve learned and will use in future discussion are emancipation-the freeing of someone from slavery
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this video goes over how us black people are viewed in America regardless of their status in society .we still face the same problems. The video goes over that we are viewed and violent dangerous people.
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I learned that this man works hard to get to a certain level where people would set him aside or view him different when it comes to black people but in reality this country view all of us as criminal and still face racial injustice and discrimination no matter the status we hold in america.
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I believe this video relates to native son because this video discusses what happens to black people and how they are viewed and treated by police officer in their own communities regardless of the status.
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this source is reliable because it a victim himself speaking out on what happened to him.
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The birth of a nation: a monumental film that used the newest and most advanced film-making techniques during that time period (it was very racist). Blackface: dressing up as a black person (i know this term it’s jargon); I plan to incorporate this into future discussions. Bloodletting: surgical removal of a patients blood for therapeutic purposes. Parlance: particular way of speaking or using words. I plan to incorporate the “KKK” into my discussions as well; this organization seems to be very prominent in the texts that we’ve read in class. Codify: arrange (laws or rules) into systematic code. Despotic: tyrannical. Juggernaut: huge, powerful, overwhelming force or institution.
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The only vocabulary I learned was bloodletting which they let blood out of your body. A word I would use would be Blaceface because it seems to be a trend these days to do this.
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Some new words I learned are animalistic buffoons and tyrants. I hope I don not have the need to use them in my discussions or to describe anything.
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Topics covered in this video include: film-making techniques, cinema, racial cording, the civil war, blackface, sentimentality in acting, bias/racism and etc.
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Some topics that were covered in this video were racism, the world war, and blackface.
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Topics covered were war, racism, blackface, etc.
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I wouldn’t say that this video had helped me better understand Native Son. But it definitely helped me understand other texts that we’ve read in class like for example the news articles on lynchings: In this cinematic work (The Birth of a Nation) it was described how the southern whites were victims, black people were savages, and the KKK were saviors. It makes me connect back to these lynching articles; these descriptions were the same, black people were killed because they were viewed as “savages”, whites in the neighborhood were viewed as “victims” and the killers of these black people (most likely the KKK) were viewed as heroes. I better understand that these roles are stereotypes and have been prominent views before this cinematic work had came into existence.
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In this video, I didn’t learn much that could correlate with Native son. This video helped me understand why people treated black people horribly and why lynching was seen as normal. This helped in understand the text we read about lynching.
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Like stated in my response to the paragraph above, this cinematic work has many stereotypes that have been prominent within past time periods. Like viewing black people as savages, whites as victims, and KKK and other racist terrorist organizations as saviors. These stereotypes are in the texts of News articles on Lynchings. And like in Native son, the KKK is mentioned. All of the texts that we have read in class so far are based on racism; racial inequality or racial injustice. It’s all been race. However these works do differ. For instance, this video goes in depth on the history behind racial oppression racial stereotypes presented by white people in the past (it’s about the civil war), while native son is about that present time period; also so are the other texts that we’ve read in class.
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This video relates to Native son because it talks about racism and stereotypes behind black people. This differs from Native son because not all black people are not liked and this is the same for other races as well.
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There aren’t really any sources used other than the actually cinematic work being talked about for this specific video so I can’t exactly speak for the credibility if the actual primary source is being used. So I guess that this source (the video) is reliable (I wouldn’t think that this question would apply to this specific video). The actual cinematic work itself is not credible though. It has too many biases; it’s written in a completely racist and white perspective and has too many opinions. Credible sources should not be opinionated or biased, strictly facts. Also it is unknown where the creators/writers of the movie got their information on the civil war so their information on this topic could be false. I don’t have any questions on the video.
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A bias would be that the speaker doesn’t know what the true intent of the author. The source that was used is the film Birth of a Nation. There are no issues with relevance or reliability because the source is credible. the sources are credible because they are sourcing directing from the film. There is no limitation in this video.
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I never heard about Birth of a Nation so I found it surprising that all of those things happened.
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Greenwood: Black district in Tulsa Oklahoma. Later known as black wall street. Potent: Having great influence or effect.
Jargon: Second Amendment
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Topics covered in this video include: Black Wall Street, self-containment, racial progress, WW1, white mob violence, 2nd amendment, “largest single incident of racial violence in all of american history”.
