Reader report and a movie review

Name: ________________ April 10, 2020

AAS 27100: Introduction to African American Studies Crooklyn Guided Screening Notes

Due: Friday, April 10, 2020 by 11:59 PM to Blackboard

Instructions: As you watch Crooklyn, type your answers to each of the questions using complete sentences in the space provided below.

1. Explain two ways that African American working-class families are portrayed in Crooklyn? Use evidence from the film to support your explanation. (2pts.)

2. Does the Carmichael family function as a matriarchy, patriarchy, or some combination of both? Identify and explain at least two scenes from the film that are evidence of your chosen family function. (2pts.)

3. Explain the role of the extended family member in Crooklyn. Use evidence from the film to support your answer. (2pts.)

4. Explain how social and environmental issues such as gender roles, the interaction of the family with each other and other people, and/or the discipline and socialization of the children, etc. impacted the structure of the Carmichael family. Use evidence from the film to support your answer. (2pts.)

5. Explain how systemic issues such as poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, racism, crime, and/or government treatment, etc. impacted the structure of the Carmichael family. Use evidence from the film to support your answer. (2pts.)

6. Explain how the portrayal of the Carmichael’s immediate and extended family either a) represents Candace Jenkin’s definition of family in Keywords for African American Studies or b) connects with statements made in ch. 21, “The African American Family,” by Gwendolyn S. Pater from Africana Studies. Use statements from the reading and evidence from the film to support your explanation. (3pts.)

_____ / 13 pts.