Island In Silence

1. Pheoby Watson: Janie's best friend

    Sam (Pheoby's husband), Pearl Stone, Mrs. Sumpkins, Lulu Moss

2. Nanny: Janie's grandmother; Washburn: Nanny's employer, white

• Janie was teased about living in the white folk's backyard
• Nanny & Janie's mother were both raped by white →Janie was not pure Black

   John Taylor: Janie's first kiss at 16 →blamed by Nanny

3. Logan Killicks: Janie's first husband

• Janie comforts herself that she would love her husband after getting married
• came to Nanny complaining that she still didn't love Logan
• Nanny died
• Janie's dream (about marriage) died

4. Joe Stark: Janie's 2nd husband

• Logan was not that nice and sweet
• Joe asked her to marry and leave with him
• A big fight between Logan and Janie, Janie left

Tony Talor(chairman of the committee meeting), Lee Coker, Amos Hicks, Lige Moss, Sim Jones, Sam Watson(“this town is nothing without Joe”)

• Jody and Janie came to a new town, he bought 200 acres, put up a store and became the mayor;  post office, street lamp, town ditch…
• Jody had a new house
• people started to gossip about the Mayor

How is Janie's story/Bildungsroman similar or different from Jane's?

• Related questions in class:

1. is Janie a thinker?
2. How do the 2 girls’ foster families influence their growing up?
3. What are Jane+Janie’s main motivations in making decisions?
4. Is one more feminist?
5. How long is Janie going to stand not showing her emotions before exploding?
6. How does Janie view herself racially and view the world based on race?                           →civil war, Jim Crow laws, black towns — Where’s her pride? 

• click to read my journal on their comparison

Watch for--

1. Hurston's language choice
2. setting: 1930's Jin Chow South
3. What is this reading's message about racial identity
4. How does Janie's story relate the history of all African-Americans?

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杰姆·克劳法   Jim Crow laws

泛指美国南部各州自19世纪70年代开始制定的对黑人实行种族隔离或种族歧视的法律。

具体是说1876年至1965年间美国南部各州以及边境各州对有色人种（主要针对非洲裔美国人，但同时也包含其他族群）实行种族隔离制度的法律。

Jim Crow原是19C上半叶黑人歌舞剧中一首歌曲的名称，剧中扮演反叛者的黑人在歌词中曾用Jim Crow的名字，以后就成为对黑人的蔑称。这种法律实质上是美国内战结束后南部各州白人种族主义政府所制定的“黑人法典”的继续，主要内容是通过征收人头税、选举登记、文化测验、仅容许白人参加预选、“祖父条款”（即法律规定本人或其祖辈在1867年参加投票者才享有选举权）等手段，剥夺黑人选举权；并在学校、住区、公共交通、公共场所（包括旅馆、剧场、公园、教堂、医院、娱乐体育场所等）以及就业、司法、军役、婚姻等各方面，实行残酷的种族隔离和种族歧视

这些法律上的种族隔离强制公共设施必须依照种族的不同而隔离使用，且在隔离但平等的原则下，种族隔离被解释为不违反宪法保障的同等保护权，因此得以持续存在。但事实上黑人所能享有的部份与白人相较往往是较差的，而这样的差别待遇也造成了黑人长久以来处于经济、教育及社会上叫为若是的地位。

1865年至1876年的重建时期，联邦法律为南方的自由黑人提供一定程度的民权保护。重建结束后，南方各州政府、立法机构及法院重新被南方白人所掌控，一系列吉姆·克劳法被通过来隔离种族。

1945年后，美国民权运动兴起，民权团体用联邦法律来抵抗吉姆·克劳法。例如著名的“布朗诉托皮卡教育局案”于1954年由美国最高法院作成判决，终止了公立学校中的种族隔离；美国国会随后在1964年通过《1964年民权法案》及《1965年投票权法案》，禁止法律上有任何形式的种族隔离和歧视政策，吉姆·克劳法在法律层面上正式走入历史。