Explain the reasons why Darren Matthews’s family has been quite successful while other Black families (like that of Darren’s mom) have struggled so badly in East Texas? After all, Darren has one uncle who was a TX Ranger and another who is a UT law school professor and Darren has been the beneficiary of elite private school education. What is the key to all this? Why were such a small percentage of freedmen property-owners in the immediate aftermath of Reconstruction? How had some managed to defy the trend as in the case of the Mathews extended family? What difference might “40-acres-and-a -mule” have made had it actually been implemented? What difference would we perhaps see in our society today? Why wasn’t such a radical policy of land reform enacted? What does that tell you about the end of Reconstruction? Did Reconstruction fail or is there a better way to describe its demise? How does Bluebird, Bluebird reveal what the author describes as her “deep love for East Texas.” To what extent does the novel fit with this course’s theme of “freedom”? How does it relate to what you learned in Chapter 15 and “Reconstruction”? Make sure to include in your response numerous citations and\/or quotations from Bluebird, Bluebird, Give Me Liberty!, primary sources you’ve encountered this semester, and video clips (e.g. Art History, Birth of a Nation). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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