hist.g8.s.ex_13
Essay
MG-7
Diagram
MG-7 TWELVE-Question SOURCE CARD (8.5x11 laminated double-sided): Q1 Who made this? (sourcing); Q2 When + where? (contextualization); Q3 What purpose? (sourcing); Q4 What evidence supports? (close reading); Q5 What other sources corroborate? (corroboration); Q6 What is omitted? (silences); Q7 Audience? (rhetorical context); Q8 What other voices must we seek? (G7 extension); Q9 Is this Lost Cause framing? (G8-Fall extension); Q10 Is the SURVIVOR own-voice centered or marginalized? (NEW); Q11 Have we checked MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES across nationality / class / race / gender / sexuality / ability / age? (NEW); Q12 What is the PRESENT-DAY connection — what does this source mean for our civic action now? (NEW). Sentence frames + bilingual transliteration in 8 languages.
In 3-4 paragraphs apply MG-7 Q6 SILENCES + Q11 MULTI-PERSPECTIVE to the New Deal's racial exclusions. Cite Katznelson 2005 When Affirmative Action Was White. Specifically: SSA exclusion of domestic + agricultural workers (~65% of Black workforce); AAA paid landowners not tenants displacing ~200,000 Black sharecroppers; FHA redlining; HOLC red-line maps. Connect Q12 PRESENT-CONNECTION to racial wealth-gap today.
- Cites Katznelson 2005
- Names SSA + AAA + FHA + HOLC racial exclusion mechanisms
- Identifies ~65% Black workforce excluded from SSA
- Applies Q6 SILENCES + Q11 + Q12
- Connects to contemporary racial wealth-gap
- Katznelson 2005 documents accommodations to Southern Democrats.
- Per Rothstein 2017 The Color of Law redlining persists.
- Treating New Deal as racially neutral
- Forgetting Indigenous Reorganization Act 1934