Course redesign (spring, summer 2017) was guided by four primary influences: The scholars participating in the ALG grant aimed to find ways of making this text useful in HIST 21, the two courses that make up the American History sequence in the University System of Georgia.
All contributors-experienced college-level instructors-volunteer their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century classrooms.”
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According to The American Yawp website, this open educational resource is designed to be “unchecked by profit motives or business models and free from for-profit educational organizations by scholars, for scholars. In this LibGuide, you will find instructional resources designed to facilitate use of The American Yawp (a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook) in college classrooms. The documents in this LibGuide are the result of a year-long project to bring free, high quality learning materials to Georgia Highlands College students enrolled in American History I (HIST 2111) and American History II (HIST 2112) courses. Moreover, forcing students into a situation in which they have to choose between buying a textbook that they will likely only use for one semester and paying other necessary bills does not promote student learning, nor does it contribute to a fulfilling college experience. In many cases, these strategies often result in students not having access to key course materials at crucial times during the semester. For instance, when faced with high textbook costs in multiple classes, students make desperate, and frequently futile, attempts to rent, share, borrow or check out textbooks from libraries. The high cost of textbooks causes students to make choices that have an adverse impact on their academic performance. One of the biggest issues that students face at Georgia Highlands College, as well as at colleges and universities across the state of Georgia is the prohibitive cost of textbooks. Pearson and others charging huge amounts for online versions of their textbooks is highway robbery, and I hope more courses use cheaper options like American Yawp.” HIST 2112 Student, Georgia Highlands College, Fall 2017
John Hope Franklin said it was “a major contribution, particularly valuable because the subject has been overlooked.“Using a free textbook was a breath of fresh air. Martin Luther King, Dick Gregory, Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), the American Indian Movement, and Black Power Movement, and between political prisoners Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal.Īlice Walker called the original edition “usable, nearly lost, invaluable history. Readers will hear of both the debates and efforts toward unity started in the 1960s between Dr.
Katz introduces readers to Lucy Parsons, a former enslaved Black Indian, and a brilliant, and fiery orator and writer who became a socialist revolutionary and to militant Black Indian Congressman George Henry White who introduced the first anti-lynching bill in 1900. This edition also provides new information on how western African American pioneer women often took the lead in aiding Native Americans the ironic role of the Black “Buffalo Soldiers” sent to fight the great Native American nations in the West, and those who refused. The new edition reveals the story of the African guides and translators of the colonial era who became valued contacts with Indigenous peoples, examines the African and Indian alliance known as the Pueblo revolt of 1680 that ended Spain’s rule of the southwest for a dozen years, introduces Francisco Menendez and the 1738 Black Indian community that defended its liberty in Florida against British incursions, and describes the Lowry Gang in North Carolina that fought the Civil War Confederacy and then battled the KKK. The expanded and updated edition of Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage brings the Native American and African American alliance that for four centuries challenged the European conquest and slavery into the 21st century with additional research and documentary and photographic evidence. Two lessons on the Zinn Education Project website draw on Black Indians: The Color Line, about conscious efforts in early America to create divisions between races and The Cherokee/Seminole Removal Role Play, which helps students explore events leading up to the Trail of Tears. As one French colonial document stated, “Between the races we cannot dig too deep a gulf.” But the “digging” was not always successful, and much of the drama of Katz’ book is found in the inspiring instances of black-Indian unity, as in the Seminole Wars.
This startling and readable work of people’s history chronicles both the attempts to keep black people and Indians divided in the Americas, and their efforts to unite. The classic Black Indians has been updated and reissued.