Based off the video a new vocabulary term I plan to use is “redlining”. Redlining is the practice of denying services, either directly or through selectively raising prices, to residents of certain areas based on their racial or ethnic of those areas. While some of the most famous examples of redlining regard denying financial services such as healthcare or insurance the most common example resides in Native Son Bigger’s family were charged an excessive amount for a one bedroom apartment because they were black. While whites are charged much less for the same type of room. Redlining affects the lives of many black families because families are placed in a neighborhood with homes that aren’t worth a lot and this affects their school funds. This can create opportunity problems.

I think the video allowed me to gain some new information that hadn’t heard of or may have forgotten. The term "redlining comes off as familiar to me but I can’t seem to recall where I had heard, most likely during history class, but the video has helped me to expand my knowledge a bit more one the subject of how housing worked back then and how it may have been a similar situation for blacks in “Native Son”

Some new vocabulary I plan to use that I learned from the video includes: redlining, housing segregation, and the Fair Housing Act.

Some topics that were discussed in the video were the “Fair Housing Act of 1968” that was implemented during the New Deal but was never enforced. Some more general topics covered in the video were: unequal opportunities for colored people, for example it’s harder for a black person to get a mortgage or loan vs a white person. Social class and education in a black community were also some topics.

Some topics that were covered in this video was how redlining played a role in housing segregation, and how the people living in these areas are affected. Housing segregation is the main reason that black families have less family wealth of white families. The video also talks about how housing affects education as well, better schools are put into neighborhoods with better houses, so these redlined areas don’t have schools with ample resources, or with nice looking buildings, etc.

Some topics I was able to see within the video was Redlining the effects this had on schools, hospitals, and housings. Segregation and discrimination were also a big deal in this video.

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

This video discusses the history of Redlining and the chain reaction it has on many black americans today. Redlining segregated housing on the basis of class and race. After the Fair Housing Act of 1968 was passed, Redlining “ended” but not really. Many black americans still live in poor housing areas and this affects the school and city services in that area.

Surprisingly I learned more than I expected. I learned that housing segregation and redlining are still very present in this country today. I learned that where a person is located has a greater impact than what I thought. It impacts their education quality, their living conditions, and even their health. I think this will better help me understand Bigger from Native Son because we know that he lived in a poor black segregated community. The video greatly explains how individuals are affected by living in a place like that. So I understand why Bigger had such a negative mindset, why he believed he could not follow his dreams… because it seems like this country was setting up black people for failure back then and even today it seems like they still are. Now I truly understand how hard it is for people like Bigger to have a positive perspective about life and their future.

After watching this video, I was able to reflect on what I’ve read in Native Son. Mr. Dalton was in the real estate business, but only offered poorer looking houses to black people, in rundown neighborhoods. The practice of housing segregation and redlining is very prominent in Native Son and Mr. Dalton is ‘exposed’ for it, he says he makes efforts to support black people, yet continues to put them into housing situations that will make it a lot harder for them to improve and get wealthier. After seeing this video, I understand why Bigger acted as he did, he felt that he had no purpose and less opportunities. Wright portrays Bigger hating his household, having him say he lives in a one bedroom apartment with four people, that things in the house don’t work, etc. The beginning of Native Son starts out with them catching a rat, and I now realize why this was added in the book, and it really showcases Bigger’s living situation due to things like redlining.

I learned how racial segregation and discrimination plays a huge role when it comes to housing. This affects many families both small and big. This video was able to give us a better insight in how in the novel Native Son Bigger’s mom was struggling financially in her one bedroom apartment living with 3 of her children in it. I was able to see how people didn’t have an option in where they wanted to live they were assigned areas by racial group and financial status. I also learned that the housing affect school systems since the black community lived a poor area with houses that didn’t have more than 1 room it was very obvious that their education would be much less then those who have bigger house and living in different areas.

It was quite an unfair time for people of color, just like in Native Son blacks had poor housing and this video has given some knowledge of what time period Native Son may have taken place in or at least an idea of when. I learned how the redlining system worked, what each color meant, People couldn’t just choose where they wanted to live, and ho education was effected by the finances.

A multitude of information was grasped from this video. I learned that redlining, zoning, and housing segregation most likely affected why the neighborhood that Bigger lived in was poor. Redlining affected all of the things his family could do, from buying a larger house to even having appliances work. I also now know that schools are affected by redlining with neighborhoods that have more money having significantly better education.

