Nancy Isenberg, an American historian interested on “gender and politics, cultural and legal history in the U.S”, currently teaches at the Louisiana State University. Isenberg received awards and honors for her notables works. Analytical and detail oriented Nancy Isenberg published White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, which received a nomination for Goodreads Choice Awards Best History & Biography. “Living near the Swamp, they suffered from “distempers of laziness,” which made the slothful in everything but getting children.
One thing Perdue could have done to have taken this book to the next level, is include more insight from specific Cherokee women. With their insights, it would have given more of a direct insight as to actual stories making the book more interesting. If she had included more examples of Cherokee women today and how they demonstrated strength this book could have been better. Also, Perdue’s analysis reveals the burden of her politics. It is evident that at times she uses communitarian and the female centric nature of Cherokee society to criticize modern American gender relations and society.
While reading the book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, I learned a great deal about early Indian life, in a way I had not before. Of course, in grade school you learn about “Pocahontas” but not in the way Camilla Townsend describes her. I started this book not really knowing what to expect besides to learn more than I had previously known. I know recently a lot about history has come up for discussion in ways it has never before. Native Americans and Africa Americans have been a topic of discussion for the past few years, shedding light on their history.
The colonization of the Americas wrought havoc on the Indigenous population through disease, enslavement, war, land theft, and more which echo in the source. The source to be examined in this essay is a Runaway Ad from the Boston News-Letter, dated April 19, 1708. The ad was placed to advertise a reward for finding three runaway slaves from Kingston, Rhode Island who had left the prior winter. The group was made up of an Indigenous man, woman, and child, indicating the three were an example of a slave family. This source, though short, provides insight into the bonds of slave families in the English colonies, the sexualization of Indigenous women, and the partial integration of Indigenous people in English colonial society.
In the commentary, “Using Native American Folktales in the Classroom”, by Debbie Reese and the piece, “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, by Scott Momaday, authenticity is very important between these controversial articles. Establishing the authenticity of a text to be used in a high school classroom is imperative before assigning the text to be read by students. In commentaries by different authors, the authors depict Native Americans in many different ways. Before reading these articles students should establish the authenticity of the pieces of literature.
Surprisingly, Native American women had more freedom than the white women in the Chesapeake, Middle Colonies, or New England region. Some Native American women were given rights such as controlling land, political power, marriage and divorce in choice. There were matrilineal kinship system, in fact, marriage was not the most top rite of passage for them. The author covers around the 1600s- 1800s century time period while focusing on mainly white women but also women of color.
An American in the 19th century defined what it meant to be American while trying to fit the very definition. In trying to become a master, men dictated what it meant to be a master. In trying to become a proper white woman, women determined what being a proper white woman meant for others. The concepts of gentility, honor, paternalism, and whiteness were deeply rooted in the antebellum slave market, and played a role in influencing the reasons why Americans would choose to purchase slaves. Class and social distinctions led to paths made navigating through the slave market an experience with different significance for everyone.
Another method of approaching Wardecker’s claim that the good skating ice was prized by the Indian students is to recognize the conflict as passive. He affirms that “we were allowed to skate on here until the Indians come out, and then they’d make us get off, and we’d come over here and skate- (on the rubber ice).” Though Wardecker did not seem particularly offended by this conflict, his narrative is very much the opposite of Martin and Wright’s stories. Wright does reference the rubber ice, however he neglects to mention that the students forced him to use this ice. It is imperative to note that Martin and Wright’s situations were distinct from Wardecker’s.
While reading about American history the thing that I found most appealing was the limited rights that women had during this era. Although women gave the early settlers longer life expectancy and brought hope to their future, women still were not considered equal to a man. Women were discriminated against and didn’t play an important role in early American history. Generally, women had fewer legal rights and career opportunity than men because they were considered weak and not able to perform certain tasks. Different women came from different ethnic backgrounds and were all created equal in the eyes of men.
When I first sat down to watch this last episode of Serial, I was somewhere between “I honestly don’t know” and “Adnan killed Hae Min Lee”. The finale served as a recap of the events documented throughout the series in which new facts were presented, new perspectives were shown, and new opinions formed. Adnan's guilt finally emerged from the interview with a coworker of Jay's, named Josh. There was no reason for Josh to lie. He was not affiliated with the case in any way, and what he said made sense with the context of Jay's story.
EXT. GAS STATION - ALMOST SUNRISE Mary stops to put some gas, she believed they were safe by now. But a black SUV passes by the gas station, Mary looks at it and she knows its one of Mr. Moxley 's man.
According to Vygotsky, he believed that part of the creative process was being aware of one’s and other’s personal experience and how that makes a person feel. Then, when art captures that emotion it does not mean that emotion for the artist will automatically be experienced by all, but everyone internalizes it based on their own personal experiences, feelings and where they are from. Then externalization comes from taking an internalization and making sense of it by taking a look at feelings, thoughts, images, symbols, etc. as they come together to create something. An example I have to represent this is when I was in the process of trying to choreograph my first dance for my senior showcase piece.
or prosecuted and punished on trumped-up rape charges, refused to be involved in the anti-rape campaign although they had, from the time of slavery, been themselves victims of sexual violence from their white masters. Thus the anti-rape movement proceeded without the support of some of the worst victims of sexual violence. This reinforces the logic of Davis ' entire critique of the feminist movement in America and shows that the gender-based homogeneity assumed by feminists is con- stantly undercut not merely as a result of the internalisation of male supremacist ideology by women but by the objective need to give pri- ority to racial solidarity within a specific historical situation, because here racial solidarity, at least to some extent,
Narrative Style – The novel consists of two parts. The first part is written in the first person intrusive, as it is narrated by Dr John H. Watson. “We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B, Baker street, of which he has spoken at our meeting.” The first part of the novel being written in this way allows the narrator to convey his personal thoughts and feelings, “That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the Earth round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.”
When reading autobiographies written by people with disabilities, a source of tension can sometimes be found between the author and the mediatory forces which surround their writing process. When reading such texts about individuals with intellectual disabilities, however, this tension colors every inch of the text, from its organizational structure to the progression of its narrative. In the case of memoirs such as Rachel Simon’s Riding the Bus with my Sister and Jason Kingsley and Mitchell Levitz’s Count Us In, the various forms of narrative mediation present essentially warp the texts into providing narratives exclusively targeted at a non-disabled audience. To elaborate, their stories prioritize portraying an overcoming narrative of sorts, a specific style of storytelling
