Monday, October 21: Federal Writers Project / Text Analysis (pt.1)

Monday, October 21 – Federal Writers’ Project // Text Analysis (pt.1)

Due Today:

• Read Introduction to Jerrold Hirsch’s Portrait of America: A Cultural History of the Federal Writers’ Project.
  
  
• Read “America Eats: Pioneers of Food Writing” by Camille Bégin and explore the What America Ate project.
  
  
• Read Lauren Tilton’s article “Race and Place: Dialect and the Construction of Southern Identity in the Ex-Slave Narratives.”

Resources:

• Introduction to American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1940.

Assignments:

• Skills #5 pt.1: Corpus must be submitted to Professor Jess by Friday, October 25.