Your final assignment for this documentary will be the following -
-- Create a glogster.
If you don't know your glogster account, you can use mine.
Go to: www.glogster.com
User: dsendaydiego
Password: teachers1
-- Talk to Ms. S about which topic you want. Every topic needs to be covered so there can't be a bunch of repeats.
-- Choose from the following topics to research:
* White flight
* Housing segregration in LA
* Slavery
* Second migration of African Americans to the West Coast
* LAPD & Police Brutality
* Blank Panthers
* US Organization
* Gang Prevention/Remediation
-- Guidlines for Glogster
* Include a picture
* Summarize your topic (3-4 sentences)
* Explain the connection of your topic to the creation of Bloods/Crips.
* Summarize Bastards of the Party (2-3 sentences) and explain what you learned from the documentary.
-- Post your Glogster on your Lit through Film Blog! Show Ms. S once it is posted.
-- DUE AT THE END OF THE PERIOD TODAY.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Tuesday, August 30
Good morning. Today we need to finish watching Bastards of the Party. Your final assignment for this documentary will be the following -
-- Create a glogster.
-- Talk to Ms. S about which topic you want. Every topic needs to be covered so there can't be a bunch of repeats.
-- Choose from the following topics to research:
* White flight
* Housing segregration in LA
* Slavery
* Second migration of African Americans to the West Coast
* LAPD & Police Brutality
* Blank Panthers
* US Organization
* Gang Prevention/Remediation
-- Guidlines for Glogster
* Include a picture
* Summarize your topic (3-4 sentences)
* Explain the connection of your topic to the creation of Bloods/Crips.
* Summarize Bastards of the Party (2-3 sentences) and explain what you learned from the documentary.
------------ This assignment will be due in class tomorrow --------------------------
-- Create a glogster.
-- Talk to Ms. S about which topic you want. Every topic needs to be covered so there can't be a bunch of repeats.
-- Choose from the following topics to research:
* White flight
* Housing segregration in LA
* Slavery
* Second migration of African Americans to the West Coast
* LAPD & Police Brutality
* Blank Panthers
* US Organization
* Gang Prevention/Remediation
-- Guidlines for Glogster
* Include a picture
* Summarize your topic (3-4 sentences)
* Explain the connection of your topic to the creation of Bloods/Crips.
* Summarize Bastards of the Party (2-3 sentences) and explain what you learned from the documentary.
------------ This assignment will be due in class tomorrow --------------------------
Monday, August 29, 2011
Monday, August 29
Bastards of the Party was inspired by a book by Mike Davis called City of Quartz. This book helped to explain the rise of the Bloods/Crips and what circumstances existed in Los Angeles that had such gangs get created.
For your morning assignment before we finish the movie (we have about 20 minutes left so need to start around 8:40), read the following excerpt -
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African Americans' pursuit of equality and opportunity in Los Angeles has been shaped by at least three distinctive features of the city's history: its diverse racial composition, its dynamic economic growth, and its dispersive spatial arrangement.
First, Los Angeles's magnetic appeal to successive waves of Latin American, Asian, and European immigrants ensured that the black freedom struggle would develop in a strikingly multiracial context. Thanks to a growing body of rich scholarship by Kevin Leonard, Douglas Monroy, George Sánchez, Mark Wild, and others, we have a much clearer understanding of the contours of Los Angeles's diverse population, including its largest minority group, Mexicans.18 Yet the extent to which the multiracial character of the city affected opportunity for African Americans is generally less understood.
The effect of this racial diversity on blacks in Los Angeles has not been static; rather, it has changed through both time and space. Before World War II, most African Americans in Los Angeles lived among and interacted with Mexicans, Japanese, Italians, Jews, and the city's small Chinese population. This arrangement, coupled with the vast size and low population density of the city, mitigated the harshest social and psychological effects of racial segregation by diffusing the racial animosity usually reserved exclusively for blacks in other cities. Economically, however, the multiracial character of the city worked against blacks by generating increased competition for the menial labor and manufacturing jobs that would have gone to them easily in a city like Chicago or Detroit. After World War II, the vast influx of blacks and the changing social status of other racial and ethnic groups in Los Angeles created a situation where black isolation, rather than the multiracial integration of the prewar era, became more common. As industrial employment opportunities for nonwhites expanded in the two decades after the war, African Americans increasingly understood Mexicans to be competitors for coveted jobs. Between the 1920s and the 1970s, the multiracial character of Los Angeles moved from being a qualified blessing to a qualified curse for blacks, particularly those in blue-collar occupations.