The video relates to Native Son because it discusses how white people have more opportunities than black people, we can see that by comparing the living conditions of Bigger’s family versus Mary’s family and their big gap in social class. The video can also be related to the poem “Ballad of the Landlord” because it discusses the terrible and improper housing blacks received and how that is a huge hardship for black people.

This video relates Native Son because of what we’ve learned how Mr. Dalton and him not allowed black people to move into neighborhoods where there were a lot of whites. Another comparison would be the poem “Ballad of the Landlord,” which also talks about black people having housing that was not as good as white peoples living situations.

This video relates to native son because in both the novel and the video mentioned how discrimination,segregation, and inequality affects the black community negatively we were able to see read it and hear it. The difference between both the video and novel would be the different time periods. The next difference would be the different types of opportunities schools would give you for example in the novel Bigger wanted to be a pilot but the type of education that was offered in his community was not enough to help him out in this career path

Like Native Son segregation was in act, as the video explains how certain areas were separated, I contrast to the video and Native Son, the novel does not show many signs of redlining, it’s not the focus of the novel but a small reference to it would be nice.

This video relates to Native Son in the fact that it shows how homes in Bigger’s neighborhood had limited room and a lot of the people who lived there had limited money and it was clear that proper housing wasn’t available.

This video relates heavily to Native Son because it shows the mistreatment of the black people in their housing situation, and being stuck in certain places of the city. The Ballad of the Landlord is relatable to this video because it deals with the situation of housing difficulty.

Also, another limitation is that they didn’t interview Baltimore Residents, instead of residents from other Martin Luther King Jr.Blvd’s.

There could definitely be a potential bias from the speaker. I searched him up and he is an African American male. This could make the video biased because he might be talking from experience without us knowing. Although I don’t see any issues with relevance and credibility, some limitations are that he only interviewed people from Baltimore, and it was only a few people as well. As of 2018, Baltimore’s population is 602,495 people, that’s a lot of people, I think his representative sample doesn’t match the population. He did not interview other minorities that may be going through similar conditions in Baltimore as well.

As viewers, we do not know right from watching this video where the speaker got their sources from. Though, a lot of the things talk about in this video such as bad neighborhood = bad schooling is very true and I have seen it first hand. A limitation lies within how many people were interviewed. We do not know the jobs of these people or education level to fully assess their living situations. The video is titled housing segregation and redlining in America, but only surveys a select few people from Baltimore which brings down the reliability of the information given.

The source is pretty accurate. There was a few personal testimonies on how conditions in these areas affect their lives physically,mentally, and financially. What gives the speakers credibility is showing evidence such as images. [Edited]
A potential bias moment that was present was having all black speakers. If the person making this video would have used other people who weren’t black would make this video more credible and reliable. Some limitations that were present in the video is lacking on speakers there was about 2 speakers and I think there should’ve been more. Some questions weren’t answered in the video like why redlining has not stopped? Is it still happening?

I’m not quite sure that this is a credible source, yes the presenter gives facts about the year, the acts put in place, the situation of that era in time, etc. However he only speaks from only the perspectives of the blacks in the community, this is a potential bias as he doesn’t go over what or what could’ve been the whites’ perspective in all this. He also left some questions unanswered or maybe just didn’t phrase it in a way that we knew he was answering them. It’s not quite credible but close, in my opinion that is.

Some bias is extremely likely. The people who were interviewed were from Baltimore leading to a situation where their opinion may swing a certain way. People from other communities and cities could have also been interviewed on the topic to prevent this. A limitation is not knowing the background behind some of the interviewees and how many people were interviewed in the survey.

A potential bias that could be present would be the speaker. There are reliable statistics that he is basing claims on, but it was only one Baltimore citizen being interviewed. There is not a big sample size.

After watching the video, I plan to incorporate “wealth gap” and “housing discrimination” into my discussions, I think these phrases could be useful when discussing the hardships of colored people and lower class people.

A term that I will be adding to my vocabulary is “subprime loans”, this is a category of loans with relatively high interest rates and fees that are offered to borrowers with less than ideal credit. People who get these don’t qualify for a conventional loan in other words one with better borrowing terms

Some vocab terms that will be used in my discussions are “subprime loans”, “wealth gap”, and “inflation”. These terms stood out to me and I feel that they can be integrated into my conversations.

