English 320: Clybourne Park: Teaching Resources

Created by the Education & Community Programs department at Portland Center Stage (Portland, OR). Readings include:
"The 'Clybourne Park' in A Raisin in the Sun", "White Flight & Gentrification" as well as additional articles specific to housing discrimination and gentrification in the city of Portland.

Provides interview with playwright, timeline, discussion questions and activites, related readings from Uprooting Racism, etc.

From Teaching Tolerance, "This lesson is the first lesson of the series The Color of Law: The Role of Government in Shaping Racial Inequity. In this lesson, students examine the local, state and federal policies that supported racially discriminatory practices and cultivated racially segregated housing." Includes links to zoning maps and primary source images.

From NEH's EDSITEment -- "This interdisciplinary lesson includes a critical reading and analysis of the play, close examination of biographical and historical documents produced at different times during the long civil rights movement, and assessment options that provide students with opportunities to produce new scenes in graphic or comic form, a newly imagined script based on primary source research, a soundtrack for the play, and annotated maps that bridge the past and the present."

From Teaching Tolerance, this toolkit suggests ways to use primary sources to help students uncover the realities of segregation and how it was deliberately perpetuated in the United States.

One online copy of this book is available to borrow through Internet Archive's Open Library. Might provide ideas of primary source documents to use in support of Clybourne Park or Raisin in the Sun discussions.