everything will be uploaded. all rubrics and organizer

need to have a strong thesis

there is also a powerpoint presentation. there is a powerpoint that is uploaded to show what goes on each slide. a rubric will be uploaded for the powerpoint as well

Possible texts to choose from

The landscape of the South-symbols of struggle, and race and gender identification

Any text set in the South where the environment is important

“The color line,” intraracialization (prejudice within the race)

Charles Chesnutt, Chapters from Plum Bun (Angela, Virginia, and Mrs. Murray)

Male-female relationships in AA literature

Abuse in AA literature

Domestic violence in AA literature

“Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston

“Like a Winding Sheet” by Ann Petry

James Baldwin, IF Beale Street Could Talk excerpt

Trailer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4m3t3G3Zqc

Beverly Jenkins, romance and historical fiction in Captured

Struggles due to a “Negro problem”

Among authors who express that life’s problems are due simply to race:

Charles Chesnutt

Richard Wright, Black Boy

Ralph Ellison

Socio-economic oppression and its impact upon characters

Rural versus urban: the impact of the Great Migration as represented by …

Richard Wright, Black Boy

Religious domination and overbearance

James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”

Racial profiling, violence

Police brutality

Lynchings

Race riot literature

Biography of Claude McKay “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay

Angelina Weld Grimke A Winter Twilight, The Black Finger, When the Green Lies over the Earth, Tenebris

Rachel, A Play in Three Acts, https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/269604.Ang… eld_Grimke

CHARLES W. CHESNUTT (1858–1932) The Marrow of Tradition http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11228/pg11228images.htm

Georgia Douglas Johnson

• Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the first anti-lynching

activists.

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/segregatio n/text3/sundaymorningsouth.pdf

Richard N. Wright, the author

“Between the World and Me” Poem

Sin, transgression, repentance, redemption, and salvation

James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues” along

An evangelistic tone

James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”

The rhetoric of a sermon: teaching

James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”

Black music and the vernacular

James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Use of biblical allusions and imagery

James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”

The condition of the African American family through the struggle for civil rights:

Father-son relationships

Mother-daughter relationships

Sister-brother relationships

Toni Cade Bambara, “Raymond’s Run,” 2077

The voice of protest in Black arts poetry /fiction: Explain your interpretation of the messages in the lyrics of poetry or rap, or in a short story or chapter.

Amiri Baraka: “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note,” “ A Poem for Black Hearts,” and “Black Art,” p. 1939-1943

The Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”

Nikki Giovanni

Duke Bootee , The Poetics and Legacies of Hip-Hop Literature and Urban Realism

The use of radical language by Amiri Baraka in “Black Art”: Effective or destructive?

Expressions of black power in the poetry/fiction/speeches of…

Amiri Baraka: “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note,” “ A Poem for Black Hearts,” and “Black Art,” p. 1939-1943

Womanism

Women’s voices and portrayals

Feisty girls

Bonding

Ann Petry, “Like a Winding Sheet,” Chapter 1 from The Street, “The Apartment”

“Raymond’s Run”

Toni Cade Bambara, “Raymond’s Run,” 2077, from The Salt Eaters, 2082

Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place, pp. 2585-2611

Black on black man conflicts

Pick a text where applicable

Gender differences

Ann Petry, “Like a Winding Sheet,” Chapter 1 from The Street, “The Apartment”

Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place, pp. 2585-2611

Sexual identity, lesbianism

Angela Weld Grimke

Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place, pp. 2585-2611

youngbloods vs. experience, generational differences in the struggle to overcome oppression, racism, etc.

Ralph Ellison, Chapter 1 from Invisible Man, “Battle Royal”

In what ways does the work articulate a cry for change?

Tupac

Saul Williams, slam poetry

Duke Bootee , The Poetics and Legacies of Hip-Hop Literature and Urban Realism

Can contemporary poetry/fiction reflect upon the past?

Hip-hop literature, power, social justice, and poetics

Harryette Mullen, “The queen of hip-hop hyperbole” (quote by Sandra Cisneros) pp.2636-2644, 2^nd ed.; pp. 1382-1391, 3^rd ed., Vol. 2

Tupac

Overview and criticism: http://www.writersalon.com/literary_criticism/poetic-analysis-of-tupac-shakur

https://genius.com/2pac-changes-lyrics

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, “the poet laureate of hip-hop”

“Blood” https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107859545053/

https://lithub.com/black-protest-writing-from-w-e-b-dubois-to-kendrick-lamar/#

Natasha Trethewey

Biography– https://poets.org/poet/natasha-trethewey

https://poets.org/poem/pilgrimage

https://poets.org/poem/letter-home

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/domestic-work-1937/

Colson Whitehead

“The Match,” an excerpt from “The Nickel Boys–Audio and text

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/the-match

Jerico Brown

https://www.jerichobrown.com/

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/05/05/jericho-brown-reads-his-pulitzer-prize-winning-poems/

https://poets.org/poem/tradition