One word that caught my attention and led me to look it up was “inauguration”. It means the beginning or introduction of a system policy, or period

Some topics covered in the video were the wealth gap between white Americans and black Americans, and what has prevented this significant gap to fix itself. It also covers legislative actions from past presidents that have aided or hindered the gap.

Some topics covered in the video include the differences in wealth within the white community and black community and the video gave background on how this came to be. The video uses statistics to show all the details and effects of the racial wealth gap, and also includes information on the New Deal that ties into the central idea of the video.

Some topics covered in the video include: unemployment, subprime loans,slavery,housing,wealth gaps, and redlining

Some of the topics covered in the video include redlining, which was the separation of property that was based on social class and race, the acts that were made the fix problems in America, but did little to make an impact, and the different parts of lifestyle that were affected by house segregation.

This video covers topics like slavery, the Civil War and Redlining. Theses topics all connect to how many black americans are in poverty and bad housing.

Topics covered in the video included the wealth gap between blacks and whites, housing segregation, and loans.

The video briefly goes over some events that took place after WW2 was ending where William Sherman and Edwin Stanton gathered 20 groups of black leaders to discuss what the black community needed to build lives and freedom, hence where the suggestion for blacks to have land came from. So it starts off with that as it’s background and proceeds to go over how shortly after Lincoln died all Africans who owned land were evicted, and this is where housing discrimination took place. One other topic it went over, and the main focus of this video, is the wealth gap and how the less amount of pay the blacks get made whites think that if a black were to move into there community then it would bring down there ranking which is where redlining plays its part.

did. It helped me understand that the system was set up for black people to pay more for low quality housing.

This made me realize and understand why Bigger’s family lived a one bedroom apartment. Not everyone can afford a good house due to their financial stability but sometimes because they are discriminated by the way they looked. I was able to get a better understanding of his things were back then and his sure it was for a black family to get a good house.

Information I learned that better helps me to understand Native Son include the acts and laws of that time period that would make a black man have resentment to white people, and a better image of the living conditions Bigger and other black families lived in.

Learning that loans were not given to people in black neighborhoods made me realize why Bigger and his family, and even other families in his neighborhood are stuck in such an unfortunate situation. It helped me understand that the system is just not built for black people and it is forced to have them live in neighborhoods that are redlined. The wealth of an average black household is ~$17,600 and the wealth of an average white household ~$117,000.

I learned how much of a disadvantage blacks were during this time period. This may be why Bigger’’s family was had poor in Native Son, I also learned that redlining also ties into all of this in a way and how much racism was involved

This video relates to Native Son because it discusses how housing segregation was a huge thing, the video says that real estate agents didn’t want to sell houses to black families. If they did the homes of white families would greatly decrease in value and this was bad for their wealth. In the book Max mentions how Mr. Dalton refuses to rent homes for black families outside of what he called the “black belt.” It was probably for that same reason, so that whites didn’t get affected by having black families living in their neighborhoods. A difference I could find was that this video touches mainly on the wealth gap between the two races, while Native Son focuses more on the oppressions and prejudice the black community faces, big part of it being in the judiciary process.

Bigger’s family was struggling with making money to properly function as a family. Their living situation was a one bedroom apartment and Bigger’s mother constantly begged Bigger to get a job to help provide. This had to do with the wealth gap, in which black families significantly earned less money based on how the system was set up. Though in Native Son, there was no mention of the mom ever trying for a loan, but after watching this video I see why. Subprime loans were more likely to be given to black families because as time went on, the interest would increase, causing black families to go more and more in to debt, messing up their credit score and keeping them in the low class category.

This video relates to both native son and “Ballad of the Landlord” because in native son we were able to see how the black community tend to live in poor areas as real state agents wouldn’t even focus on selling homes to the blacks because they might not afford them. In the “ Ballad of the Landlord” we were able to see how no changes were made to the living conditions of blacks it also provided the idea that the black community live in poor and destroyed environment. The difference would be how in the poem the character went to jail but the video only focus on the wealth gap between both races.

Both this video and text we’ve read such as Native Son have some sort of racial segregation. Additionally, when looking back into Native Son, their is a good chance to Native son and the video both consist of redlining between the rich whites and the average/poor whites and blacks. Despite this. the video focuses more on the segregation and redlining as its topic, while Native Son does not focus on it, but uses it to make the feelings Bigger has against the whites and to progress the story further.

This video relates to other texts because it talks about the wealth inequality, which is a major theme for Native Son.

