Always in the Mood for Moody: Teaching History through Anne Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi"

Autor/in	Boisseau, T. J.
Titel	Always in the Mood for Moody: Teaching History through Anne Moody's "Coming of Age in Mississippi"
Quelle	In: Feminist Teacher: A Journal of the Practices, Theories, and Scholarship of Feminist Teaching, 24 (2014) 1-2, S.18-31 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0882-4843
DOI	10.5406/femteacher.24.1-2.issue-1-2
Schlagwörter	History Instruction; United States History; African American History; Females; Autobiographies; Civil Rights; Books; Feminism; Adolescent Literature; Authors; Activism; Adolescent Development; Secondary School Students; Relevance (Education); Learner Engagement; Teaching Methods; Primary Sources + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Weibliches Geschlecht; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Feminismus; Adolescent; Adolescents; Literature; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; literatur; Author; Autor; Autorin; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Sekundarschüler; Relevance; Relevanz; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Primärquelle
Abstract	In searching for a way of teaching American history as something that truly belongs to women, and men, to the powerful as well as to those who lack power in a formal sense, as something that is not the story of white people with an interesting person of color charitably thrown in for good measure, Boisseau writes that while many influential writings on African American women's autobiography and civil rights activism have shaped her thinking and form an implicit theoretical framework for this essay, the preeminent teaching text in her arsenal is the perennially popular civil rights era memoir first published in 1968 by Anne Moody, "Coming of Age in Mississippi." The historical evidence that this young, rural, impoverished, black woman's memoir brings to students' consciousness pulls together all the political, economic, and social history about the civil rights movement, as well as the biggest events and developments in the United States of the middle years of the twentieth century. Boisseau's concern in this article is not only to further the reach of this text to those feminist instructors not already familiar with it, but to expand upon its usefulness in the classroom beyond the applications it has mostly been used. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01