Author Archives: Patrick Crehan

I noticed that in the beginning (before the scenes of the cotton fields) , the film showed the charismatic charm that the family had for one another. They all seemed to live well off, and seemed that there were not a lot of big worries in the worlds. I did pick up on one oddContinue reading “CL 3/12”

Assignment 1 second draft Look for 6 conceptualizations and what kind of discourse community Du Bois is discussing and/or part of. In Du Bois’s essay, his shared common goals are ones that are common with activist in his time, trying to move the United States forward away from the idea of second class citizenship andContinue reading “HW 3/5”

Rough draft assignment 1 A year subsequent to the infamous Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case, W.E.B. Du Bois had written an essay that had articulated his own personal recollections of the inferiority he had felt growing up as an African American in a predominantly white America. Mixed with emotion and assertiveness, Du Bois’s essayContinue reading “HW 3/3”

I believe that the readers are possibly white politicians, white law affiliates and/or white fence sitters, in general, that are wondering where to proceed with the race problem within the United States. The gap is that white people had embedded the thought through time, that black people were naturally inferior, and it was practically unnaturalContinue reading “CL 3/3”

I read the contract and I cannot think of anything that needs to be included or revised. The only thing I could think of is that sometimes people (like me) will come in late due to arbitrary factors that we cannot control. Example: I go to your class from work and sometimes I get caughtContinue reading “HW 2/27”

The claim, I believe is that there had always been a race aversion naturally for thousands of years and that blacks are inherently of a lower status than whites. He also tries to convince his readers that blacks were practically forced to conform with white people, which had created more strife and hardships for theContinue reading “CL 2/27”

The readers, I believe, are supposed to be politically involved during reconstruction of the South and/or regular white folks who are possibly involved in the abolition of black suffrage. The gap is supposed to questions that nobody had answers to considering the race question. The gap was more of a rant that was set outContinue reading “CL 2/25”