Has anybody recently had Mobley for Hi364 (i think) NC history? If so, do you remember what you actually had to know about the book 'blood done sign my name' for the final? just trying to make studying a bit easier...

thanks!

12/1/2007 7:59:21 PM

OH shit you are in my class, thats way cool!!


I think he's just going to ask us to identify Timothy Tyson.

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12/1/2007 8:40:44 PM

had to read that in Nacoste's psy 491

not a bad book

12/2/2007 6:52:16 PM

Yeah I love it so far, it's soooo North Carolina

12/2/2007 8:14:04 PM

We had to write about one character last semester. I can't remeber his name right now but I think it was the guy who killed the black guy and got away with it. I think Mobley changes it up every semester though. Anyway, it is a good book so read it if you can.

12/4/2007 11:08:03 AM

we have to identify one major character in the book for one 10 point question. who it will be is anybody's guess, but he doen't try to screw us. he said if you read the book you should be able to answer the question.

12/9/2007 5:52:02 PM

this book probably doesnt have Cliff's does it?

12/9/2007 7:36:20 PM

I loved this class when I took it 2 years ago. I remember having to read a different book...but I didnt read it cause I had all 100's on the previous tests so 10 points wouldnt make a difference to me.

I wouldnt read the book unless you really need the points (like boarder line A/A+). In the overall scheme of things, the hours you spend reading that book could probably help out your other classes more resulting in a higher overall GPA.

12/10/2007 12:01:15 PM

Quote :

" BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME: A True Story Timothy B. Tyson Crown Autobiography/History ISBN: 0609610589 In BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME, a young Vietnam veteran is killed in his home neighborhood, as suddenly as a summer storm, in an incident that provoked a conflagration of violence and hatred that has yet to be tamped back into the southern soil from which it sprang. Dickie Marrow lay helpless on the ground pleading for his life while three men beat him senseless with fists, feet and the butt of a rifle. Then someone cried, "Shoot the son of a bitch!" and one man fired a shot into Dickie's brain. There were witnesses. None of the perpetrators were questioned by the police until at least 48 hours after the occurrence, and people who voluntarily --- and at some danger to themselves --- offered to give testimony to the police immediately afterwards had to wait until they finally left the station. Dickie Marrow was black, his assailants white. The year was 1970, nearly ten years after civil rights was supposed to be a done deal in Oxford, North Carolina. The author, Tim Tyson (Professor of Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin), was a kid living in Oxford when the crime happened. His father was a well-known Methodist minister, which put him in the middle of the maelstrom, as everyone tried to cope with the tragic cruelty of one man's death, and the marches, speeches and fire-bombings that followed. Whites retreated behind stately porches; the Klan came in to make a statement about what would happen to anyone who tried to go up against the men who had committed the murder; and the blacks of the town, finally tired of waiting for the rights they had been guaranteed, ran amok. Years later, never able to wrest free from the ghosts of this significant piece of his past, Tyson went back to Oxford as a student putting together an academic explication of the events. Remarkably he was given passage to interview many of the participants including the presumptive killer, a man full of the rage of broken promises. Championed by the white supremacist majority at the time of Marrow's slaughter, he was quickly dropped once the trial was decided in his favor, and in the favor of the old guard. Tyson also got into the backrooms and barrooms where the Molotov cocktails had been manufactured, and into the heads of the young angry blacks who set them off, admittedly responsible for millions of dollars in damage to the town. Tyson traces his own family history, and that of the killers and the victim, drawing the lines that intersected and diverged as white liberals like his father tried to find common Christian cause with the oppressed and tormented African Americans whose culture they shared. Ultimately, there was no meeting place for the players, though a distant goodwill was always maintained beyond the barricades. Whites couldn't and didn't understand the multi-generational frustration of families like that of Ben Chavis, cousin of the victim and renowned activist with a reputation for encouraging young blacks to set fires when dialogue dried up and the courts offered no hope for change. A founding member of the Chavis family had been a soldier in the American Revolution, a free black who was reputedly murdered by a white terrorist for the sin of teaching white and black children in the same classes. From such a destiny a family cannot back away, though it may lead to a surfeit of wrong deeds for right reasons. BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME is a primer for understanding the currents and the undercurrents of the Civil Rights movement: the quixotic hopes of the feeble left, the self-destructive anger of the young, and the aftermath --- changes for the better, changes for the worse, and no real sense of closure on either side. Tyson makes as heroic an effort as anyone could to find redemptive truth through an intelligent cataloging of the complex and distressing facts of the case. In so doing, we are all condemned, and we are all exonerated. In his justification for concentrating so much of his creative life on the examination of the murder of Dickie Marrow, Tyson states, "We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.""

http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0609610589.asp

12/10/2007 12:02:44 PM

Sounds like a really interesting book. What class is this for exactly?

12/10/2007 1:55:45 PM

god damn.

12/11/2007 1:04:04 AM

NC history how fucking boring.

12/11/2007 5:11:32 PM

dumbass. its the history of mankind.

dont make me go find that photoshop.

12/12/2007 12:40:06 AM