“’No Promised Land’: Oral Histories of African-American Women in Cincinnati, Ohio.”

Beverly A. Bunch-Lyons, “’No Promised Land’: Oral Histories of African-American Women in Cincinnati, Ohio.” Kenneth Clay & Kaivan Munshi “Black Networks After Emancipation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Great Migration” James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son *Excerpt” Stewart E. Tolnay & E.M. Beck, “Black Flight: Lethal Violence and the Great Migration, 1900 – 1930 Darlene Clark Hine, “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West” Alan D. DeSantis, “Selling the American dream myth to Black Southerners” *FILM: Native Son(2019) Some more questions that can help in the reflection but don’t necessarily need to be incorporated: What is the central argument/claim? Is there sufficient evidence to support the claim(s)? What additional questions does the reading raise? What are the key terms and how are they defined? What connections can you draw between each of the weekly readings and across readings from the weeks prior? What questions do the readings raise for you? How does the reading produce new knowledge about blackness, migration and movement?