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Space, place, & identity-Notes for a lesson on The Hate U Give

2/1/2018

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Yi-Fu Tuan (1977 ) first explored and articulated how ideas of space and place depend upon one other for definition, arguing that if ‘‘we think of space as that which allows movement, then place is a pause’’ (p. 6). Tim Cresswell elaborates on this claim, noting that ‘‘When humans invest meaning in a portion of space and then become attached to it in some way… , it becomes place’’ (2004 , p. 10). This place, then, can take the form of home, for Tuan, a fundamental concept to people around the globe.

Source: Glenn, Wendy. 2017. "Space and Place and the 'American’ Legacy: Female Protagonists and the Discovery of Self in Two Novels for Young Adults. Children's Literature in Education 48:378–395.

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Write about a place that's central to your identity. What makes that place important to who you are? 

"This not an anti-cop book" - Angie Thomas

Influences and references in
The Hate U Give

Tupac Amaru Shakur
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Trayvon Martin & Rachel Jeantel
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​Angie Thomas says of Jeantel, "I remember being so angry at how people characterized her just because they didn't think she presented herself the way they would have presented themselves." 

With Starr, "I wanted to say, Here's a black girl who is saying things the way you think that she should say them, but are you listening?"
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Oscar Grant
"I first got the idea for the book after the shooting death of Oscar Grant, a young man in Oakland, California. I was in college at the time, and a lot like Starr, I went to a mostly white, upper-class conservative school and I lived in what we can call the hood. Every day, I would make a 10-minute drive to school from where I lived, and I would hear two different conversations about Oscar. In my neighborhood, Oscar was 'one of us,' but in my school, he 'shouldn’t have done this or that,' or 'he got what he deserved'.”
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/books/a9083515/the-hate-u-give-angie-thomas/

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Book-a-Day Whiteboards #3: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (2017)

12/8/2017

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Read: Dec. 4, 2017
Thumbs: Middle Up
But why, Sue? I enjoyed this book and found myself making lots of connections to other texts and genres, including Sister Soulja's The Coldest Winter Ever (a book I don't love, but whose popularity is significant) and blaxploitation cinema of the '70s. The Hate U Give draws from such sources, but creates something contemporary, rich, and intense.
My main issue is the book's length, which doesn't seem necessary enough to make up for the readers it might put off - readers who, possibly, would love this book most.

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