1、Unit 7 Id Rather Be Black than Female新世纪高等院校英语专业本科系列教材(修订版)综合教程第六册(第2版)电子教案上海外语教育出版社南京信息工程大学 刘杰海第1页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案Contents pageContents Learning Objectives Pre-reading Activities Global Reading Detailed Reading Consolidation Activities Further Enhancement第2页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案ObjectivesLearning Objectives
2、Rhetorical skill:comparison,rhetorical questions and parallelismKey language&grammar pointsWriting strategies:authors experiencesTheme:sexism and racism第3页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案Pre-R:picture activation-1Can you define racial discrimination and sexual discrimination in your own words?Picture Activation|Pre-q
3、uestions第4页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案Pre-R:picture activation-2Sexism is discrimination based on the gender of a person-looking down on people because they are male or female.Racism is the belief that a particular race is better or worse than another,and that a person is born with their social and moral traits,
4、which are related to their race.Picture Activation|Pre-questions第5页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案Pre-R:Pre-questions-11.“Sitting in the same classroom,reading the same textbook,listening to the same teacher,boys and girls receive very different educations.”(Sadker,D.,Sadker,M.1994.Failing at Fairness:How Our School
5、s Cheat Girls.Toronto:Simon&Schuster Inc.)Boys are encouraged to be active and bold,while girls are praised for being quiet and attentive.Did your teachers in your primary school or high school treat and educate students differently based on sex?Do you think there exists gender bias in our classroom
6、s?Picture Activation|Pre-questionsOpen for discussion.第6页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案Pre-R:Pre-questions-22.Throughout history,though women have been constantly made aware that they are inferior to men,there are still a lot of women who have made significant contributions to society or obtained great achievements
7、 in various areas.Is there any great female that you know well or admire?If your answer is“yes,”tell her story and the reasons for which you admire her.Picture Activation|Pre-questionsOpen for discussion.第7页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:text introduction-1 In“Id Rather Be Black Than Female”(1970),the author Shi
8、rley Chisholm,a black woman,identifies and analyses the sexual discrimination in 1970s American politics and,after investigating her own bitter experiences before and after she became the countrys first black congresswoman,draws the surprising conclusion that prejudice based on sex is even more seri
9、ous than racial prejudice.It is surprising because American society as a whole now acknowledges the racial inequality but both men and women are simply blind to the unfair treatment of women in the game of politics.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第8页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:text introductio
10、n-2She expresses her conviction that women have their own special contribution to make to the country and that their more active participation in politics would improve the country.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第9页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-sit-ins-1sit-ins(Paragraph 3)The first sit-in t
11、ook place on February 1,1960.Four freshmen at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into an F.W.Woolworth Company store in Greensboro,North Carolina,purchased some school supplies,then went to the lunch counter and asked to be served.They knew they probably would not be.They w
12、ere black,and this lunch counter was segregated.When they were forced to leave as the store closed,they still had not been served.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第10页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-sit-ins-2 The next day a larger group of students returned,the media reported the event,and civil
13、 rights organizations began to spread the word to other college campuses.The basic plan of the sit-ins was that a group of black students would go to a lunch counter and ask to be served.If they were,theyd move on to the next lunch counter.If they were not,they would not move until they had been.If
14、they were arrested,a new group would take their place.The students always remained nonviolent and respectful.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第11页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-sit-ins-3Another part of the sit-ins was that the students would be dressed up in their best Sunday clothing.By August
15、 1961,they had attracted over 70,000 participants and generated over 3,000 arrests.They continued in some areas of the South until and even after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 declared segregation at lunch counters unlawful.The sit-ins showed that nonviolent direct action and youth cou
16、ld be very useful weapons in the war against segregation.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第12页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-boycottsboycotts(Paragraph 3)The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started on December 1,1955.That was the day when the blacks of Montgomery,Alabama,decided that they wou