The poem “Ballad of the Landlord”, which I feel is the text more similar to the video, Just like the video there is poor housing and neglecting from the whites to provide the blacks with better homes all because of racism. In contrast between Native son and this video the novel focuses more on a person and racism rather than an economical situation.

I don’t think there were any potential biases in the video, the video was heavily packed with facts and statistics that supported the multiple points that were being presented. The speakers in the video are educated experts, Booker a previous attorney now US Senator, there was also a sociologist, and a foreclosure specialist. These people are trust worthy and credible because they have degrees and have studied the information in the video, it might’ve been less credible if it was random individual speaking on the topic, but it wasn’t.

I did not see a lot of bias in this video. The video had not only statistic and factual evidence, but the speakers in the video were not only black. The video shows evident analyzing and evaluation in the information that was and included real interviews, articles, news clips, etc to talk about racial wealth gap and how it was and currently is affecting the black community.

Some potential biases could be the people interviewed. Another potential bias is that the video was produced by Vox. The speakers have credibility because they work and have first-hand accounts with the racial wealth gap. A question that wasn’t answered is what can be done by the black community to close the racial wealth gap.

The source I would say is reliable and it’s credible. It didn’t just focus on the whites but also the blacks. It have us the causes and effects of both races. The speakers were experts making this more

Potential bias of the source could be that all of the information given is only in the view of a black person and does not add the perspective of a white person to see the situation from a different perspective. The only information we know about the speaker is that they are male, anything else said would be a guess. The speaker never specifies exactly where he got his information from, saying he got research but never specifying where it is from, so while the information he gives sounds accurate, doing further research into the topic can help. He does not say how much land was for the blacks and poor whites when redlining occurred, along with the different opinions of some whites on the topic of redlining.

I did not see too much bias in the video, because it seemed like the speakers were experts in what they were talking about. If someone is educated and sees all sides of the argument, then I would trust their opinion very well.

Unlike the previous video there were no potential biases, in my opinion. There was nosed type of background music to gain sympathy and because the main focus was the difference in wealth for two different races, the video had the green light to talk about the blacks perspective but they also told what the whites’ perspectives were, and more importantly the information was supported with data. So I think that this is credible sources indeed.

After reading Richard Wright’s biography some terms I could use in my discussion are “Jim Crow” because of Jim Crow laws and how these laws greatly affected the black community in a very negative way by basically depriving them of basic human rights. I could also use “racial violence” to address the violence that comes from different races or violence within the same race.

What I want to keep in mind is Richard Wright’s homeland Roxie,Mississippi. This is where everything happened where most of his writing experiences came to be. He has a huge past in this place. He was able to get a first hand experience of all the inequalities and then turned them into great pieces of writing

I will be sure to keep the Communist party in mind for sure in future discussions. The communist party was a political party that wanted to realize the social and economic goals in communism

Some topics covered in Richard Wright’s biography where how he came from poverty, how he was raised by a single parent, how he joined the communist party, and mainly how he focused on perusing his dreams.

This biography goes over the achievements of Richard Wright in his journal throughout literature. It mentions the hardships he went through to become what he was, such as having to use white friends library card because black people were not allowed to use the public library in Memphis. He was able to come from poverty in a best selling author.

The topics covered in the video are racism, injustice, and power.

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

Topics covered in the passage involve who the writer was, his life prior to being a writer, poverty, and where he was raised. It also tells about how he had joined the communist party, which kind of caught me a bit off guard.

I learned that Richard Wright had a very struggled childhood. I learned that his father left him when he was only 5 years old which would explain why his mom forced him to take on the role of basically having to be “the man of the house” and stepping up to help his mother and siblings. I learned his mother was a sharecropper, and from what I know sharecroppers barley made enough to provide for their families since most of their crops were given off to the owner of the land. I also learned that Wright joined the communist party, which is probably why he decided to add that into the novel Native Son, perhaps that’s why he made Max and Jan belong to the communist party of the US because it represents a part of him.

After reading Wright’s biography, I see that he most likely incorporated a lot of his own traits into Native Son as Bigger Thomas. I also see why he chose to write a book like this that talks about the hardships of black people during these times because it’s what he personally experienced.

From Richard Wright’s biography, I learned about his upbringing and life. From learning about his life I can see how the things in his life influenced his writing. Him being in the Communist Party is reflected in his novel Native Son.

