SS5H2 The student will analyze the effects of Reconstruction on American life. Explain how slavery was replaced by sharecropping and how African-Americ...moreSS5H2 The student will analyze the effects of Reconstruction on American life. Explain how slavery was replaced by sharecropping and how African-Americans were prevented from exercising their newly won rights; include a discussion of Jim Crow laws and customs. SS5H8 The student will describe the importance of key people, events, and developments between 1950-1975.
Explain the key events and people of the Civil Rights movement; include Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and civil rights activities of Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
A great the gives the rational and mentality of many African American males. Wright's issues and conceptualization is still going on today. A great book where students could compare today's injustice with the past. Also explain who relevant the book is for other African American Males to identify. (less)
SS5H2 The student will analyze the effects of Reconstruction on American life. Explain how slavery was replaced by sharecropping and how African-Americ...moreSS5H2 The student will analyze the effects of Reconstruction on American life. Explain how slavery was replaced by sharecropping and how African-Americans were prevented from exercising their newly won rights; include a discussion of Jim Crow laws and customs.
SS5H8 The student will describe the importance of key people, events, and developments between 1950-1975.
Explain the key events and people of the Civil Rights movement; include Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and civil rights activities of Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr.But Now I See gives the reader the opportunity to take a walk with white southern authors down the road of their racial wrongdoing to the moment of awakening.
Fred Hobson’s book contains four (4) well written and organized chapters of white southern racial conversion narratives. Hobson uses the titles in the chapter to symbolize and give a chronological representation of the South’s process of “conversion”, while taking the reader into the experience of “white southern culture” and the transformation of the “Southern” ideology. But Hobson’s brilliance is how he embeds the evolution of the racial conversion narrative.
This would be great for student's to use to write about the southern white perspective regarding slavery, segregation and inequality. Students can explain what caused certain authors road to enlightenment. Students can explain and support the causes of religion, its impact and the different relationships with God? (Horizontal and Vertical)Also students can write creative pieces regarding the treatment of whites who supported the civil rights movement.
Connections: Fred Hobson explores the white southern male psyche with confession narratives from Lilian Smith, James Mcbride Dabbs, Willie Morris, Larry L. King, William Styron and Will Campbell. These narrations give perspectives of the white southern male relationship of religion and redemption. Also gives interpretation of the preservation of “whiteness” and the white male’s duty to protect the white woman. In these confessions the readers has the privilege to see how white southerner males viewed religion, their position and how their ideologies transitioned their relationship to society to enlightenment.
Notable Quote: God intended for the South to be a “pilot project” in human brotherhood”(58) (less)
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