LibGuides: SOC344: Module 1

Module 1 Required Resources

Articles

Introduction: Does the American Family Have a History? Family Images and Realities
Mintz, Steven. “Introduction: Does the American Family Have a History? Family Images and Realities.” OAH Magazine of History, vol. 15, no. 4, 2001, pp. 4–10. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25163456.
African Americans and the Birth of the Modern Marriage
Franklin, Donna L. (2015) African Americans and the Birth of the Modern Marriage. In Barbara J. Risman (Eds.), Families as They Really Are (2nd ed., pp. 72-83). New York: W.W. Norton. Internet Archive, https://nu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01NATIONAL_INST/cl5c2u/alma9922234520001661
The Social and Cultural Construction of American Childhood. Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future
Mintz, Steven. The Social and Cultural Construction of American Childhood. Handbook of Contemporary Families: Considering the Past, Contemplating the Future, edited by Marilyn Coleman, and Lawrence Ganong, SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 2003. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nu/detail.action?docID=1995273.)

These articles serve as foundational readings to focus attention on diversity and change in American family history.

The scholarship assists students in exploring and understanding the family experience through social, historical and diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) lenses. The reading facilitates student’s ability to analyze how family and individual experiences are shaped at the intersections of race, class, and gender in American society.

Videos

Dreams of Equality
Dreams of Equality. (n.d.). Www.youtube.com. Retrieved April 21, 2023, from https://youtu.be/n5yb3RPYUCg

Dreams of Equality is a documentary that chronicles the early struggles of the Women's Rights Movement through an exchange of letters between a sister and brother. The history of early American families is revealed in this dramatic recreation of the First Women's Rights Convention held in 1848. (28 minutes)

Lesson 1 Resources

Required Resources

Photographs of African Americans in Georgia
Search Results: “LOT 7479” - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress). (n.d.). Www.loc.gov. Retrieved April 25, 2023, from https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?va=exact&sp=1&co%21=coll&st=gallery&q=LOT+7479&fi=number&sg=true&op=PHRASE‌
Child Labor in America 1908-1912
Search Results: “LOT 7479” - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress). (n.d.). Www.loc.gov. Retrieved April 25, 2023, from https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?va=exact&sp=1&co%21=coll&st=gallery&q=LOT+7479&fi=number&sg=true&op=PHRASE‌
Migrant Farm Families
Search results from Available Online, Lot 344. (n.d.). Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved April 25, 2023, from https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=partof:lot+344&sp=2&st=gallery‌

Optional Resources

W.E.B. Du Bois' African American Portraits
Norris, M. (2003, December 2). W.E.B. Du Bois’ African-American Portraits. NPR. https://www.npr.org/2003/12/02/1522978/w-e-b-du-bois-african-american-portraits‌
Small Nation of People American Portraits
A Small Nation of People: W. E. B. Du Bois and African American Portraits of Progress: Lewis, David Levering, Willis, Deborah: 9780060817565: Amazon.com: Books. (2023). Amazon.com. https://www.amazon.com/Small-Nation-People-American-Portraits/dp/0060817569?asin=0060523425&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1‌
Dorothea Lange Museum
Dorothea Lange Digital Archive | OMCA: Oakland Museum of CA | OMCA: Oakland Museum of California | Home. (n.d.). Dorothea Lange Digital Archive | OMCA: Oakland Museum of CA. https://dorothealange.museumca.org/‌

This site provides some analysis and discussion of how photographs can be misused.
The Story Behind the Iconic 'Migrant Mother' Photo that Defined the Great Depression
The Story Behind the Iconic “Migrant Mother” Photo that Defined the Great Depression. (2017, July 4). My Modern Met. https://mymodernmet.com/dorothea-lange-migrant-mother/‌

Each of these photographers is extremely well-known. Use outside sources to help you with your analysis, just cite the material you use!

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