Hugh O’Donnell tagged me for this meme.
Because many of the blogs I read by educators have already been tagged, I am going to tag the following educators: Mark Elrod, Bald Blogger, JRB, Tenured Radical and Dave’s Internet Lounge.
THE RULES:
Post a picture or make/take/create your own that captures what YOU are most passionate for students to learn about.
Give your picture a short title.
Title your blog post “Meme: Passion Quilt.”
Link back to this blog entry.
Include links to 5 (or more) educators.
My Title: I am Still an Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison’s classic novel, Invisible Man, highlights the challenges many blacks felt in white America:
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids — and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination — indeed, everything and anything except me.
Thanks, Eddie.
I’ve passed it on.
That is a moving picture. I am always moved by Ellison’s intro piece to that book.
I love the way the world has changed. I suspect many students see what Ellison addressed and the art piece as being in another world. I fear this.
Are you watching Black Magic on ESPN? Do you think your black student athletes understand the importance of race and sports?
I am building a virtual quilt from these passion posts, using your images as blocks, with link-backs to your original posts. You can see the passion quilt article here.
And the link to the quilt is here.
Thank you, Edward. I’ll never get over the irony of how visibility contributes to invisibility.
saintreester,
I love what you have done. Wow!!!
I wish I could influence some of the young African-American men I see at the high school I work at to read Ellison’s novel. The passage you quoted (first page?) is as accurate now as it was in the early ’50’s. Maybe this generation is different. I have yet to meet young folks, black or white, who are reflective enough to answer the question for me.