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Screencast: Final Assignment, Case Study
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Final Paper overview
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Transcendent Kingdom Intro
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Final Paper Assignment
Link to assignment
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Paper 2 prompt
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Blog Post #6
In “Sonny’s Blues,” how does the final scene in the jazz club reflect the themes of redemption and understanding in the story? Discuss the significance of Sonny’s performance and the narrator’s reaction to it.
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“Recitatif” screencast
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Blog post #5
Please watch the video answer the discussion question below Toni Morrison has described her short story “Recitatif” as “an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial.” According to the scholar in this video, the idea of racial division is replaced by a more generalized depiction of how cruelty, discrimination, and dehumanization originates. This, the story seems to show, is the root of racial/ethnic division. What do you make of this argument about the origin of racial division and its relationship to dehumanization? Is this right? Does it miss something important about racism? In your…
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“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin
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“Recitatif” by Toni Morrison