Second, while histories of the rust belt north emphasize the crucial role of deindustrialization and overall urban economic decline in perpetuating racial inequality, the story in Los Angeles is far more complicated. In striking contrast to the steady decline in manufacturing jobs that began in the 1950s in Chicago and Detroit, Los Angeles gained thousands of new manufacturing jobs through the 1970s, thanks in large part to the crucial aerospace industry. Like its northern counterparts, however, Los Angeles did lose many of its automobile, steel, and rubber tire plants during and shortly after the recession of the mid-1970s. Beginning during World War II, African Americans in Los Angeles had fought for complete integration into these jobs, and by the 1970s they had achieved a measure of success. More important, these jobs had created the economic foundations for a rising class of homeowning, blue-collar black workers. Thus, the swift disappearance of those jobs was traumatic for an important element of black Los Angeles.
But the decline in these older smokestack industries cannot alone sufficiently explain persistent racial inequality; in fact, even as Los Angeles was suffering this selective deindustrialization, it was also experiencing a dynamic wave of reindustrialization.19 Starting in the 1960s, a new wave of both very high-skill and very low-skill manufacturing industries, along with the expansion of retail and service industries, created thousands of new jobs in Los Angeles and Southern California in general, allowing both the city and the region to weather the recession better than most American cities. But, again, blacks found that they did not share equally in Southern California's continuing economic boom. That such inequality persisted despite the creation of new jobs suggests that just as African Americans were challenging and conquering relics of historic discrimination, new barriers emerged. Although race "declined in significance," to use William Julius Wilson's oft-quoted phrase, blackness continued to be a significant handicap long after legal segregation ended.20
Finally, the dispersive spatiality of Los Angeles greatly influenced the opportunities available to African Americans, sometimes concretely and other times perceptually. Before World War II, the vast geographic size and relatively low population density of Los Angeles distinguished it from other major American metropolises. This dispersion, combined with the proportionally small size of the black population, the rigid racial segregation of the workplace, and the city's heavy dependence on private rather than public transportation, created an atmosphere in which compulsory social interaction between blacks and whites was minimized, thereby allowing black residents in prewar Los Angeles to avert many of the racially degrading or violent encounters typical in other cities. For blacks in Los Angeles, and their friends and families who visited, this distinction was palpable and lent some credence to their glowing characterizations of opportunity in the city.
Paradoxically, however, it also allowed civic leaders and whites in general to completely ignore the rising cost of racial segregation. African Americans remained essentially out of sight and out of mind until World War II, when the sheer volume of black migration finally forced white Los Angeles to recognize the consequences of housing segregation in the overcrowded slums of Little Tokyo. But even as civic leaders grappled with the problems of segregation, many white residents and homeowners responded to the flood of black migrants by more aggressively defending racial segregation in both public and private spaces. Thus, whatever benefits blacks accrued from the city's special arrangement prior to World War II quickly disappeared in the postwar years.
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In your blogs, complete the following assignment:
Blog Title: City of Quartz summary
Assignment:
There are three reasons listed as to the why the disenfranchisment of African Americans occurred. Summarize each reason in two sentences per reason.
Reason 1 - Diverse racial composition
Reason 2 - Dynamic economic growth
Reason 3 - Dispersive spatial arrangement
For your morning assignment before we finish the movie (we have about 20 minutes left so need to start around 8:40), read the following excerpt -
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African Americans' pursuit of equality and opportunity in Los Angeles has been shaped by at least three distinctive features of the city's history: its diverse racial composition, its dynamic economic growth, and its dispersive spatial arrangement.
