{"id":182,"date":"2021-07-27T06:52:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T10:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/acr-150-literacy-in-american-society-contexts-practices-prof-barnes-fall-202\/?page_id=182"},"modified":"2023-10-30T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T17:57:10","slug":"week-12-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/acl-150-051w-f23-prof-barnes\/week-12-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10: Black\/ African-American Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Guiding questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has the Black\/ African-American community truly been afforded equal access to literacy necessary to be successful in a contemporary America?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How is literacy used as a hegemonic tool\/ tool of power? By whom? Against whom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can we help establish more equality for the Black\/ African-American community?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Activity 1<\/strong>: What do you know about Black\/ African-American history, culture, people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activity 2<\/strong>: Read \u201cWhy Slave-Era Barriers to Black Literacy Still Matter<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activity 3<\/strong>: Read<\/a> \u201cWith COVID-19, The African-American Literacy Crisis Will Get Much Worse\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

COVID19-and-African-American-Literacy2<\/a><\/div>\n

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Activity 4:<\/strong> Take one of the “impossible\u201d literacy tests<\/a> given to Black voters in the 1960s. Scroll down until you reach the instructions for the test: Try this<\/a> one: \u201cWrite every other word in this first line and print every third word in same line (original type smaller and first line ended at comma) but capitalize the fifth word that you write.\u201d Take the test that follows\u2013write down your answers on your device or on a piece of paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How did you do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activity 5<\/strong>: A masterpiece, Black Boy<\/em> is writer Richard Wright\u2019s autobiography, about life in America during the first half of the 20th century. This selection, \u201cThe Library Card,\u201d reveals the frightening experience he underwent in order to access books at the library. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read and listen to\u201cThe Library Card\u201d by Richard Wright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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