Full Description
This volume provides pre-service teachers, in-service teachers, social studies methods teachers, and college level social studies content faculty a variety of resources for teaching and learning about the New Deal Era. Written with teachers in mind, each chapter introduces content that both addresses and disrupts master narratives concerning the historical significance of the New Deal era, while offering a creative pedagogical approach to reconciling instructional challenges. The book offers teachers a variety of ways to engage middle and high school students in economic and political arguments about American capitalism and the role of the federal government in defining and sustaining capitalism, as sparked by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies. Among the significant actors in the chapters are women, Indigenous/Native, African-descended, Latinx, Asian Pacific Island, and LGBTQ+ people. The New Deal generation included farmers, sharecroppers, industrial workers, and homemakers who were more willing than ever to question the capitalists and politicians in official leadership, and also willing to demand an economy and government that served the working and middle classes, as well as the wealthy. Roosevelt's New Deal offered such a promise. For some, he was considered a class traitor who went too far. To others, he was considered a coward who did not go far enough. The legacies of the New Deal inform much of the public debate of the early 21st century and are, therefore, relevant for classroom examination.
Contents
Andrea Guiden Pittman/Jenice L. View: Preface - Jenice L. View: Stepping into the New Deal: A Meet and Greet - John R. Gram: Teaching the Indian New Deal - Daniella Ann Cook/Jeffrey C. Eargle: Centering the Black Experience in Teaching the New Deal - Yolanda Chávez Leyva: Years of Desperation, Years of Hope: The New Deal on the Border - Andrea Guiden Pittman: LGBTQIA+ Figures and the New Deal - John H. Bickford: When Change Confronts Continuity: The Roosevelts' Battles Over Civil Rights - Angela Y. Wang: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Revered President or Overt Racist? - Elizabeth Milnarik/Jenice L. View: The Federally Funded American Dream: Public Housing and the New Deal - Scott L. Roberts/Charles Elfer: Hollywood or History? The Grapes of Wrath (1940) - Adam Sanchez: The New New Deal: Teaching a People's History of the New Deal - Matthew Campbell: Beyond the New Deal: Historiography and Pedagogy in the Classroom - Whitney G. Blankenship/Caroline R. Pryor/Amy Wilkinson: Resources and Lesson Plans - Appendix A - Appendix B - Contributors - Index.