First, Los Angeles's magnetic appeal to successive waves of Latin American, Asian, and European immigrants ensured that the black freedom struggle would develop in a strikingly multiracial context. Thanks to a growing body of rich scholarship by Kevin Leonard, Douglas Monroy, George Sánchez, Mark Wild, and others, we have a much clearer understanding of the contours of Los Angeles's diverse population, including its largest minority group, Mexicans.18 Yet the extent to which the multiracial character of the city affected opportunity for African Americans is generally less understood.
The effect of this racial diversity on blacks in Los Angeles has not been static; rather, it has changed through both time and space. Before World War II, most African Americans in Los Angeles lived among and interacted with Mexicans, Japanese, Italians, Jews, and the city's small Chinese population. This arrangement, coupled with the vast size and low population density of the city, mitigated the harshest social and psychological effects of racial segregation by diffusing the racial animosity usually reserved exclusively for blacks in other cities. Economically, however, the multiracial character of the city worked against blacks by generating increased competition for the menial labor and manufacturing jobs that would have gone to them easily in a city like Chicago or Detroit. After World War II, the vast influx of blacks and the changing social status of other racial and ethnic groups in Los Angeles created a situation where black isolation, rather than the multiracial integration of the prewar era, became more common. As industrial employment opportunities for nonwhites expanded in the two decades after the war, African Americans increasingly understood Mexicans to be competitors for coveted jobs. Between the 1920s and the 1970s, the multiracial character of Los Angeles moved from being a qualified blessing to a qualified curse for blacks, particularly those in blue-collar occupations.
Second, while histories of the rust belt north emphasize the crucial role of deindustrialization and overall urban economic decline in perpetuating racial inequality, the story in Los Angeles is far more complicated. In striking contrast to the steady decline in manufacturing jobs that began in the 1950s in Chicago and Detroit, Los Angeles gained thousands of new manufacturing jobs through the 1970s, thanks in large part to the crucial aerospace industry. Like its northern counterparts, however, Los Angeles did lose many of its automobile, steel, and rubber tire plants during and shortly after the recession of the mid-1970s. Beginning during World War II, African Americans in Los Angeles had fought for complete integration into these jobs, and by the 1970s they had achieved a measure of success. More important, these jobs had created the economic foundations for a rising class of homeowning, blue-collar black workers. Thus, the swift disappearance of those jobs was traumatic for an important element of black Los Angeles.
But the decline in these older smokestack industries cannot alone sufficiently explain persistent racial inequality; in fact, even as Los Angeles was suffering this selective deindustrialization, it was also experiencing a dynamic wave of reindustrialization.19 Starting in the 1960s, a new wave of both very high-skill and very low-skill manufacturing industries, along with the expansion of retail and service industries, created thousands of new jobs in Los Angeles and Southern California in general, allowing both the city and the region to weather the recession better than most American cities. But, again, blacks found that they did not share equally in Southern California's continuing economic boom. That such inequality persisted despite the creation of new jobs suggests that just as African Americans were challenging and conquering relics of historic discrimination, new barriers emerged. Although race "declined in significance," to use William Julius Wilson's oft-quoted phrase, blackness continued to be a significant handicap long after legal segregation ended.20
Finally, the dispersive spatiality of Los Angeles greatly influenced the opportunities available to African Americans, sometimes concretely and other times perceptually. Before World War II, the vast geographic size and relatively low population density of Los Angeles distinguished it from other major American metropolises. This dispersion, combined with the proportionally small size of the black population, the rigid racial segregation of the workplace, and the city's heavy dependence on private rather than public transportation, created an atmosphere in which compulsory social interaction between blacks and whites was minimized, thereby allowing black residents in prewar Los Angeles to avert many of the racially degrading or violent encounters typical in other cities. For blacks in Los Angeles, and their friends and families who visited, this distinction was palpable and lent some credence to their glowing characterizations of opportunity in the city.