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I learned about the economic downfall of Greenwood. Before this video I had no prior knowledge of Greenwood and its existence. I had no idea that there was an economically successful black community during this time period. But it was later destroyed by racists. This helps me better understand all of the texts that we have read in class and truly understand how hard it must’ve been for black people during this time period to be economically successful. This makes me think about Hunger and Native Son and how hard it must have been for black people to be financially stable. Whether it be the lack of opportunities or the destruction of them, black people were SERIOUSLY oppressed.
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I relate this video to the first video. Both videos have to do with the economical effects on the black community. Although the video 1 goes into depth with the segregational effects on the black community, poor economics is a result. These segregated black communities have declined/done poorly because of white people during this time period. Also in Native Son as well. Segregation had hindered the success of the black community. However, in video 1 and Native Son, the neighborhoods had never done well unlike in Greenwood and Tulsa; the region was known as the “Black wall street”.
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This source seems extremely credible. It has use of subject based terminology and primary resources. There are also historians presented in the video. This source is extremely credible and reliable. All questions that i had, were later answered by the video.
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this video covered the 1919 Chicago race riots and how they started. The video stated the immigration problem in Chicago and how it affected jobs and created racial tensions in the city.
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what started the riots was a teenage African American man by the name of Eugene Williams was killed by a white mob whom drowned him at lake Michigan and the police did nothing to arrest those white people and the showed how corrupt the system was and now I understand why bigger was afraid to commit a crime against a white person and it was easier for him to rob a black person.
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4.) This video relates to texts like Native Son because they explain how race riots were a key factor when the different races expressed themselves, but some people were not even allowed to share their opinions and perspectives or they could have been violence involved, including race riots. A relation to is Native Son when Bigger explains how his father died. It was during a riot. Riots were not beneficial for some colored people because incidents like what happen to Bigger Thomas father were occurring all the time. The video relates because it explains how African Americans never had a chance for their voice to be heard, and if something bad happened, they would be punished by a mob. There are no differences based on what I saw. I think both Native Son and the video correlate to how race riots were doing that time.
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this video show what the criminal justice system was like toward white on black crimes and how then weren’t solve or given attention to and it show why bigger only committed crimes against black people.
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this source is credible because it show official facts and event that show how the riots started and it given number states that are true.
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This video really explains the effects that Race Riots had in Chicago. Race Riots left a significant mark on Chicago. When riots happened, many African Americans did not have a say in anything. Riots made things much worse for people in Chicago by increasing segregation and hostile feelings among the races. I feel I can apply what I learned.
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Repressive: (of social or political system) inhibiting or restraining the freedom of a person or group of people. Burgeoning: begin to grow or increase rapidly. Anthology: published collection of poems or other pieces of writing. Facet: one side of something many-sided. “flowering of creativity”
Jargon: New Negro Movement
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jargon: New Negro Movement,anthology,Repressive
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Topics covered in this video include: Black writing, Black art, Black Music, and the migration of black people from the south to the urban north a.k.a. the Great Migration.
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This video did not help me understand Native Son at all. I feel like the two works have nothing in common. This video talks about the progressive era of black people in music, literature, dance, art, and other performance arts. Other than this doing with black people, this video has nothing in common with Native Son. However, I could relate this to “Ballad of the Landlord” by Langston Hughes. As it is known, Langston Hughes was a well known leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He specialized in jazz poetry. Now focusing on Ballad of the Landlord re-read the title: Ballad: Poem song or short story narrating in short stanzas. Now during the french medieval era and centuries after that, ballads become known as “dance songs”. Reading Ballad of the landlord I interpreted it as a constant dance between the main character, going back and fourth with each other. Langston Hughes’ leadership and involvement in the Harlem renaissance probably swayed him to write Ballad of the landlord. For him to include some attributes of musical arts into this poem was a result of his role in the Harlem renaissance. Watching this video helped me better understand why that poem had that specific title, and was written in that narrative.
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This video relates to the previous video on Greenwood and Tulsa Riots. Both videos talk about the success of Black people; Greenwood and Tulsa was economic success and the Harlem Renaissance was performance arts success. They also both had downfalls: Greenwood and Tulsa was destroyed by white people and The Harlem Renaissance declined because of the great depression. This video also differs. No text that we’ve read so far has gone in depth on the progressive era for Black people in performance arts.
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This video differs from the text because it deals with the success of black people. Native Son is the complete opposite. This video relates to the Poem,The Rose that grew from Conerete because someone achieves success.
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This source seems very credible. There is uses of primary sources (Literary works and music/musicians during the renaissance) and use of subject based terminology. There are not any biases. These sources are credible because they are primary, coming directly from that time period. However the sources used in this video may have not all been mentioned therefore it may not be 100% credible.
