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Archive for February 27th, 2009

week seven (3/2-3/6)

by Prof. Hangen - February 27th, 2009

17. Mon 3/2 – The New Deal and the WPA – cancelled due to snow
We will incorporate Monday’s material into Wednesday’s discussion, including the New Deal and the WPA.


18. Wed 3/4 – Discussion Day, Food & Culture

Read Frederick Douglass Opie’s article in the Journal of Social History, “Eating, Dancing and Courting in New York: Black and Latino Relations, 1930-1970.” We will discuss Opie’s findings, his sources, and what we can learn about twentieth-century New York and race relations. His sources are partly based on one WPA effort, the “America Eats” project. More on that is available here at the Library of Congress and here at NPR. Questions to consider:

  • How are food, entertainment and sex related and why did Opie use these topics to explore black and Latino life?


  • How else might you use the “America Eats” project as a source of information about America in the 1930s?


  • What foods are important in your family and culture? What could a historian learn from your dinner table?



    • 19. Fri 3/6 – Exam #1 and Tasting Day – we do an “America Eats” in our own classroom. Study guide for the exam is here and also posted on Blackboard.

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