Histories of Art, Race and Empire: 1492-1865

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 23.01.10

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Teaching Situation and Rationale
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Teaching Strategies and Activities
  5. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  6. Notes

This is America: Images and Histories of Racism and Exploitation

Adriana Lopez

Published September 2023

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Notes

1 “Black-Ish Juneteenth,” IMDb, October 3, 2017, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6882972/.

2 “This Is America,” YouTube (YouTube, 2018), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY.

3 “The Union Stockyards: ‘A Story of American Capitalism,’” WTTW Chicago, April 13, 2022, https://interactive.wttw.com/chicago-stories/union-stockyards/the-union-stockyards-a-story-of-american-capitalism.

4 “The Jungle,” The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, accessed July 28, 2023, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm.

5 “Is the Meatpacking Industry Getting Safer?” The United Food & Commercial Workers International Union, September 9, 2020, https://www.ufcw.org/is-the-meatpacking-industry-getting-safer/.

6 “Back of the Yards IB HS (9 - 12),” BACK OF THE YARDS IB HS | School Snapshot, accessed July 26, 2023, https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/School.aspx?schoolid=150162990250014.

7 BLM Transparency Center - Black Lives matter, accessed July 28, 2023, https://blacklivesmatter.com/transparency/.

8 Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? - mass humanities, accessed July 26, 2023, https://masshumanities.org/files/programs/douglass/speech_abridged_med.pdf.

9 Bloom B., “Peter (Formerly Identified as ‘Gordon’),” National Portrait Gallery, June 23, 2017, https://npg.si.edu/learn/classroom-resource/gordon-lifedates-unknown.

10 “Faces of Slavery: A Historical Find,” AMERICAN HERITAGE, July 1, 2023, https://www.americanheritage.com/faces-slavery-historical-find.

11 Wallis, Brian. “Black Bodies, White Science: Louis Agassiz’s Slave Daguerreotypes.” American Art 9, no. 2 (1995): 39–61. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3109184.

12 Nina Martyris, “Frederick Douglass on How Slave Owners Used Food as a Weapon of Control,” NPR, February 10, 2017, https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/10/514385071/frederick-douglass-on-how-slave-owners-used-food-as-a-weapon-of-control.otnote

13 “Phillis Wheatley,” National Portrait Gallery, accessed July 25, 2023, https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.77.2.

14 Strange fruit—Billie Holiday (1939) - library of Congress, accessed July 26, 2023, https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/documents/StrangeFruit_Blackburn.pdf.

15  Radio Diaries, “Strange Fruit: Anniversary of a Lynching,” NPR, August 6, 2010, https://www.npr.org/2010/08/06/129025516/strange-fruit-anniversary-of-a-lynching.

16 “Zip Coon,” The Library of Congress, accessed July 25, 2023, https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1834.360780/.

17 Gordon Parks, “Segregation in the South, 1956,” Gordon Parks Foundation, accessed July 25, 2023, https://www.gordonparksfoundation.org/gordon-parks/photography-archive/segregation-in-the-south-1956.

18 Ibid

19 Ibid

20 Ibid

21 James Van Der Zee, “The Van Der Zee Men, Lenox, Massachusetts,” Art Object Page, accessed July 25, 2023, https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.223852.html.

22 James Van Der Zee, “Beautiful Bride, c. 1930,” James Van der Zee’s photographs: A portrait of Harlem, accessed July 25, 2023, https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2021/james-van-der-zee-photographs-portrait-harlem.html.

23 Lorna Simpson, “Then & Now, 2016 Paintings 2015-16 - Lorna Simpson Studio,” Paintings 2015-16 - Lorna Simpson Studio, accessed July 25, 2023, https://lsimpsonstudio.com/paintings/paintings-2016.

24 Lorna Simpson, “Black America Again Gradient Series 2016 - Lorna Simpson Studio,” Gradient series 2016 - Lorna Simpson Studio, accessed July 26, 2023, https://lsimpsonstudio.com/paintings/gradient-series-2016.

25 Fabiola Jean-Louis, “Madame Beauvoir’s Painting Rewriting History Prints - Fabiola Jean-Louis,” Fabiola Jean-Louis, accessed July 25, 2023, http://www.fabiolajeanlouis.com/rewriting-history-color-prints.

26 Fabiola Jean-Louis, “Rest In Peace Rewriting History Prints - Fabiola Jean-Louis,” Fabiola Jean-Louis, accessed July 26, 2023, http://www.fabiolajeanlouis.com/rewriting-history-color-prints.

27 Sedrick Huckaby, If Perhaps by Chance I Find Myself Encaged | Yale University Art Gallery, accessed July 26, 2023, https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/230056.

28 Titus Kaphar, Another Fight for Remembrance | Yale University Art Gallery, accessed July 26, 2023, https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/211200.

29 Moore, Alicia L., and La Vonne I. Neal. “This Is America: Race, Revolution, and Resistance.” Black History Bulletin 82, no. 1 (2019): 4–5. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5323/blachistbull.82.1.0004.

