Transcript AAS40A ppt5 (File) (English)

Week 5:
Reconstruction
and the Challenge of
a New African American Identity
African American Studies 40A
Key Concepts for
Ethnic Notions (Dir: Marlon Riggs, 1987)
• Mammy
• Pickaninny
• Uncle
• coon (Zip)
• Jim Crow
• Sambo
• Brute
• Bert Williams
• Blackface/minstrelsy
Key Concepts:
• Lynching
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett
• Jim Crow South
If We Must Die
Claude McKay (1919)
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
The Lynching of Laura Nelson
May 25, 1911, Okemah, Oklahoma
The burning corpse of William Brown
September 28, 1919, Omaha, Nebraska
Spectators at the lynching of Jesse
Washington
May 16, 1916, Waco, Texas
The Lynching of Tom Shipp and Abe Smith.
Marion, Indiana, August 7, 1930
“By Party or Parties Unknown”
Crowd at the Lynching of Tom Shipp
and Abe Smith
Marion, Indiana, August 7, 1930
“By Party or Parties Unknown”
The lynching of four African Americans
Circa 1900, location unknown
Lynching postcard
date, victim, and location unknown
Public Enemy (1992)
Extended Remix Album Cover
Pat Ward Williams
Accused/Blowtorch/Padlock (1986)