Written Assignment: (Goals 1,2,3; Core Goals 1,2,3,4,5) What were some of the historical causes of and consequences of American immigration? What were some of the specific techniques that Hine used to humanize his subjects and stimulate efforts toward social reform?  Choose either child labor or the working conditions of adult immigrants and discuss a minimum of six photographic examples and 3 techniques.  You will find an analysis of techniques in the links above.  Find photographs by Hine other than those used on that website to illustrate your assignment. How does this work resemble and differ from that of Carrie Mae Weems and Robert A. Sengstacke? Compare and contract the three photographers.

these will involve: 1) looking at photographs that address a social issue, 2) reading, 3) analyzing, 4) writing, 5) taking and organizing photographs that are sociologically informed and 6) presenting to the class.  Students will need to effectively communicate course material in written, visual and oral format and apply sociological concepts to efforts to create visual documents. Students should be prepared to actively participate in the use of the course materials to learn on a regular basis throughout the semester.  Work cannot be made up at the end and will not be accepted if a student has not been an active participant throughout.

Rubric for grading each of the 5 essay assignments (total for 5 assignments=50% of grade):
Followed assignment directions                    (5 points)
Minimum 600 words                            (2 points)
Properly cited photographs and other sources (e.g.correct titles)    (2 points)       
Submitted written portion on time                     (1 point)

Weeks 3-4: Social Reform and Child Labor, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Lewis Hine, Social Reform and Child Labor, 1908-1912. Working conditions. Immigration.

Native Americans.

The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture

Listen to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/retropod/the-photographer-that-helped-end-child-labor-in-america/

Read:

http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2015/10/kids-coal-mines-lewis-hines-photos

Marlou Schrover, The Migration to North America, University of Leiden, http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/chapter52.html

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest
Library of Congress, American Memory Project: http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/
American Indians in the Northwest Coast and Plateau regions of the Pacific Northwest

The American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library
Library of Congress, American Memory Projecthttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html
photographs taken between 1860 and 1920, including images of Colorado towns, landscapes, mining scenes, and members of more than 40 Native Americans tribes living West of the Mississippi River.

Images of African Americans from the 19th Century
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library Digital Library Collectionhttp://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/
More than 650 nineteenth-century images depicting social, political, and cultural worlds of African Americans in 19th century American.

Lewis Hine:

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/

http://memory.loc.gov/pp/nclchtml/nclcabt.html

Please watch this YouTube video interview on Lewis Hine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tY1gk6J6zc

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2019/01/focusing-on-lewis-hines-photographic-technique/

For a contrasting view of how a contemporary black female photographer looks at race, here is an introduction to the work of Carrie Mae Weems and a bibliographic overview:

http://carriemaeweems.net/galleries/kitchen-table.html

http://carriemaeweems.net/galleries/from-here.html#header

http://carriemaeweems.net/bio.html
Robert A. Sengstacke is one of the most significant photographers of the American civil rights era. Here is an overview of his work:

http://www.manumitschool.com/people/student-biographies/robert-sengstacke

https://luna.lib.uchicago.edu/luna/servlet/uofclibmgr2~5~5