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Words and phrases I plan to incorporate into my future discussions: racial terror, terrorism. These words truly evoke what lynchings were really like during this time period. It was terrorism, and these mobs, were terrorists.
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word and phrases that are new to me but I plan to use in future discussions are disenfranchisement-the state of being deprived of a right or privilege and subordination-the action or state of subordinating or of being subordinate
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Topics covered in this video include: slavery, racial terrorism, oppression, reconstruction, racial sub-ordination, lynchings, racial segregation, interracial sexual relations, justice system. Racial violence.
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this video covers the history on the origins of lynching and why it statred,it also states what slaves were given as soon as slavery was abolished.
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This helps me better understand the “News Articles on Lynchings”, “The Lynching” by Claude McKay and “Lynch Law in America” by Ida B Wells that we’ve read for class. This video really goes into depth on how this lynch “trend” started and the horrors of what it was really like. It taught me things i didn’t know like how they were treated as carnivals, there were food stands and even children showed up. The public execution of black people was viewed as entertainment. And i had no idea that black people during this time period were murdered for such small crimes.
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I learned that after slavery slaves were given full citizenship, the right to vote, land and was protected under the 14th amendment against racial crimes against them. People in the south were mad that this was happening and after the civil war thousand of black people were killed. A black man was lynched for bumping into a white woman on the way to the train. This helps me better understand why biggers was scared to commit a crime against a white person he knew he would die there would be no way out that situation.
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This video relates to “News Articles on Lynchings”, “The Lynching” by Claude McKay and “Lynch Law in America” by Ida B Wells because all of these works have to deal with lynching. They all talk about the ghastly events that occur when a Lynching happens, whether it be implied (The Lynching) or explicitly states (news articles on lynching). This Differs form the texts that we’ve read because unlike the texts I’ve mentioned above, this video is from a third person perspective that isn’t a primary source.
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4.) This video relates to texts like Native Son because they explain how lynching was not a good thing in America and how it just created more hatred among the races. A correlation is in Native Son when the crowd wanted to lynch Bigger because he killed Mary Dalton. The only reason they wanted to lynch him was because he was Black, and he killed one of their own which hurt them tremendously. The video provides real life situations of how Black people were lynched because they may have done something that a white could have taken offense about. There is no difference between the video and Native Son on this topic. Both have the same idea or understanding of how lynching was done in America and its effects on Blacks.
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this video relates to the text “the lynching” by Claude McKay and "The Lynch law in America "by Ida B Wells because every single one these text discuss about lynching that happened in America. They all gave an example on a lynching and discussed about how people got away with lynching black people.
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This source seems very credible. There are no biases nor potential biases. The speaker in this video has clearly done their research and has even provided evidence to support their claim: actual instances of lynchings during this time period.
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I believe this source is credible because the speaker in the video seemed to know what he was talking about and he backed everything he said with facts.
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This video just added on to what I already knew most about. Lynching was such a terrible thing in America. Lynching was very unnecessary. It was violence that was not needed for any reason. Most of the lynching were of African Americans. If you did something that was disliked, you were most likely to get lynched, but it depended on your color. And sometimes you did not have to do anything. Just being Black could get you lynched. I feel this video helped me gain a better understanding of lynching, and how to apply what I learned and more of the terrible things that happen to Blacks.
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I had heard about lynching before and I do not like it one bit but it has happened. there is no hurt in learning information, at least this information. This video was informative.
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New vocabulary I learned were racial equality, racial subordination, and disenfranchisement. I could use racial equality when I’m having a conversation about racism.
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Some topics covered in this video were lynching, unjust treatment for blacks, and racism.
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I learned that blacks were easily crucified for anything concerning white people. This information helps in understand why Bigger was so afraid when Mary’s mother came in because he knew of the consequences of a black man even looking at a white woman.
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4.) This video relates to texts like Native Son because it explains how African Americans were treated at that time and how most African Americans never got an opportunity to say what they wanted to say. They are similar because in Native Son Bigger had many situations where he was prevented to from saying or doing something that may have been offensive. But, in Bigger’s mind it was not offensive because he knew that it was the truth about the way African Americans were being treated. The video explains a scene on how Blacks never got to explain their side of the story because of their color. The video showed a scene of that happening in Native Son. They differ, though, because in Native Son some African Americans had value to whites. This Richard Wright Black Boy video makes it seem like African Americans had no value at all to whites.
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This video relates to Native son because Bigger was scared of lynching. He was a Black man that accidentally killed a white woman. This video also relates to texts we have read about lynching. This video differs from Native son because Bigger didn’t get killed from lynching but from an electric chair.
