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Now a new site aimed at college students is raising questions about the legality of online rumor mills. JuicyCampus.com is a rapidly growing gossip site that solicits content with the promise of anonymity. But what began as fun and games—and now has spinoffs on seven college campuses, including Duke University, where it began—has turned ugly and, in many cases, flatly defamatory. -
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This site provides a historical overview of the Jim Crow years and video and audio clips of personal narratives, including ones from World War II soldiers discussing experiences with the military and discrimination. There are also opportunities to participate in discussion forums, post commentary on images, and engage in activities that tap into the African American experience of the time. -
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A Facebook group called “White Nation,” which featured a graphic of a black infant in handcuffs and the caption, “Arrest black babies before they become criminals,” has sparked outrage on the campus of the University of Southern California -
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This interactive site presents diverse scholarship regarding race and pedagogy. The site is an academic resource intended to provide teachers, students, researchers and the interested public with on-site research summaries and citations as well as bibliographies of research and teaching materials. -
1voteStrange Fruit, famously sung by Billie Holiday, powerfully condemns lynching, popular in the South following the Civil War. The chilling lyrics and intonation can incite student discussion on lynching and launch an exploration into its causes, its spectators, and its social effects, i.e. the Great Migration, the rise and fall of the KKK.
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1voteTwain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, a complicated look back on the the slave-owning South from the perch of Reconstruction's failure, can be used in a humanities class focusing on the end of Reconstruction. As a complementary text, PW would provide students with the pessimistic outlook on race relations, social inequity, and national identity held by some observers as America headed into the 20th century
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