Paradoxically, however, it also allowed civic leaders and whites in general to completely ignore the rising cost of racial segregation. African Americans remained essentially out of sight and out of mind until World War II, when the sheer volume of black migration finally forced white Los Angeles to recognize the consequences of housing segregation in the overcrowded slums of Little Tokyo. But even as civic leaders grappled with the problems of segregation, many white residents and homeowners responded to the flood of black migrants by more aggressively defending racial segregation in both public and private spaces. Thus, whatever benefits blacks accrued from the city's special arrangement prior to World War II quickly disappeared in the postwar years.
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In your blogs, complete the following assignment:
Blog Title: City of Quartz summary
Assignment:
There are three reasons listed as to the why the disenfranchisment of African Americans occurred. Summarize each reason in two sentences per reason.
Reason 1 - Diverse racial composition
Reason 2 - Dynamic economic growth
Reason 3 - Dispersive spatial arrangement
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thursday, August 25
Good morning!
As you come in, here is your assignment before we continue watching Bastards of the Party -
You will be completing Living History Research Cards again.
Complete research cards (which contain a picture & 3 facts per topic) for the following topics:
-- Vietnam War (Why is this considered a racist war?)
-- Los Angeles Police Department& Police Brutality
-- 1965 LA Riots
-- Blank Panthers
-- "Bunchy" Carter
Research Card document is posted on Edmodo.
As you come in, here is your assignment before we continue watching Bastards of the Party -
You will be completing Living History Research Cards again.
Complete research cards (which contain a picture & 3 facts per topic) for the following topics:
-- Vietnam War (Why is this considered a racist war?)
-- Los Angeles Police Department& Police Brutality
-- 1965 LA Riots
-- Blank Panthers
-- "Bunchy" Carter
Research Card document is posted on Edmodo.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Wednesday, August 24
Good morning!
We will continue watching Bastards of the Party. However, before we begin, you need to complete the following assignment in your blogs.
Blog Title: Gangs in the News
Assignment:
*** Find a news article (go to google.com and click on the 'news' tab) that is about gang violence/activity in our community, California, or throughout the country.
*** Copy the URL and the title of the article for your blog.
*** Read the article and then summarize the article in 5 sentences.
We will continue watching Bastards of the Party. However, before we begin, you need to complete the following assignment in your blogs.
Blog Title: Gangs in the News
Assignment:
*** Find a news article (go to google.com and click on the 'news' tab) that is about gang violence/activity in our community, California, or throughout the country.
*** Copy the URL and the title of the article for your blog.
*** Read the article and then summarize the article in 5 sentences.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Tuesday, August 23
Good morning!
First things first, join your Home Room Edmodo class!
Film Studies - gdikgu
Before we begin watching today's selection of Bastards of the Party, I want you to do a quick review on some of the key concepts that were discussed in the documentary yesterday -
Research and write 2-3 sentences that explains the what each of the following topics are, their significance, and why they were issues brought up in the film.
1) Police chief William H. Parker
2) Second Migration of African Americans (out of the South --- to places like LA)
3) White Flight
First things first, join your Home Room Edmodo class!
Film Studies - gdikgu
Before we begin watching today's selection of Bastards of the Party, I want you to do a quick review on some of the key concepts that were discussed in the documentary yesterday -
Research and write 2-3 sentences that explains the what each of the following topics are, their significance, and why they were issues brought up in the film.
1) Police chief William H. Parker
2) Second Migration of African Americans (out of the South --- to places like LA)
3) White Flight
Monday, August 22, 2011
Monday, August 22
Good morning!
Today, we are beginning to watch Bastards of the Party.
Summary of the movie:
Raised in the Athens Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Cle “Bone” Sloan was four years old when his father died, and 12 when he became a member of the Bloods. Now an inactive member of the notorious gang, Sloan looks back at the history of black gangs in his city and makes a powerful call for change in modern gang culture with his insightful documentary, Bastards of the Party.
Bastards of the Party draws its title from this passage in “City of Quartz”: “The Crips and the Bloods are the bastard offspring of the political parties of the ’60s. Most of the gangs were born out of the demise of those parties. Out of the ashes of the Black Panther Party came the Crips and the Bloods and the other gangs.”
Bastards of the Party traces the timeline from that “great migration” to the rise and demise of both the Black Panther Party and the US Organization in the mid- 1960s, to the formation of what is currently the culture of gangs in Los Angeles and around the world.
