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AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE PART ONE: AFRICAN-AMERICA

ENGLISH IN ACTION. AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE PART ONE: AFRICAN-AMERICA. What does a “typical” American look like? Can we even ask that question?. Are there people of many different racial backgrounds in your home country?.

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AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE PART ONE: AFRICAN-AMERICA

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  1. ENGLISH IN ACTION AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTUREPART ONE: AFRICAN-AMERICA

  2. What does a “typical” American look like? Can we even ask that question?

  3. Are there people of many different racial backgrounds in your home country? The Golden Rule, 1961 by Norman Rockwell, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA.

  4. America is called the “Melting Pot.” Why? http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/themes/immigration/melting_pot.gif

  5. America is also called the “Salad Bowl.” What’s the difference? http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/themes/immigration/salad_bowl.gif&imgrefurl=http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/themes/immigration/theories.htm&usg=__1dpCB7ZJlNkB-5es8ODDrxKrp7Y=&h=374&w=300&sz=12&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=Y4wCcpik2FogAM:&tbnh=122&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAmerican%2Bsalad%2Bbowl%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

  6. Do many people with an African heritage live in your home country? Fanny Lou Hamer Lewis Latimer

  7. Black History on History.com Short African-American History

  8. Paul Robeson Bill Picket Nina Mae McKinney Herb Jeffries Spencer Williams Lucius Brooks Eddie Anderson Lena Horne Dorothy Dandridge Oscar Micheaux Lorenzo Tucker Sidney Poitier Harry Belafonte Wesley Snipes Angela Bassett Stacey Dash Whoopi Goldberg Halle Berry Will Smith African-Americans in the american cinema http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/movies.htm#top (starting at top and moving counter-clockwise)

  9. Jan. 19: Martin Luther King, Jr Day “I Have a Dream” Speech (Aug.28, 1963) – History.com http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/themes/immigration/salad_bowl.gif&imgrefurl=http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/themes/immigration/theories.htm&usg=__1dpCB7ZJlNkB-5es8ODDrxKrp7Y=&h=374&w=300&sz=12&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=Y4wCcpik2FogAM:&tbnh=122&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3DAmerican%2Bsalad%2Bbowl%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

  10. Jan.20: Inauguration of Barack Obama http://www.depauw.edu/photos/PhotoDB_Repository/2007/8/Barack%20Obama%20Capitol.jpg

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