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Lekcja 2: Tożsamość narodowa- My, Naród: tysiąclecia amerykańskich tożsamości
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- Obrazy kastowe: kreowanie tożsamości w hiszpańskiej Ameryce kolonialnej
- Obrazy kastowe, kreowanie tożsamości w hiszpańskiej Ameryce kolonialnej: zasoby edukacyjne
- Kształtowanie dyplomacji: Anishinaabe, Wielka Brytania i Ameryka XVIII wieku
- Kształtowanie dyplomacji, Anishinaabe, Wielka Brytania i Ameryka XVIII wieku: zasoby edukacyjne
- Pustkowie, osadnictwo i amerykańska tożsamość
- Pustkowie, osadnictwo i amerykańska tożsamość: zasoby edukacyjne
- Przed wojną secesyjną, wojna amerykańsko-meksykańska była jej zapowiedzią.
- Przed wojną secesyjną, wojna amerykańsko-meksykańska była jej zapowiedzią: zasoby edukacyjne
- Męczennik czy morderca? The Last Moments of John Brown (Ostatnie chwile Johna Browna) autorstwa Hovendena
- Ukazywanie wolności podczas wojny secesyjnej
- Ukazywanie wolności podczas wojny secesyjnej: zasoby edukacyjne
- The power of the bear and the story an American massacre
- The power of the bear and the story of an American massacre: learning resources
- The closing of the frontier and The Fall of the Cowboy
- The closing of the frontier and the Fall of the Cowboy: learning resources
- Pottery and tourism: Pueblo culture and the lure of the Southwest
- Pottery and tourism, Pueblo culture and the lure of the Southwest
- Cities and pueblos: the search for an authentic America
- Cities and pueblos, the search for an authentic America: learning resources
- Revisiting the myth of George Washington and the cherry tree
- Revisiting the myth of George Washington and the cherry tree: learning resources
- When department stores were new: women in the American city
- When department stores were new: women in the American city: learning resources
- Strange Worlds, immigration in the early 20th century
- Strange Worlds, immigration in the early 20th century: learning resources
- Harlem 1948, Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks and the photo essay
- Harlem 1948, Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks and the photo essay: learning resources
- From wire to weightlessness: Ruth Asawa, Untitled
- From wire to weightlessness, Ruth Asawa, Untitled: learning resources
- Identity and civil rights in 1960s America
- Identity and civil rights in 1960s America: learning resources
- Reflecting on "We the People"
- Reflecting on "We the People": learning resources
- Wendy Red Star, 1880 Crow Peace Delegation
- Wendy Red Star, 1880 Crow Peace Delegation: learning resources
- Speaking to past and present, Clarissa Rizal’s Resilience Robe
- Speaking to past and present, Clarissa Rizal's Resilience Robe: learning resources
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Harlem 1948, Ralph Ellison, Gordon Parks and the photo essay: learning resources
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- The mass media’s portrayal of urban spaces like Harlem in the years after World War II often reinforced negative stereotypes of African Americans. Photographer Gordon Parks and writer Ralph Ellison wanted to offer corrective views of African American life in the popular press. This led them to collaborate on the 1948 essay “Harlem is Nowhere.”
- The text of the essay focused on the Lafargue Clinic, the first non-segregated psychiatric clinic in New York. Ellison argued that segregation and racism were having negative psychological effects on African Americans, and that problems present in Harlem represented larger systemic issues across America. These are issues he would tackle in his famous book, Invisible Man.
- The photographs by Parks were not meant to illustrate the essay. They present their own visual argument about the tensions around race in both Harlem and the United States more broadly by portraying the psychological and societal difficulties that were a daily part of the African American experience.
Dla zainteresowanych
Learn about the development of suburbs in the post-war era
See some of Parks’s photographs for LIFE Magazine and others
See videos and other primary sources about Invisible Man
Do przemyślenia
Re-read the caption that Ellison wrote for this photograph:
“Who am I? Where am I? How do I come to be? Behind endless walls of his ghetto, man searches for social identity. Refugees from southern feudalism, many Negroes wander dazed in the mazes of northern ghettos, the displaced persons of American democracy.”
Which details of Parks’s image seem specifically addressed by Ellison’s caption? How do you think Ellison’s choice of words affects the way we interpret the photograph?
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