Brown v Board of Education, 1954: desegregation
Journalistic interviews with direct quotations; investigative journalism. Different viewpoints. Personal storytelling mixed with historical accounts. Personal and historical mingle. Personal experience as evidence of factual storytelling. Coming-of-age tropes. Memoir. Outsider/insider role alternates/mingles. Chronological. Leaves out POV of women, African Americans. (What was it like as an African American going to UNC in the fall of 1955?) Baby boomer representation of the 1950s: saturation/overrepresentation. ch 11: Mister Jew "My father stressed leadership by example, that Jews had to be twice as good to achieve half as much." (141) "The problem started with the fact that Georgia Tech and Emory brought hundreds of Jewish boys to Atlanta, where there were too few college-age Jewish girls' thus the college boys began dating high school girls, which forced the high school Jewish boys to drop down into junior high..." (157) ch 12: Intermarriage Southern Style "...It was the society girl's form of protest to go out with Jewish boys; I mean, we couldn't date Negroes, right?" (161) "At some point in their freshman year, the fundamentalist girls used to like to date a Jewish guy, because he was sure to ask a lot of questions she couldn't handle. She was usually at the point where she wanted to rebel anyway, and he was her liberator. And since there was a premium on converting a Hebrew, she could rationalize is as a missionary opportunity." (162) ch 13: Big Wheel on Campus "We Southerners were still attached to the world of high school and parental approval; they were cut loose and flying on a four year lark, and could lose themselves in the sure knowledge that no one would know and care." (171) student project artifacts: recipes, memoirs, songs that have changed over time (lyrics and music and audio)
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