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Black History & Culture in Sesame Street
Mrs. Morgan
Average rating:5.0Number of reviews:(4)
In this one time course, students will learn about the uniquely embedded elements and origins of Black history & culture in Sesame Street.
Class experience
US Grade 1 - 4
Debuting in 1969, Sesame Street was the creation of Lloyd Morrisett and Joan Ganz Cooney, a journalist and former public TV documentary producer who produced a documentary about a Harlem pre-school program that would later become known as Head Start. Cooney was committed to serving low income, children of color through media representation and used her expertise to create the famed and critically acclaimed show. The show, whose original target audience was 4-year-old Black children, has...
A short PDF handout will be provided in the Outschool Classroom.
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
- Sesame Street - Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles over U.S. Television by Allison Perlman - Sesame Street Revisited by Thomas D. Cook, Hilary Appleton, Ross F. Conner, Ann Shaffer, Gary Tamkin, & Stephen J. Weber - Through the Eyes of a Child: Representations of Blackness in Children's Television Programming by Ebony M. Roberts - Statewide Dissemination of Sesame Street Resources for Families Affected by Incarceration by Rebecca J. Shlafer, Amanda A. Wanous and Erin C. Schubert - Soul: Black Power, Politics, and Pleasure by Monique Guillory & Richard C. Green - The Forgotten Tale of How Black Psychiatrists Helped Make ‘Sesame Street’ - The Proud Black History of Sesame Street - The Unmistakable Black Roots of ‘Sesame Street’ | Smithsonian Magazine - Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (Documentary)
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**ON LEAVE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 2024** Morgan Jael is a graduate of Washington University in St Louis where she earned her Bachelors of Arts Degree in African/African American Studies and participated in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research...
Group Class
$13
per classMeets once
50 min
Completed by 2 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 6-10
4-10 learners per class
