HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES: AMERICA’S URBAN SCHOOLS Question 1 In chapter 5, Wilkerson explains how Miss Vale had difficulty fitting into the container that had been made for her as a black woman. What containers do people have for you that you long to break out of? Question 2 Wilkerson takes a look at the […]
What do Bomba’s and Weiss’ testimonies teach us about the ways in which men and women might have experienced Nazi terror differently?
Assignment 250 words for each question and must use information from attachments only 1. Question 1: Primo Levi (Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Auschwitz survivor) uses the concept of “the gray zone” to speak of the space inhabited by prisoners of the Nazis who become their accomplices. Why is this a philosophically meaningful zone to […]
What did the Nazis take from this idea, or did they and how are reservations and concentration camps similar and different?
Native American Reservations and Nazi Concentration Camps For years there has been talk that the Nazi concentration camps were based on Native American reservations in the United States. In other words, a verbal spar with a German might include the rebuttal of, “so, you started it with Native American reservations” when one talked about the […]