The documentary also chronicles the role of the Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI in the evolution of gang culture. During his tenure from 1950 to 1966, Chief Robert Parker bolstered the ranks of the LAPD with white recruits from the south, who brought their racist attitudes with them. Parker’s racist sympathies laid the groundwork for the volatile relationship between the black community and the LAPD that persists today.
In your blogs, complete the following assignment -
Blog Title - Background on Gangs
Assignment -
Answer the following journal prompt:
*** What do you know about gangs?
*** What is your experience with gangs? Think about your community, your personal experiences, and what you've seen/learned through news/movies/etc.
Today, we are beginning to watch Bastards of the Party.
Summary of the movie:
Raised in the Athens Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Cle “Bone” Sloan was four years old when his father died, and 12 when he became a member of the Bloods. Now an inactive member of the notorious gang, Sloan looks back at the history of black gangs in his city and makes a powerful call for change in modern gang culture with his insightful documentary, Bastards of the Party.
Bastards of the Party draws its title from this passage in “City of Quartz”: “The Crips and the Bloods are the bastard offspring of the political parties of the ’60s. Most of the gangs were born out of the demise of those parties. Out of the ashes of the Black Panther Party came the Crips and the Bloods and the other gangs.”
Bastards of the Party traces the timeline from that “great migration” to the rise and demise of both the Black Panther Party and the US Organization in the mid- 1960s, to the formation of what is currently the culture of gangs in Los Angeles and around the world.
The documentary also chronicles the role of the Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI in the evolution of gang culture. During his tenure from 1950 to 1966, Chief Robert Parker bolstered the ranks of the LAPD with white recruits from the south, who brought their racist attitudes with them. Parker’s racist sympathies laid the groundwork for the volatile relationship between the black community and the LAPD that persists today.
In your blogs, complete the following assignment -
Blog Title - Background on Gangs
Assignment -
Answer the following journal prompt:
*** What do you know about gangs?
*** What is your experience with gangs? Think about your community, your personal experiences, and what you've seen/learned through news/movies/etc.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Thursday, August 4
Good morning! Today we have to finish watching Under the Same Moon. For your assignment today, please complete the following:
Blog Title - Under the Same Moon - Movie Review
Assignment -
*** How did you like this movie? What did you like about it? What do you not like about it? Rate it from 1-5.
*** Rate all the movies from 1-5 with WHY you rated them that way.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Forrest Gump
Under the Same Moon
The Kite Runner
*** The following are the next movies we'll watch. WHich one do you want to watch first?
Boys Don't Cry
Based on actual events, director Kimberly Peirce's powerful, often harrowing drama stars Hilary Swank (in an Oscar-winning performance) as Brandon Teena, a transgender young man searching for love and acceptance in a small Midwestern town. But even as he forges a deep connection with local beauty Lana (Chloë Sevigny), the prejudices of the community threaten to doom the fledgling romance.
Bastards of the Party
Directed and hosted by Cle Sloan, a former member of Los Angeles' notorious gang, the Bloods, this documentary chronicles the history of black street gangs, from their first appearances in the 1940s to their present-day incarnations. Inspired by Mike Davis's book, City of Quartz, Sloan examines the culture from all sides, drawing on interviews with active and inactive gang members, former FBI agents and prominent community figures.
The Great Debators
When African American poet Mel Tolson (Denzel Washington, who also directs) creates a debate team at historically black Wiley College in the 1930s, he pushes the team to a level of excellence that allows them to take on Harvard University. But despite public success, personal clashes foment as the father (Forest Whitaker) of one of Tolson's students (Denzel Whitaker) begins to resent his son's loyalty to his coach.
