Research

So I went to an exhibit of Romare Bearden yesterday in the Reginald F Lewis Museum, with my Africans in the New World class. Some really great collage work.

I also wanted to include the two books I just finished reading and would really recommend. One was Lies my teacher told me by James W. Loewen and the other was A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki.

Lies my teacher told me was investigating history text books in the US and spoke about specific people and events that had been left out of textbooks and analyzed why.
Takaki does not speak at all about or to textbooks but is just a history book in itself and is really really informative. It goes through the different groups immigrating to the US throughout different time periods and the problems they endured and how they over come or attempted to over come these political and social problems.