Friday, October 3, 2008

Friday, October 3

In the context of the controversy over the cancelled "blackout" at tonight's football game, we looked briefly at the history of blackface in American culture (we watched Al Jolson singinging "Mammy" in The Jazz Singer), and read an online article about a confrontation over racial caricatures.


Thursday, October 2

Mr. Potratz was absent. Students wrote their "Two Captivity Narratives" essays in class.

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