Understanding and teaching American slavery /
edited by Bethany Jay, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly.
- xx, 318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- The Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history .
- Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The short course for bringing slavery into the classroom in ten not-so-easy pieces / Slavery and the Classroom. Methods for teaching slavery to high school students and college undergraduates in the United States / Dealing with things as they are : creating a classroom environment for teaching slavery and its lingering impact / Teaching Specific Content. Teaching the origins of slavery in the Americas / Slavery in the new nation : human bondage in the land of liberty / Blood stained mirrors : decoding the American slave-trading past / Slavery and the northern economy / Northern slavery and its legacies : still a new (and unwelcome?) story / Slave resistance / Slave culture / The diverse experiences of the enslaved / Slavery and the Civil War / Comparative slavery / The challenge of slavery since emancipation : from 1865 to the twenty-first century / Sources and Strategies for Teaching Slavery. Using the WPA slave narratives in the classroom / Teaching the history of slavery through film / Art and slavery / In the footsteps of others : understanding slavery through process drama / "A likely negro" : using runaway-slave advertisements to teach slavery / Teaching the history of slavery and its legacy through historical archaeology : Project Archaeology / Ira Berlin -- Bethany Jay and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- James W. Loewen ; Steven Thurston Oliver -- Eric Kimball ; Paul Finkelman ; Sowande' Mustakeem ; Christy Clark-Pujara ; Joanne Pope Melish ; Kenneth S. Greenberg ; Bernard E. Powers Jr. ; Deirdre Cooper Owens ; Bethany Jay ; Laird W. Bergad ; James Brewer Stewart -- Cynthia Lynn Lyerly ; Ron Briley ; Ray Williams ; Lindsay Anne Randall ; Antonio T. Bly ; Sarah E. Miller, James M. Davidson, and Emily Palmer. Foreword: Introduction / Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.
Perhaps no topic in U.S. history is as emotionally fraught as the nation's centuries-long entanglement with slavery. How can teachers get students to understand the racist underpinnings of that institution--and to acknowledge its legacies in contemporary America? How can they overcome students' shame, anger, guilt, or denial? How can they incorporate into the classroom important primary sources that may contain obsolete and racist terms, images, and ideas? This book, designed for college and high school teachers, is a critical resource for understanding and teaching this challenging topic in all its complexity. Opening with Ira Berlin's reflections on ten elements that are essential to include in any course on this topic, Understanding and Teaching American Slavery offers practical advice for teaching specific content, utilizing sources, and getting students to think critically. Contributors address, among other topics, slavery and the nation's founders, the diverse experiences of the enslaved, slavery's role in the Civil War, and the relationship between slavery and the northern economy. Other chapters offer ideas for teaching through slave narratives, runaway ads, spirituals, films, and material culture. Taken together, the essays in the volume help instructors tackle problems, discover opportunities, and guide students in grappling with the ugliest truths of America's past--Publisher description.
9780299306649 029930664X
2015010259
Slavery--History--Study and teaching--United States. African Americans--History--Study and teaching.--19th century African Americans--History--Study and teaching.--20th century African Americans--Politics and government--Study and teaching. African Americans--Civil rights--History--Study and teaching.