Friday, December 20, 2019

How Does Mcfee Identify Six Major Areas Of Social Change

In an attempt to prepare the art educator to the paradigm shift in classroom and develop a cohesive curriculum this would comprise the needs of the students and teachers to think about cultures different from their own. While I admire McFee’s interest in cultural diversity and the plight of African Americans. However, her essay is written from a privileged White middle-class perceptive with about her understanding of African Americans. How does McFee identify six major areas of social change in America of the sixties? More importantly, how does the stereotypes of African Americans influence art, education, and society? The first major social change is the emergence of minority groups. These minority group where predominately African Americans a part of the second Great Migration from the rural South to the urban North. African Americans moved in masses from the South to the North, referred to as the first great migration in the early 1900s (Mendenhall, 2010). Between 1940 and 1950, another 1.5 million African Americans left the South; and over the twenty years about another 5 million (Holt, n.d). The growing demand for workers in northern factories, living under the Jim Crow’s laws and racial discrimination helped many families make their decision. McFee (1966) states desegregation of public institutions was a service to African Americans, opened the door to opportunities and had a dynamic effect. In reality, civil rights were fought for years and these so-called

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