Blog Title - Under the Same Moon - Movie Review
Assignment -
*** How did you like this movie? What did you like about it? What do you not like about it? Rate it from 1-5.
*** Rate all the movies from 1-5 with WHY you rated them that way.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Forrest Gump
Under the Same Moon
The Kite Runner
*** The following are the next movies we'll watch. WHich one do you want to watch first?
Boys Don't Cry
Based on actual events, director Kimberly Peirce's powerful, often harrowing drama stars Hilary Swank (in an Oscar-winning performance) as Brandon Teena, a transgender young man searching for love and acceptance in a small Midwestern town. But even as he forges a deep connection with local beauty Lana (Chloë Sevigny), the prejudices of the community threaten to doom the fledgling romance.
Bastards of the Party
Directed and hosted by Cle Sloan, a former member of Los Angeles' notorious gang, the Bloods, this documentary chronicles the history of black street gangs, from their first appearances in the 1940s to their present-day incarnations. Inspired by Mike Davis's book, City of Quartz, Sloan examines the culture from all sides, drawing on interviews with active and inactive gang members, former FBI agents and prominent community figures.
The Great Debators
When African American poet Mel Tolson (Denzel Washington, who also directs) creates a debate team at historically black Wiley College in the 1930s, he pushes the team to a level of excellence that allows them to take on Harvard University. But despite public success, personal clashes foment as the father (Forest Whitaker) of one of Tolson's students (Denzel Whitaker) begins to resent his son's loyalty to his coach.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
August 3, 2011
Good morning.
As you come in, go to the following website:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.html
Go to - Skin Tone Test
Take the skin tone test!
Then, in your blogs, answer the following questions:
Blog Title - Skin Tone Test
Assignment -
*** What were your results?
*** Were you surprised by your results? Why?
*** Why do you think your results were what they were?
*** What does this suggest about implicit (hidden/not obvious/you don't talk about it) racism?
*** How might this connect to the concept of immigration?
As you come in, go to the following website:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.html
Go to - Skin Tone Test
Take the skin tone test!
Then, in your blogs, answer the following questions:
Blog Title - Skin Tone Test
Assignment -
*** What were your results?
*** Were you surprised by your results? Why?
*** Why do you think your results were what they were?
*** What does this suggest about implicit (hidden/not obvious/you don't talk about it) racism?
*** How might this connect to the concept of immigration?
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
10 Myths about Immigration
Before we begin watching Under the Same Moon today, you will need to complete the following assignment -
1. Read the article about 10 Myths about Immigration.
The ten myths are:
1. Most immigrants are here illegally.
2. It's just as easy to enter the country legally today as it was when my ancestors arrived.
3. There’s a way to enter the country legally for anyone who wants to get in line.
4. My ancestors learned English, but today’s immigrants refuse.
5. Today’s immigrants don’t want to blend in and become “Americanized.”
6. Immigrants take good jobs from Americans.
7. Undocumented immigrants bring crime.
8. Undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes but still get benefits.
9. The United States is being overrun by immigrants like never before.
10. Anyone who enters the country illegally is a criminal.
For each myth, go to the following website and read the actual FACTS about them.
http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-39-spring-2011/10-myths-about-immigration
http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/immigration-myths-and-facts
**** For each myth, WRITE ONE SENTENCE IN YOUR OWN WORDS THAT EXPLAINS WHY THAT MYTH IS NOT TRUE.
*** NO COPYING & PASTING - It must be in your own words!
1. Read the article about 10 Myths about Immigration.
The ten myths are:
1. Most immigrants are here illegally.
2. It's just as easy to enter the country legally today as it was when my ancestors arrived.
3. There’s a way to enter the country legally for anyone who wants to get in line.
4. My ancestors learned English, but today’s immigrants refuse.
5. Today’s immigrants don’t want to blend in and become “Americanized.”
6. Immigrants take good jobs from Americans.
7. Undocumented immigrants bring crime.
8. Undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes but still get benefits.
9. The United States is being overrun by immigrants like never before.
10. Anyone who enters the country illegally is a criminal.
For each myth, go to the following website and read the actual FACTS about them.
http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-39-spring-2011/10-myths-about-immigration
http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/immigration-myths-and-facts
**** For each myth, WRITE ONE SENTENCE IN YOUR OWN WORDS THAT EXPLAINS WHY THAT MYTH IS NOT TRUE.
*** NO COPYING & PASTING - It must be in your own words!
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