17、ld boycott the city buses until they could sit anywhere they wanted,instead of being relegated to the back when a white boarded.The boycotts lasted for about a year.On January 10 and 11,1957,the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC)was founded,of which Martin Luther King,Jr.,was elected pre
18、sident.Till then,the Montgomery Bus Boycott was ultimately successful.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第13页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-free rides-1freedom rides(Paragraph 3)In 1947,the Congress of Racial Equality(CORE)planned a“Journey of Reconciliation,”designed to test the Supreme Courts 1
19、946 decision which declared segregated seating of interstate passengers unconstitutional.An interracial group of passengers met with heavy resistance in the upper South.The Journey of Reconciliation quickly broke down.Clearly the South was not ready for integration.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Au
20、thor|Structure第14页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-free rides-2Nearly a decade and a half later,John F.Kennedy was elected president.To test the presidents commitment to civil rights,the CORE proposed a new Journey of Reconciliation,called the“Freedom Ride.”The strategy was the same:an interracial group would b
21、oard buses destined for the South.The whites would sit in the back and the blacks in the front.At rest stops,the whites would go into blacks-only areas and vice versa.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第15页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-free rides-3The Freedom Ride left Washington,D.C.on May 4,19
22、61.It was scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17.Unlike the original Journey of Reconciliation,the Freedom Ride met with little resistance in the upper South.However,on May 14,the Freedom Riders split up into two groups to travel through Alabama.The first group was met by a mob of about 200 an
23、gry people in Anniston.The other group did not fare any better.It was greeted by a mob in Birmingham,and the Riders were severely beaten.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第16页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-free rides-4The Freedom Riders never made it to New Orleans.Many spent their summer in jai
24、l.Some were scarred for life from the beatings they received.But their efforts were not in vain.They forced the Kennedy administration to take a stand on civil rights,which was the intent of the Freedom Ride in the first place.In addition,the Interstate Commerce Commission outlawed segregation in in
25、terstate bus travel in a ruling.The Freedom Riders may not have finished their trip,but they made an important and lasting contribution to the Civil Rights Movement.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第17页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-separate-but-equal-1separate-but-equal(Paragraph 6)(“Separate
26、But Equal”Plessy v.Ferguson Decision)On June 7,1892,a 30-year-old colored shoemaker named Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the“White”car of the East Louisiana Railroad.Plessy was only one-eighth black and seven-eighths white,but under Louisiana law,he was considered black and therefore require
27、d to sit in the“Colored”car.Plessy went to court and argued,in Homer Adolph Plessy v.The State of Louisiana,that the Separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第18页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-separate-but-equal-2The
28、 judge at the trial was John Howard Ferguson,a lawyer from Massachusetts who had previously declared the Separate Car Act“unconstitutional on trains that traveled through several states.”In Plessys case,however,he decided that the state could choose to regulate railroad companies that operated only
29、within Louisiana.He found Plessy guilty of refusing to leave the“White”car.Plessy appealed to the Supreme Court of Louisiana,which upheld Fergusons decision.In 1896,the Supreme Court of the United States heard Plessys case and found him guilty once again.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Struct
30、ure第19页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-separate-but-equal-3The Plessy decision set the precedent that“separate”facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional as long as they were“equal.”The“separate but equal”doctrine was quickly extended to cover many areas of public life,such as restaurants,theaters,re
31、strooms,and public schools.Not until 1954,in the equally important Brown v.Board of Education decision,would the“separate but equal”doctrine be struck down.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第20页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-civil-rightscivil-rights(Paragraph 9)The Civil Rights Movement was at a
32、 peak from 19551965.Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965,guaranteeing basic civil rights for all Americans,regardless of race,after nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and marches,ranging from the 19551956 Montgomery bus boycott to the student-led sit-ins
33、 of the 1960s to the Freedom Rides in 1961.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第21页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-PTAsPTAs(Paragraph 9)The PTA(Parent-Teacher Association)is the largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the United States.It is a not-for-profit association of parents,educator