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I don’t think there is any bias concerning this video. The sources that were used were not stated. The only thing that gives the speaker credibility is because on their channel it says that they are for justice. I do not have any questions.
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This video was nice. African Americans were an oppressed group. This video really explained from different perspectives how African Americans were treated without respect. In the 1940s, most whites did not think of African Americans or care about them. Wright’s writings were outstanding because they contained information that most people did not think a Black would admit or say. It was simply said that most Blacks had no opportunity to say what they wanted to say without having violence, racism, and discrimination involved. I feel that all of Wrights ’writings or makings had a good purposes. This video will support my thoughts about explanations for racism in the United States.
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A phrase I plan on incorporating into my future discussions includes: “seeking ways to survive” this phrase describes what black life was like after slavery. Vocabulary: sharecropping: type of farming where families rent small plots of land from a landowner in return for a portion of their crop.
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I already knew all of the words that were used in this video. Phrases that I plan to use in discussions would be Wright came to the realization that school won’t get him anywhere.
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Topics covered in this video include: Jim Crow, Sharecropping, slavery, reconstruction, the life of Richard Wright, education, and migration.
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Some topics that were covered in this video were Jim crow laws, sharecropping, slavery, racism, and segregation.
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I now fully know why Richard Wright wrote Bigger’s persona the way he did. How he made bigger have such a strong disliking for white people, why bigger was strong minded and a great thinker, how Bigger did whatever he had to get what he wanted; because Wright himself was just like him. It is almost evident that Wright based Bigger off of himself. I believe that he did this to really show to his audience, what black life is like from a first person perspective in his novel Native Son.
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I learned that Wright, the author of Native son was a smart person but also a tricky guy. This helps me understand why he wrote Native son and the commitment he had to write.
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Bigger in Native Son and Richard Wright are so similar. Both bigger are strong minded and a great thinkers, both did whatever he had to get what they wanted, both were black men in America. However the two differ; Bigger wasn’t able to continue his education because he was poor and wasn’t able to, Wright didn’t continue his education because he felt as though he was too smart and didn’t learn anything from school. This source also contradicts the article called “James Baldwin Denounced Richard Wright’s ‘Native Son’ as a ‘Protest Novel’ Was He Right?” because in this article, it states that Bigger only got up to a 9th grade education while this video states that Bigger got up to a 10th grade education but dropped out in the middle of it.
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This video relates to Native Son because Richard Wright was reflecting his own personality and experiences into the book. Bigger and Wright both struggled through poverty and were raised by single mothers. They differ because Bigger wasn’t very smart and killed someone. While Ricard was smart and did’nt.
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This video relates to this work Native son because Native son is a novel that people find hard to understand why he would put these characters in that situation and this video gives you insight.
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This source to be credible. The speakers in this video have evidently done their research on Wright in order to make it. Speakers of this video I believe are historians. They even used his exact words (a snippet of him speaking) so this video has use of primary sources. There are no biases.
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This source is not biased. The source is Richard Wright. Because the source comes from the original person, the source is credible. This video did not state the books that Richard Wright wrote.
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The source is sad to say true. People have an image on people because of stereotypes. Richard Wright’s life is definitely difficult. I liked how honest the speaker makes it seem and doesn’t make his life look great even thought in reality to me it looks very sad. This relates to Native Son because you can see the influence to Native Son. Wright grew in poverty and couldn’t get the education he needed. It shows what whites think of black people which is big in Native Son. I see that he also got newspaper a lot which can explain the reason why Bigger always looked for them in Native Son. There is also the view on communism which is in Native Son.
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This video refreshed my information on Wright. It made me respect him more seeing how far he has come.
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This video related to Native Son. James Baldwin explains how image affects peoples perception of you. Biggers image was distorted when he was forced to confess to the crime and the news potrayed him as some kind of beast. He was no longer Bigger Thomas, but another evil black man. This is similar to when Baldwin said “I don’t know what white people see when they look at a negro, but it wasn’t me”.
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I learned about the different zones that the HOLC made on the residential security maps. Green was for business men and were the best areas, the blue area was the white collar area where good people lived, the yellow area was where the working class lived, and the red area is where the lower class whites and blacks lived. The red area was the most affected by the housing act because of the low property value things weren’t getting funded and these people lived near factories which was bad for their health. This video helps me better understand stand native son because now I have a clear picture on the environment he grew up in and know why he acted the way he did and why he was scared of white people.
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