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American Born Chinese for Monday: Reading Questions to Consider

Please remember for Monday, you should have finished the entirety of American Born Chinese. Some questions to consider: 1) How is this story like The Bluest Eye and Frankenstein and even The Outsiders? 2) In Frankenstein the two and three times removed narrator often … Continue reading

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The Duff

(A while ago Angelica shared this link to info about the CBS movie, The Duff.  It seems like a light mainstream teen movie that might be a good pop cultural of some of the ideas and themes we’ve been talking … Continue reading

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Your Bluest Eye

(Glendy shared this article with me.  “This Laser Will Change Your Eye Color” by Alexandra Perron  in Yahoo Beauty)  

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1930s Film History

For a nice timeline, check out this site: http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.html (pic below from http://www.filmsite.org/tarz.html)

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Women in the Depression Era

Check Out this Site:  http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/great-depression/essays/women-and-great-depression   (Image by Dorthea Lange [1930s Female Documentary Photographer] from her Migrant Farm Worker series.  Check out the Site: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/lange/dor12-113.htm) Migrant workers particularly their children seen as “problems” in the nation. Women take on new … Continue reading

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1930s Duke Ellington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyFDTEpP62c

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Oklahoma Sounds

I’m beginning to seriously suspect Oklahoma’s history telling capacities.  Let’s just say that it seems very reticent to tell a history about it’s non white residents.   To say nothing of the long suppression of the 1921 Race Riots which destroyed … Continue reading

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Oklahoma in the 60s

For those of you who are interested, here’s what looks like an elementary school chapbook on Oklahoma City.  It’s a chapter about the 60s.  Be warned, the history is very general, and what it has to say about the Civil … Continue reading

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1967 was just the beginning of the Black Power Movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxS3cNyKo00 So one of the things that is hard for me about The Outsiders is the curious absence of Native Americans and Black people, when in the 1960s, there were serious movements by both of these groups of people who … Continue reading

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Faceless Blue

  I’m struck by how the video almost never lets us see Blue’s face even though the song is about and for her and named after her.  We see lots of clips of Blue (her feet, legs, hair, etc), but … Continue reading

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