Just some links to research that supports text sets.
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Rising out of dormancy
I've gone quiet for quite a bit. Still reading and thinking and creating text sets like you wouldn't believe.
I thought I'd jump start this again because I have encountered some texts that I want to address. The first is a recent Atlantic article titled, "My Family's Slave." It was gripping and awful and uncomfortable and moving (but not in the way you might think). The piece tracks a Filipino family's slave moving from the Philippines to the US. What is challenging is that the author is complicit in this woman's slavery and does little to assist her or work to ensure her freedom. That he is a pulitzer prize winning writer who wrote about indigenous rights makes it all the worse.
The second piece is a shocking repudiation of an Obit that the writer of the original article has coerced (maybe to strong a word?) from The Seattle Times. In some ways this offers a second perspective of someone who felt manipulated, lied to, and upset about perpetuating a myth about Eudocia Tomas Pulido's experiences.
A final article at MIC is a direct repudiation of the first narrative
My students are reading the first two as I type this, so I can't wait to discuss it with them. It's all so big and overwhelming and awful. I wonder what they will say.
I thought I'd jump start this again because I have encountered some texts that I want to address. The first is a recent Atlantic article titled, "My Family's Slave." It was gripping and awful and uncomfortable and moving (but not in the way you might think). The piece tracks a Filipino family's slave moving from the Philippines to the US. What is challenging is that the author is complicit in this woman's slavery and does little to assist her or work to ensure her freedom. That he is a pulitzer prize winning writer who wrote about indigenous rights makes it all the worse.
The second piece is a shocking repudiation of an Obit that the writer of the original article has coerced (maybe to strong a word?) from The Seattle Times. In some ways this offers a second perspective of someone who felt manipulated, lied to, and upset about perpetuating a myth about Eudocia Tomas Pulido's experiences.
A final article at MIC is a direct repudiation of the first narrative
My students are reading the first two as I type this, so I can't wait to discuss it with them. It's all so big and overwhelming and awful. I wonder what they will say.
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