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

I learned that some of the characters in Native Son are parts of Wright’s personal life. Bigger was a reflection of Wright’s troubled childhood while Jan was a manifestation of Wright’s interest in Communism.

It gave me some insight to Richard Wright’s past life and the struggle he went through going up. It also made me realize that he may have incorporated some his life experiences into Native Son and where he’s coming from.

The biography is similar to Native Son in some aspects but there are also some differences. In a sense Bigger represents Wright, both of them were raised by a single parent and both of them were given a huge role that came with a lot of responsibility, and that was stepping up for their families. A main difference was that unlike Bigger, Wright believed in himself and chased his dreams despite the era he lived in that consisted of a lack of opportunities for blacks because of social class and race. The biography can also be related to both of the videos because Wright lived under conditions of poverty like the ones mentioned in the videos, where the quality of life was just terrible.

This biography makes me think of Bigger. I feel like Wright may have tried to portray himself in Native Son as Bigger through aspects like their living situation, not having a father in his life, and possibly some personality traits. It was up to Wright to turn his life around which he successfully did and Bigger had the same responsibility but was not able to do it.

Richard Wright’s biography relates greatly to his autobiography Black Boy and novel Native Son. Black Boy is about Wright’s experiences with racism and poverty in the south during his childhood. In Native Son, Bigger and Wright both grew up in poverty without a father.

Both his novel and “Black Boy” demonstrate racial discrimination and segregation and the effects of it. I believe that most of his writings are inspired by his own experiences that’s why he allow the audience to connect like that was them.

I feel that in a way Bigger represents Wright, some attributes of Bigger’s life are coincidentallly the same, they Both had a lot of responsibilities on them, both raised only by the mother; there was no father, and both had to be the one to find a way to help the family. Now then the only contrast here is that Wright was successful in his work and career whereas Bigger made lots of trouble for himself and ended up in the worst position possible

There are no potential biases, the biography comes from biography.com, which gives the most important events of a person’s life but makes no judgements on them. The only limitation of this biography is that the author is unknown.

I don’t think there are any biases in the biography. They simply state his achievements and there are no statements that may controversial where a reader would feel the need to do their own personal research. Though, I wish the biography went more in depth about Wright such as the “odd jobs” he worked.

A potential bias could be the author of Wright’s biography. A limitation with the article is that the author isn’t specifically mentioned.

The source is accurate and realizable because this is his words and all. We get an insight of the person himself. Also we have no information about the author so it could be bias as well.

Not many bias to be reported, or any that I can spot. I think this is a credible source given that it’s only giving certain aspects of his life prior to being an author.

After reading the biography it seems like Richard Wright made Bigger in his image. I feel for the people that have been through similar things since their childhood like Wright. It makes me think that I really take my life for granted, and that I’m so lucky to have this life and exist in this time period. I also enjoyed the fact that Wright chased his dreams despite it being really difficult to do so at the time, it gave me a sense of motivation to peruse my own dreams.

Richard Wright’s biography gave me a great insight on him. The things I learned such as his upbringing and participation in the Communist Party help me better understand his novel Native Son.

I am very surprised that someone who only went up to 9th grade could learn on his own from reading how to articulate himself well and write 5 stories. I am also shocked that in order to borrow books from the public library, he had to forge notes to use his white coworkers card to get books. Something as simple as borrowing a library book was prohibited for black people which is extremely startling.

After I read the biography, I feel as if I understand him a lot more as a person, and I understand the texts that he wrote more. I see more insight on him, and how he grew up as a child. He chased his dreams no matter.

Honestly I was a little bothered after reading this criticism excerpt, but also a bit shocked because I just automatically thought everyone would sympathize with Bigger and the black community as a whole from Native Son. I was annoyed though because she judged very harshly, without even experiencing the things Wright did that made him write his Novel like that.

Words that are new to me are excoriated, caricatures, slew, and fare. I will start using them in discussions because James Baldwin used them to describe his feelings extremely well. When Baldwin used his words to describe his feelings of disgust, I felt it.

I was kind of mad after I read the criticism, because I think that it was unjust criticism. Bigger and the people around him have not done much wrong, considering the situation they are in. Richard Wright is portraying real problems, however I feel as if the criticism is not justified.

I was kind of upset while reading and see how no was on Bigger’s side at all because he did nothing wrong and it was all an accident. Situations such as this one happen in real life and many unfair events and trials take place as a result. Richard Wright essentially wrote about real things that happen.