34、s,students,and other citizens active in their schools and communities.The PTA has 6 million members working in 26,000 PTAs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第22页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:CN-James farmerJames Farmer(Paragraph 9)Born in Marshall,Texa
35、s,James Farmer(19201999)was an educator,administrator,and one of the founders of the Congress of Racial Equality(CORE).Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第23页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:author-bioShirley Chisholm(1924)the first African-American woman elected to the U.S.Congress,was a passionate a
36、nd effective advocate of equal rights for minorities,women and children who changed the nations perception about the capabilities of women and African-Americans.Text Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|Structure第24页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案G-R:structureText Introduction|Culture Notes|Author|StructurePart 1(Para
37、1)the point of argument:being black is much less of a drawback than being femalePart 2(Para 2-13)the discussion of the two drawbacksPart 3(Para 14-17)the authors determination and attitude towards discrimination against women第25页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案DR-p1-textID RATHER BE BLACK THAN FEMALE Shirley Chisholm
38、1.Being the first black woman elected to Congress has made me some kind of phenomenon.There are nine other blacks in Congress;there are ten other women.I was the first to overcome both handicaps at once.Of the two handicaps,being black is much less of a drawback than being female.Detailed Reading第26
39、页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案DR-p2-text2.If I said that being black is a greater handicap than being a woman,probably no one would question me.Why?Because“we all know”there is prejudice against black people in America.That there is prejudice against women is an idea that still strikes nearly all men and,I am afra
40、id,most women as bizarre.Detailed Reading第27页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案DR-p3-text3.Prejudice against blacks was invisible to most white Americans for many years.When blacks finally started to“mention”it,with sit-ins,boycotts,and freedom rides,Americans were incredulous.“Who,us?”they asked in injured tones.“Were
41、 prejudiced?”It was the start of a long,painful reeducation for white America.It will take years for whites including those who think of themselves as liberals to discover and eliminate the racist attitudes they all actually have.Detailed Reading第28页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案DR-p4-text4.How much harder will it
42、be to eliminate the prejudice against women?I am sure it will be a longer struggle.Part of the problem is that women in America are much more brainwashed and content with their roles as second-class citizens than blacks ever were.Detailed Reading第29页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案DR-p5-text5.Let me explain.I have be
43、en active in politics for more than twenty years.For all but the last six,I have done the work all the tedious details that make the difference between victory and defeat on election day while men reaped the rewards,which is almost invariably the lot of women in politics.Detailed Reading第30页综合教程6(第2
44、版)电子教案DR-p6-text6.It is still women about three million volunteers who do most of this work in the American political world.The best any of them can hope for is the honor of being district or county vice-chairman,a kind of separate-but-equal position with which a woman is rewarded for years of faith
45、ful envelope stuffing and card-party organizing.In such a job,she gets a number of free trips to state and sometimes national meetings and conventions,where her role is supposed to be to vote the way her male chairman votes.Detailed Reading第31页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案DR-p7-8-text7.When I tried to break out of
46、 that role in 1963 and run for the New York State Assembly seat from Brooklyns Bedford Stuyvesant,the resistance was bitter.From the start of that campaign,I faced undisguised hostility because of my sex.8.But it was four years later,when I ran for Congress,that the question of my sex became a major
47、 issue.Among members of my own party,closed meetings were held to discuss ways of stopping me.Detailed Reading第32页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案DR-p9-text9.My opponent,the famous civil-rights leader James Farmer tried to project a black,masculine image;he toured the neighborhood with sound trucks filled with young
48、men wearing Afro haircuts,dashikis,and beards.While the television crews ignored me,they were not aware of a very important statistic,which both I and my campaign manager,Wesley MacD.Holder,knew.In my district there are 2.5 women for every man registered to vote.And those are organized in PTAs,churc
49、h societies,card clubs,and other social and service groups.I went to them and asked their help.Mr.Farmer still doesnt quite know what hit him.Detailed Reading第33页综合教程6(第2版)电子教案DR-p10-text10.When a bright young woman graduate starts looking for a job,why is the first question always:“Can you type?”A
50、history of prejudice lies behind that question.Why are women thought of as secretaries,not administrators?Librarians and teachers,but not doctors and lawyers?Because they are thought of as different and inferior.The happy homemaker and the contented darky are both stereotypes produced by prejudice.D
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