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African Americans in the 21 st Century

African American in 21st century

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Overview of some of the issues and cultural conflicts facing 21st century African Americans.

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African Americans in the 21st Century

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HOW WE GOT HERE: POST-RECONSTRUCTION

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A President Justifies the Klan

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The Nadir

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Slavery and Neo-Slavery

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Convict labor in steel and coal industries

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The Great Migration: hope for a better life

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But across America, Blacks are driven out…

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…and kept out

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Redlining in Chicago produces ghettos

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Unequal Implementation of the G.I. Bill of Rights and FHA Loans

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Structural Challenges to Social Mobility

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Dearth of Black Businesses in Black Neighborhoods

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African Americans and Prison

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Mass Incarceration: a new system of disenfranchisement?

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AFRICAN AMERICANS IN POP CULTURE

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“White Savior” stories

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“Magic” Negros

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Films Set in an All Black Universe

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The Remarkable Spike Lee

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The Black TV Family Evolves

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CONFLICTS AND CULTURAL DISTINCTIONS

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The Quest for “Good” Hair

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How many “black” Americas are there?

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My parents

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My wedding

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So, What Are YOU Anyway?

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Thanks!!

Lesley [email protected]

aalevanston.blogspot.com

mailto:[email protected]
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My Blog

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Selected Sources

Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America, by Ayana Byrd and Lori Tharp

Some of My Best Friends are Black, by Tanner Colby

Disintegration, by Eugene Robinson

Sundown Towns, by James Loewen

Slavery by Another Name, by Douglas Blackmon

The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabelle Wilkerson

The Century Cycle, by August Wilson

Men We Reaped, by Jesmyn Ward

The Pact, by Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins

The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander

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Our Black Year, by Maggie Anderson

The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t and Why, by Jabari Asim

“The Case for Reparations”, by Ta neshi Coates. Atlantic Magazine, June 2014

The Strange Career of Jim Crow by Vann C. Woodward

The Hidden Cost of Being African American, by Thomas M. Shapiro.

Who’s Afraid of Post Blackness? by Toure

The Covenant With Black America, edited by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West

Is Bill Cosby Right? : Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind? by Michael Eric Dyson

The Spike Lee Reader, Edited by Paula J. Massood

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Tatum

When Affirmative Action Was White, by Ira Kaznelson


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