Based upon the readings (both text and additional) and screenings (all thus far), please answer the following prompt:

What is Cultural Identity in America in the year 2020?

Screening:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_35a7sn6ds

Snow Tha Product:

It’s a hard line

When you’re an import

Baby boy it’s hard times

When you ain’t sent for

Racist feed the belly of the beast

With they pitchforks, rich chores

Done by the people that get ignored

It’s all set

They’ve awoken

It’s a whole awakening

The alarm rang a while ago

Those who yearn seek it out

But yet they label us as lazy

We are the same ones

Hustling on every level

Here’s the data

Walk a mile in our shoes

Tighten up your laces

I been scoping ya dudes

Residente:

By land or by sea

False identities

We climb walls or float on rafts

We fight like Sandino in Nicaragua*

We’re like the plants that grow without any water

Without an American passport

Because half of Gringolandia is Mexican territory

You’ve gotta be a real son of a bitch

We plant them the tree yet they eat the fruit

We’re the ones they’ve crossed

We came here to take back the gold they stole**

And we have more tricks than the secret police

We stuff our entire home in our suitcases

And with a pickaxe, a shovel, and a rake

We’ll build you a castle

Now what’s that chorus say, fucker?

All:

Immigrants: we get the job done!

2.NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY SHORT: “OUT OF MANY, ONE”

True to its founding identity, the United States is still a nation of immigrants. Inspired by New-York Historical’s Citizenship Project, this Netflix documentary short film depicts some of the many threads that continue to weave the tapestry that is America through the lens of five immigrants who are on their journey to U.S. citizenship. It is a reminder of its national motto E Pluribus Unum—Out of Many, One.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=ep4bmXjneUM&feature=emb_logo

1) First, start here: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/08/opinion/where-im-really-from/

Explore some of the stories included below the video as well.

2) Then watch this video about history and what is often forgotten:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOktqY5wY4A&t=7s

3) This is almost a coda to the above. FYI: Shots of Detroit are included here at 1:16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_livxZNCQeU

4) The power of history and its link with identity is also here:

https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/museum

Additional Reading: This article was written as there were growing concerns over AP History classes and which histories “mattered.” It links the discussion of how multiple narratives may indeed be the best way to investigate history, especially complex histories like those in the United States.

This started with a national discussion five years ago. Is the conversation settled? Why? Why not?

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/03/the-problem-with-history-classes/387823/

Another one is “In Syria” that I have uploaded.

Text: you only read Chapter 3 and 4.

It is minimum 6 pages.