Read all of the secondary sources and one primary source. Write an essay in which you develop an argument about what your analysis of the primary source allows you to understand about race in the 20th and 21st centuries in America and how class has changed since the 17th century. As part of your argument, explain how your analysis of the primary source adds to or challenges the information and ideas about race in the secondary sources. Cite all your sources (primary and secondary) using APA style at the end of the essay. (500-700 words).
Secondary Sources (READ ALL)
From the American Yawp, read: “Race and Jacksonian Democracy,” “The decline of Northern slavery and the rise of the cotton kingdom,” “Antebellum western migration and Indian removal,” “War for emancipation, 1863-1865,” and “Politics of Reconstruction.” “Civil rights in an affluent society,” “The civil rights movement continues,” “Beyond civil rights,” “Racial, social, and cultural anxieties,” and “African American life in Reagan’s America.” (Locke, J. and Write, B, eds. (2017). The American yawp. (Locke, J. and Write, B., eds. (2017) The American yawp. Retrieved from http://www.americanyawp.com)
Roediger, D. (2014). “Whiteness and race.” Bayor, R. (Ed.) Oxford handbook of immigration and ethnicity. New York: Oxford University Press. (Available as a PDF attachment here and through Baruch Library electronic reserve).
19th Century Primary Sources (SELECT ONE)
Carlyle Indian Industrial School group photos. (1886, 1887). [Photographs] Retrieved from http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/290
Douglass, F. (1852). What to the Slave is the 4th of July. [Speech]. Retrieved from https://bcc-cuny.digication.com/ushistoryreader/Frederick_Douglass_What_to_the_Slave_is_the_4th_of
Jackson, A. (1829) First Message to Congress. [Speech] Retrieved from https://bcc-cuny.digication.com/ushistoryreader/First_Message_to_Congress_Andrew_Jackson
Tape, M. (1885). A Mother Protests Against the Denial of Equal Education. Retrieved from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=30
20th and 21st Century Primary Sources (SELECT ONE)
American Indian Center. (1969). Seizure of Alcatraz Island. Retrieved from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=721.
Bledsoe, J. (1959). Little Rock Rally. [Photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/26-the-affluent-society/1959-little-rock-rally/.
Chisholm, S. (1972). Presidential campaign announcement. (Video). Retrieved from https://www.c-span.org/video/?325324-2/1972-shirley-chisholm-presidential-campaign-announcement
X, M. (1964). The Ballot or the Bullet. [Book excerpt]. Retrieved from https://bcc-cuny.digication.com/ushistoryreader/Malcolm_X_The_Ballot_or_the_Bullet
Juarez, R. (1969). “The cycle of poverty: Mexican-American migrant farmworkers testify before Congress.” History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web. Retrieved from http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/7024