30 Nina Martyris, “Frederick Douglass on How Slave Owners Used Food as a Weapon of Control,” NPR, February 10, 2017, https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/10/514385071/frederick-douglass-on-how-slave-owners-used-food-as-a-weapon-of-control.otnote

31 Ibid

32 Ibid

33 “Black-Ish Juneteenth,” IMDb, October 3, 2017, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6882972/.

34 Ibid

35 Negroes for sale. will be sold at public auction ... - library of Congress, accessed July 28, 2023, https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.00103300/?st=gallery.

36 Elizabeth Blair, “The Strange Story of the Man behind ‘Strange Fruit,’” NPR, September 5, 2012, https://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/158933012/the-strange-story-of-the-man-behind-strange-fruit.

37 Stone, Chris. “Blood at the Root: ‘Strange Fruit’ as Historical Document and Pedagogical Tool.” OAH Magazine of History 18, no. 2 (2004): 54–56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25163665.

38 ApertureWS, “Aperture Magazine 223 ‘Vision & Justice’: Sarah Lewis Guest Editor Note,” Aperture, May 4, 2021, https://aperture.org/editorial/vision-justice/.

39 “Lovecraft Country EP 1: Sundown: Official Website for the HBO Series,” HBO, accessed July 28, 2023, https://www.hbo.com/lovecraft-country/season-1/1-sundown.

40 “Cold Case Strange Fruit,” IMDb, April 3, 2005, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0543952/.

41 “Slaying New Black Notions” (This is America) Ladan Osman. “Slaying New Black Notions: Childish Gambino’s ‘This Is America.’” World Literature Today 92, no. 4 (2018): 40–41. https://doi.org/10.7588/worllitetoda.92.4.0040.

42 Picture of Donald Glover and Frederick Douglass “This is America” Moore, Alicia L., and La Vonne I. Neal. “This Is America: Race, Revolution, and Resistance.” Black History Bulletin 82, no. 1 (2019): 4–5. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5323/blachistbull.82.1.0004.

43  Jonah Valdez, “Jill Scott’s Remixed National Anthem Goes Viral after Performance at Essence Festival,” Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2023, https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-07-05/jill-scott-revises-anthem-the-home-of-the-slave.

44 “The Twilight Zone Replay,” IMDb, April 11, 2019, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5307870/.

45 “5 Meaningful, Standards-Based SEL Activities for the Classroom,” CASEL, April 12, 2023, https://casel.org/blog/5-meaningful-standards-based-sel-activities-for-the-classroom/.

46 “SCSU Hilton C. Buley Library: Human Library: What Is the Human Library?,” What is the Human Library? - Human Library - SCSU Hilton C. Buley Library at Southern Connecticut State University, accessed July 27, 2023, https://libguides.southernct.edu/c.php?g=960661&p=6936949.

47 Laura Driscoll, “10 Student Check-in Activities to Connect and Understand,” Social Emotional Workshop, July 19, 2023, https://www.socialemotionalworkshop.com/student-check-in-activities/.

48 “Zip, Zap, Zoom,” Club Programs, accessed July 27, 2023, https://www.clubprograms.org/staff-practices/quick-tools/zip-zap-zoom.

49 “5 Meaningful, Standards-Based SEL Activities for the Classroom,” CASEL, April 12, 2023, https://casel.org/blog/5-meaningful-standards-based-sel-activities-for-the-classroom/.

50 “Teacher’s Guides and Analysis Tool:  Getting Started with Primary Sources:  Teachers:  Programs: Library of Congress,” The Library of Congress, accessed July 26, 2023, https://www.loc.gov/programs/teachers/getting-started-with-primary-sources/guides/.

51 Ibid

52 The Golden Line and last word protocols for discussing a text, accessed July 27, 2023, https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/issa/wp-content/uploads/sites/1187/2018/09/The-Golden-Line-Tool.pdf.

53 “How to Do a Close Reading,” writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu, accessed July 27, 2023, https://writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu/pages/how-do-close-reading.

54 Ibid

55 Resource sheet: Claim-evidence-reasoning (CER), accessed July 27, 2023, https://blossoms.mit.edu/sites/default/files/video/download/CER-Resource-Sheet.pdf.

56 “How Do I Chunk Content to Increase Learning?,” Center for Teaching & Learning : UMass Amherst, accessed July 27, 2023, https://www.umass.edu/ctl/resources/how-do-i/how-do-i-chunk-content-increase-learning.

57 Laura Driscoll, “10 Student Check-in Activities to Connect and Understand,” Social Emotional Workshop, July 19, 2023, https://www.socialemotionalworkshop.com/student-check-in-activities/.

58 ELA standards - isbe.net, accessed July 27, 2023, https://www.isbe.net/Documents/ela-standards.pdf.

59 Ibid

60 Ibid

61 Ibid

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