Incorporating Art Into a Unit on Social Justice

Below is a list of artworks, artists, and links to include in a unit on social justice. I'd love to add your recommendations to the list!

·      Photography of Dorothea Lange – Depression Era, poverty, migrant workers, Japanese internment camps

·      Guernica – Pablo Picasso (protest against bombing of a village in Spain)

·      The Third of May 1808 and The Disasters of War series – Francisco de Goya

·      The Raft of the Medusa – Theodore Géricault

·      The Uprising – Diego Rivera

·      Self Portrait Along the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States – Frida Kahlo

·      The Prison Courtyard – Vincent van Gogh

·      The Problem We All Live With and Southern Justice – Norman Rockwell

·      Roger Shimomura – works on racism, Japanese internment, identity, culture

·      Liberty Leading the People – Eugene Delacroix

·      Flower Sellers of London and London – Gustave Doré

·      Art of Käthe Kollwitz

·      http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1678584_1477732,00.html

·      http://digitalsynopsis.com/inspiration/36-thought-provoking-paintings-pawel-kuczynski/

·      http://www.relevantmagazine.com/culture/banksy%E2%80%99s-10-most-powerful-works-social-commentary

·      https://nladesignvisual.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/willie-bester-1956/

·      http://www.boredpanda.com/powerful-social-advertisements/

·      http://www.boredpanda.com/collage-art-social-issues-joe-webb/

·      https://amandalouisesummerscales.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/artists-research/ (domestic violence)

·      Nicolas Lampert, A People's Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements (New York, The New Press, 2013)

·      http://www.nicolaslampert.org/ - Pages on community art, art activism, art focused on social justice and ecology

·      http://urfaim.blogspot.com/2009/06/peoples-media-case-study-on-art-of.html (The art of Emory Douglas for the Black Panther Party)

·      https://www.pinterest.com/explore/political-art/

·      http://art-for-a-change.com/blog/

Poems About Social Justice/Social Issues

I will continue adding to this list as I find new poems. Please leave any recommendations you have in the comments below so I can add them.

·      Langston Hughes

o   “Harlem” (“Dream Deferred”) – “I, Too” – “Let America Be America Again” - “The Weary Blues” – “Theme for English B” – “Madam and the Charity Child” – “Mother to Son” – “Out of Work” – “The Ballad of the Landlord”

·      Countee Cullen

o   “Incident” – “Thoughts in a Zoo” – “Tableau” – “I Have a Rendezvous With Life” – “Uncle Jim” – “Saturday’s Child”

·      Maya Angelou

o   “Still I Rise” – “In All Ways a Woman” – “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” – “On the Pulse of the Morning”

·      Paul Laurence Dunbar

o   “We Wear the Mask” – “Sympathy”

·      Alfred, Lord Tennyson

o   “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

·      Rudyard Kipling

o   “The Last of the Light Brigade” – “Justice”

·      William Blake

o   “The Chimney Sweeper” (from Songs of Innocence) – “The Chimney Sweeper” (from Songs of Experience)

·      Jacqueline Woodson – various poems from Brown Girl Dreaming

·      Robert Frost

o   “Mending Wall”

·      Yusef Komunyakaa

o   “Ghazal, After Ferguson”

·      Ailish Hopper

o   “Did It Ever Occur to You That Maybe You’re Falling in Love?”

·      Tony Hoagland

o   “America

·      Chase Twichell

o   “Corporate Geese” – “Negligent Worldicide”

·      Robinson Jeffers

o   “The Answer” – “The Purse-Seine”

·      Richard Michelson

o   “Counting to Six Million”

·      Nikki Giovanni

o   “The Song of the Feet”

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