The Great Migration: Crash Course Black American History #24
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Brian
You really pulled off an amazing feat with this video. I talk about the Great Migration in my mass media class specifically because it was so difficult to condense. Despite being one of the most important occurrences in the 20th century United States, almost nobody knows about it because it could not be distilled to a single article or clipping. There was no singular -event- that could be pointed to, so it slipped through the cracks of the old Bennett Model for news rooms. A combination of racism, attitudes, and the traits of the available mass media of the day have made this a badly overlooked and undertreated subject. We use it as a platform to discuss the values and limits of various media, and how they may impact our understanding of history and the present. I really appreciate your distilling of this information, and I hope that it gets the attention it deserves. I'll be using it in my class.
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You really pulled off an amazing feat with this video. I talk about the Great Migration in my mass media class specifically because it was so difficult to condense. Despite being one of the most important occurrences in the 20th century United States, almost nobody knows about it because it could not be distilled to a single article or clipping. There was no singular -event- that could be pointed to, so it slipped through the cracks of the old Bennett Model for news rooms. A combination of racism, attitudes, and the traits of the available mass media of the day have made this a badly overlooked and undertreated subject. We use it as a platform to discuss the values and limits of various media, and how they may impact our understanding of history and the present. I really appreciate your distilling of this information, and I hope that it gets the attention it deserves. I'll be using it in my class.
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PatchesRips
You know, I always wondered if whites in the American south ever regretted making life so unpleasant for black people that they had to leave, if only for the reason that (it seemed to me) it would have put upward pressure on the cost of labour. This is the first time I've heard that it did. But the idea that attempts were made to intimidate them into staying was something that had never occurred to me. They were damned if they did, damned if they didn't. I'm a white guy in middle age now, but the older I get, the more I appreciate black anger, and the more I realize -all that's behind us now, thank God- just isn't true.
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You know, I always wondered if whites in the American south ever regretted making life so unpleasant for black people that they had to leave, if only for the reason that (it seemed to me) it would have put upward pressure on the cost of labour. This is the first time I've heard that it did. But the idea that attempts were made to intimidate them into staying was something that had never occurred to me. They were damned if they did, damned if they didn't. I'm a white guy in middle age now, but the older I get, the more I appreciate black anger, and the more I realize -all that's behind us now, thank God- just isn't true.
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Dragons,
For those looking to add to their reading pile: Isabel Wilkerson also wrote a great book called CASTE: THE ORIGINS OF OUR DISCONTENTS, analyzing the caste system of America, with comparisons to India and Nazi Germany. It's a very important read for anyone wanting to better understand how our social structure has come into being, how it works, and what we can do to end it.
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For those looking to add to their reading pile: Isabel Wilkerson also wrote a great book called CASTE: THE ORIGINS OF OUR DISCONTENTS, analyzing the caste system of America, with comparisons to India and Nazi Germany. It's a very important read for anyone wanting to better understand how our social structure has come into being, how it works, and what we can do to end it.
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Pipo
Our [dutch] media started to use -black-and -white-in their reporting some years ago but I was raised not to use these words because they where derrogatory. Also our media use -black people- for all nonwhite people instead of only subsaharan africans like in the US media. Perculiar.
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Our [dutch] media started to use -black-and -white-in their reporting some years ago but I was raised not to use these words because they where derrogatory. Also our media use -black people- for all nonwhite people instead of only subsaharan africans like in the US media. Perculiar.
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Paul
Sharecropping sounds an awful lot like Newfoundland's Mercantile system prior to them joining Canada (except the latter didn't have the debtor's-prison part) - just substitute poor farmers with poor fishermen, both parties getting profoundly screwed by The Man.
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Sharecropping sounds an awful lot like Newfoundland's Mercantile system prior to them joining Canada (except the latter didn't have the debtor's-prison part) - just substitute poor farmers with poor fishermen, both parties getting profoundly screwed by The Man.
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education
One interesting thing I learned about the Great Migration is how the place of origin often determined the destination.
Migrants from Louisiana and Texas often ended up I'm Los Angeles or Oakland, whereas migrants from Georgia went to New York.
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One interesting thing I learned about the Great Migration is how the place of origin often determined the destination.
Migrants from Louisiana and Texas often ended up I'm Los Angeles or Oakland, whereas migrants from Georgia went to New York.
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Scorpio8116
I just watched the Migration episode of Crash Course Geography the other day, so it was neat hearing similar terms about being -pushed- out from somewhere and -pulled- towards another place for the Great Migration. Great timing!
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I just watched the Migration episode of Crash Course Geography the other day, so it was neat hearing similar terms about being -pushed- out from somewhere and -pulled- towards another place for the Great Migration. Great timing!
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Andre
I'm from an american country that had lots of enslaved people, and often struggle to find good material about it, so even though this series is not about my country, it still has been pretty interesting.
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I'm from an american country that had lots of enslaved people, and often struggle to find good material about it, so even though this series is not about my country, it still has been pretty interesting.
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Matty
Will there be any content regarding the black experience during world war one? Thank you for such a great series. Been riveted since week one!
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Will there be any content regarding the black experience during world war one? Thank you for such a great series. Been riveted since week one!
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Janee
This has been a great series so far. -crashcourse, I hope you'll do this for the other major racial/ethnic groups in the U. S!
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This has been a great series so far. -crashcourse, I hope you'll do this for the other major racial/ethnic groups in the U. S!
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