The Idea of America

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 11.03.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Rationale
  2. The Unit
  3. School Demographics
  4. Background
  5. Strategies
  6. Lesson Plans
  7. Appendix 1
  8. Local Standards
  9. Appendix 2 – Graphic Organizers
  10. Bibliography

The Hip-Hopcracy of America

Rodney Alexander Robinson

Published September 2011

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Bibliography

Davis, David Brion, and Steven Mintz. The Boisterous Sea of Liberty. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Boston: Bedford Books of St Martin, 1856.

Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998.

Hughes, Lanston, and Milton Meltzer. A Pictorial History of the Negro in America. New York: Crown Publishing, 1956.

Martinez, Ruben. Crossing Over: A mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2001.

Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901.

Scarpaci, Vincenza. The journey of Italians in America. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 2008.

Schneider, Dorothy J, and Carl Schneider. Slavery in America. New York, 2007.

Somers-Willet, Susan B.A. The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Toqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1969.

Zinn, Howard, and Anthony Arnove. Voices of A People's History of The United States. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004.

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