Discussion 5 Assignment
- Post at least one question/point in response to Lecture 5.
- In the conclusion of Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple, the narrator Celie says that the Fourth of July is not about celebrating American independence, but it’s about celebrating “us.” What do you think she means by this?
- Post at least one question/point about anything you have read in this unit.
- What is the most significant thing you’ve learned from studying this unit?
Lecture 5 Video: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/4268a8f4-9c5…
*(I need this done within 3 hours or less. I’d prefer if this got done less than 3 hours)
Pages to help you with Discussion Assignment and Essay
Volume 1
- Sojourner Truth, “Speech to the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, 1851,” p. 832
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, pp.878-900
- Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”, pp. 996–1000, 1066–1070
Volume 2
- Booker T. Washington’s speech “The Atlanta Exposition Address” in Up from Slavery, pp. 469–479
- E.B. Du Bois, “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” in The Souls of Black Folk, pp.559-561, 568–578
- Charles W. Chestnutt, “The Wife of His Youth,” pp. 479–481, 488–497
- Paul Laurence Dunbar, “We Wear the Mask,: pp. 633, 636
- Claude McKay, “If We Must Die,” pp. 934–936, 937
- Zora Neale Hurston, “Sweat,” pp. 948–958
- Countee Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel,” pp. 105–-1054
- Richard Wright, “The Man Who Was Almost a Man,” pp. 1060–1070
- Robert Hayden, “Middle Passage,” pp. 1188–1192
- James Baldwin, “Going to Meet the Man,” pp. 1328–1338
- Toni Morrison, “Recitatif,” pp. 1403–1415
- Alice Walker, “Everyday Use,” pp. 1531–1536
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