Like this:

Listen, America–
I live here, too.
I want freedom
Just as you.

From “The American Dream” by Langston Hughes 

Read an interesting article on Racism in the 20th century: White Riots

Here you’ll find interesting information on the project of black literature. To start with, first click on: http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/resources/overview.htm . On this page click on “Roads to Freedom”…

Or read the original “I have a dream”-speech of Martin Luther King: http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html

Or watch and listen! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1732754907698549493

The assignment for this project has been discussed in class. Here are the main points:

1. maak een werkstuk over een thema/onderwerp uit de Afro-American and African Literature
2. werk samen met een klasgenoot en pak het meteen goed aan want met dit werkstuk kun je scoren!
3. geef steeds je eigen mening (ook belangrijk voor je eindcijfer!) en geef duidelijk aan welk deel van wie is en wiens mening wordt gegeven
4. bereid je grondig voor: gebruik meerdere bronnen (boeken, films, kranten, internet)
5. lees 2 boeken over thema’s uit de Afro-American and African Literature
6. bekijk zoveel mogelijk films over deze thema’s
7. bestudeer intensief de syllabus:

• Geschiedenis van Burgerrechten in Noord-Amerika, p. 5 t/m 17
• Geschiedenis van de Strijd tegen de Apartheid, p. 18 t/m 30
• Geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten, 1973-heden, p.31 t/m 36
• Afro-Amerikaanse Literatuur, p.49 t/m 56
• Emergence of the Black Writer Storyteller, p.57 t/m 67

Make sure your file looks fantastic! So:

• Make a terrific FRONT PAGE
• Insert a CONTENTS page
• Add photos and/or drawings
• Add your own opinion wherever necessary
• Write a clear CONCLUSION
• Add anything EXTRA

…and don’t forget:

• EVERYTHING HAS TO BE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH!
• COPY AND PASTE FROM INTERNET is not allowed; if you do it anyway it will cost you points!

HAND IN DATE: 11-2011

• Before you hand it in you have your work checked by your teacher
• If you don’t hand in your work on time 1 point will be substracted for each and every day that you hand it in later.

Replacement Assignment for students who have done this project before:

• Read 1 book on an Afro-American and African Literature theme (which is another book than you read last year)
• Make a file on this book and hand it in together with last year’s project file

LITERATURE LIST

For the Black Literature project you will have to read 2 books on  Afro-American and African Literature themes. This is the list you can choose from. You are allowed to choose another book yourself but then you will have to discuss this with the teacher first. A good starting point for your work would be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_literature

• Maya Angelou – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Maya Angelou - Gather together in my Name 
• Maya Angelou – The Heart of a Woman
• James Baldwin – If Beale street could talk
• James Baldwin – Go Tell it on the Mountain
• John Briley – Cry Freedom (apartheid)
• Andre Brink – A Dry White Season (apartheid)
• J.M. Coetzee – Disgrace (post-Apartheid)
• Thomas Dixon Jr. – The Clansman (Ku Klux Klan)
• Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
• Albert French – Billy
• Athol Fugard – Tsotsi
• Lisa Fugard – Skinner’s Drift
• Nikki Giovanni – Don’t have a Baby till you read This
• Alex Hayley – Roots (slavery)
• Harriet Jacobs – Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (plantations)
• Edward P. Jones – The Known World
• Malcolm X – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• Nelson Mandela – The Long Walk to Freedom (apartheid)
• Winnie Mandela – Struggle is my Life
• Toni Morrison – Beloved
• Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
• Gloria Naylor – The Women of Brewster Place
• Alan Paton – Cry, the beloved Country
• Jean Toomer – Cane
• Alice Walker – The Color Purple
• Donald Woods – Biko (apartheid)
• Richard Wright – Native Son
• Richard Wright – Black Boy

Poetry

• Langston Hughes
• Nikki Giovanni

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