Some new terms that were unfamiliar to me were “grotesque,” and “caricature,” but I searched up the definition and I will start using them in my discussions because they may help me describe what I mean in a more efficient way. The word “berserk” also came up and I think instead of incorrectly using words such as insane I could use the word berserk instead in a discussion.

Excoriated and grotesque are words I plan to incorporate in my discussions now. Also, a phrase I want to incorporate now is “white racial imagination”.

Two vocabulary terms I plan to use is “slew” and “tenant”. Tenant means a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord. This word I saw in “ Ballad of the Landlord” but I wasn’t really sure what it meant till I searched it up. Another word is slew it means to turn or slide violently or uncontrollably in a particular direction.

Some topics covered were the grotesque portrait Wright presented of black people in his novel, as well as the “ungenerous depiction” of a black person’s life. Mathis also discusses how Wright exaggerated his black characters to get white sympathizers.

Ayana Mathis talks about the target audience of the novel and how Bigger was used to gain sympathy from white readers. She also critiqued how Bigger was made a murderer and rapist which was already what people thought of most black men which she believed was degrading for a character and referred to Bigger as a “miserable and incompletely realized creature.”

Many topics were covered in the article. Violence, trauma, racism, and segregation were all topics mentioned in the article.

Exaggerating,Native Son, and different time periods

I learned that there are people like Mathis who completely disagree with the way Wright presented the life of a black person in his novel. This is a probably a result of Mathis having different experiences than Wright and not facing the same hardships as him that have lead him to come to such conclusions about black people. Mathis thinks he did not correctly present the black lifestyle the way it should be, according to her black people were presented in a grotesque way. This helps me better understand Native Son because although Bigger thought so badly about himself, not every black person during that time period and in present day have those same beliefs.

The way that Wright used Bigger as the main character but made him into a vulgar, undesirable person was not liked by some reviewers of the book. Anaya Mathis doesn’t think Wright should have used a murderer and rapist as his leader, especially to a dominantly white audience because it’ll make them think this is what black life is and this is who black people are.

The information I learned was that the characters in Native Son were exaggerated. This helped me notice that Wright exaggerated the characters to “shock into racial awareness”. This article also helps me show how black people during the 1930s lived.

Some things I learned was that living back then was more harsh and scary then now a days because a lot of things have changed throughout time. Richard went through a harder time than Ayana times back then were different there was more racial oppression and discrimination then now but it’s still here but it isn’t as bad as back then.

This relates to Native So because perhaps Max and Jan had a perspectives like this, they didn’t believe in what society made black people look like, just like Mathis doesn’t believe in what Wright is making black people to be. However, they’re also very different because this is a recent article, which means Mathis is not living in a time period where segregation is forced upon us, she did not live during the time period Wright lived in, she didn’t experience the same things he did, so their perception of black lives and how they live/act are significantly different.

This relates to Native Son because a few side characters like Mary and Jan did not like that black people were treated like this. Jan wanted to see change even though he didn’t fully come to an understanding and show true character development until Bigger was caught for killing Mary. Mathis also doesn’t think that black people should be represented in books like these as “ugly and debased.”

This texts is similar to Native Son, and Ballad of the Landlord because they discuss the racism blacks experienced.

This related to Bigger’s personality as a character, his decisions, and his actions. The way things on the article where worded different then in the book. Here the author is trying to portray Bigger and the black community as evil,wrong, and monster kind. Richard was trying to prove how oppression, racial discrimination, and other factors contribute to Bigger and the black community’s state of mind

This relates to Native Son because Jan was treated horribly when he supported Bigger. Max was also on Bigger’s side. James Baldwin is wrong in this situation in my opninon.

This is not a credible source, since it is a criticism excerpt, it is completely opinion based, not fact based. This is someone’s own perspective and interpretation of a novel. We could possibly use it when comparing people’s different views on Native Son yes, but when it comes to building an argument of our own, not the best choice since there are no facts or evidence to pick up from. It is completely biased, she speaks from her head and discusses her own thoughts on the novel and the topics discussed in the novel.

This article is completely bias. The whole point of the article was for Mathis to give her feedback and opinion on Native Son, which she did. This would not be credible source because it is an opinion based article which is influenced by her beliefs and preferences which may be very different from others reading the book.

The source is bias. The source is about Ayana Mathis’ opinion. The speaker sourced is Ayana Mathis. There are no issues with relevance or reliability. There are no limitations or questions not answered.