Materials

Literary:

1. Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko): Used Tayo’s experience of trying to reconnect with his Laguna roots as the main source of inspiration for my characters feelings of cultural disorientation.

2. Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko): Used as one selection on summer reading list

3. Jazz (Toni Morrison): Switching between 1st and 3rd person to help narrate the experience

4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer): Use of various pictures in my narrative

Scholarly:

1. Interview with “The Migrant Mother”

Dotson, B. (1979). [Interview with Florence Thompson “The Migrant Mother”] NBC Today Show

2. Freedom (n)

a. The condition of being free from restraints.

b. Liberty of a person from slavery, oppression, or detention.

3. Cultural Disorientation (n)- wasn’t able to find definition, so invented my own

Culture is defined as an integrated system of learned behavior patterns that are characteristic of the members of any given society.

Disorientation is defined as the loss of one’s sense of direction, position, or relationship with one’s surroundings or mental confusion or impaired awareness, especially regarding place, time, or personal identity.

Cultural Disorientation (n)

a. The mental confusion produced through a loss of ones direction, position, or relationship in one’s given society.

Cultural:

Into my heart an air that kills

From yon far country blows:

What are those blue remembered hills,

What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,

I see it shining plain,

The happy highways where I went

And cannot come again.

Houseman, A. E. “Into my heart an air that kills.” Poems of AE Houseman. Wed. 9, Dec. 2009. < http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/into-my-heart-an-air-that-kills/>

2. Used selected segments of Patrick Smith’s, Angel City to help create resonance between generations of migrant farmers, and their consistently horrible working conditions.

Smith, Patrick. Angel City. 1st ed. 1. Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, Inc., 1978. Print.

3. Clips of the Chicago Bulls 1992 and 1996 NBA finals victories-found in multimedia section.

4. The “No butts about it” campaign was a popular program for schools to adopt in the mid-1990′s.

Multimedia:

1. ”The Migrant Mother”