Disco was increasingly labelled gay and elitist, while rock music became emblematic of white working class heterosexuals.
An Us vs Them mentality applied to recreation/leisure is just ridiculous. I could be wrong, but I thought of the colored demographic behind Disco's support that could have contributed to its stigma.
From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior
We've been tempted to believe this largely because it is true.
These owners dismissed the feminists as “troublemakers” and “zealots,” and drew upon the “common sense” notion that respectable women would have no interest in socially trespassing into the male domain.
The fact that this logic was widely accepted as "common sense" is very telling of the stigma of inferiority attached to the female gender as a result of centuries of inequality and oppression.
The man runs everything. In ordinary marriage, sex is supposed to be for your husband. On A.F.D.C.,you're not supposed to have any sex at all. You give up control of your own body. It's a condition of aid. Youmay even have to agree to get your tubes tied so you can never have more children just to avoid being offwelfare.The man, the welfare system, controls your money. He tells you what to buy, what not to buy, where tobuy it, and how much things cost. If thingsrent, for instancereally cost more than he says they do, it's justtoo bad for you.
Very powerful description of an example of the dangers of gender inequality. Makes me wonder what supporters of patriarchy argued to counter these points.
Like every other group, we must be judged by our leaders and by those who are themselves gay,those who are visible. For invisible, we remain in limbo – a myth, a person with no parents, nobrothers, no sisters, no friends who are straight, no important positions in employment. A tenth ofthe nation supposedly composed of stereotypes and would-be seducers of children – and no offensemeant to the stereotypes. But today, the black community is not judged by its friends, but by its blacklegislators and leaders. And we must give people the chance to judge us by our leaders andlegislators. A gay person in office can set a tone, con command respect not only from the largercommunity, but from the young people in our own community who need both examples and hope.
Reminds me Nixon's concept of a "silent majority" and how such population would respond to the vocal minorities regarding civil rights rather than war/foreign affairs.
Culbert notes two jarring events that seemed made for television’s vivid imagery, creating lasting effects on the American psyche.
This whole situation reminds me of Plato's allegory of the cave: Americans being accustomed to peace (not considering civil unrest) while being blind to the fact that other countries suffer as a result of us "containing communism" and being shocked to find out about the reality of what has really been going on in these other countries being "saved" by us.
In class-based solidarity, she writes, both groups found increased cross-racial respect—and a sense that their struggles, though different in color, subject, and expression, were the same.
Far too often, it takes us so long to recognize that humans are humans despite our differences. If only we could learn to be more compassionate of one another, so many problems would be solved and finally a new, profound sense of respect could emerge between all parties, similar to that between the Black Panthers and the United Farm Workers.
This podcast gives a look into the oppression that non-black minorities faced and emphasizes the hardships faced by these people that often goes overlooked as we learn about history, which in itself is a lesson that injustice exists everywhere and that we must remain conscious of its prevalence in order to to drive it to its end.
The story of Hazel Scott truly is a tragedy. To think that her life was ruined by an illusionary threat, perpetuated by delusional individuals, is just such a sad glimpse into how mass hysteria and the media dominate the dynamic of society.
One report indicates that the belief that the Great Society programs increased poverty is based upon flawed studies.
Regardless of the subjectivity of Great Society Programs, I personally think they were well-needed steps in the right direction. Society today would continue to benefit immensely from programs aimed at helping the bottom and middle classes, however it is quite obvious that the wealthy 1%, with pretty much all the power, disgarees.
The denial to these people of protection of the law for some eight years, the energies expended to get for themselves what other citizens take for granted, the time, travel and other resources spent on this that should have gone into more constructive development programs are shameful to contemplate, particularly in view of the fact that the lands of the Omaha and Winnebagos have been taxed all along, that these two small tribes constitute a very small fraction of the state’s total population and it can hardly be claimed that this is a case where the state can’t afford to furnish the protection of the law.
The reality of Public Law 280, clarified by Peterson, makes me think that freeing Natives from the policies that protected them due to America being "guilty" is the furthest thing from the truth. Like always, America operates in ways that fulfill its own agenda, and the uplifting of native policies was just another way to satisfy the greed of powerful people.
My father could not write his mother to explain that sending a letter to China - much less money - equaled cavorting with the en- emy
This scenario really captures the dehumanization of prejudice against the Chinese in Cold War times. In a way, American is forcing good, innocent people to choose between nationalism and their own blood. This bears striking resemblance to Jews, out of fear, ratting out their friends and families to Nazis during the Holocaust.
In most of the country, when teachers talked about race they were mostly discussing different ethnic groups that we would now lump together as white.
To this point in the article I couldn't help but recognize the hypocrisy in Americans being a role model regarding racial equality. When I read this line, which pointed out that teachers only defended european ethnic groups, everything made a little more sense considering that, for example, mexican and asian minorities were being oppressed at the same time these "teachings" were going on. It's obvious that to this day, we are still learning to be tolerant of other races.
There are also documents regarding a real property in Los Angeles, California, which Fumio Fred Takano purchased in 1938, and his legal documents and letters present his efforts to protect the property during the war with the support of his non-Japanese American friend. Included are also letters depicting his struggles to be granted the indefinite leave permit from the Gila River incarceration camp, Arizona, as a consequence of his answers to “loyalty questions, no. 27 and 28.”
Reading this made me think about how it must've been impossible for a citizen to prove their innocence. The process of "interviews" (interrogations) and background checks seemed exclusively tailored in a way that incriminates anyone for even the slightest hiccup in their records.
“I have found that any soldier anywhere will respond to his duties if treated like a human being. The same is true of the Negro Marines as of all other persons in the service,” he said.
If only the same compassion could exist among civilians in society. If we simply treated everyone as human, so many of the problems we've struggled with and still face today would eradicate and the world would be a much better place.
I understand that each military branch has different duties and that some are more dangerous than others, however I don't get why each branch, and society itself, has to look down on the others, especially when they are all "on the same team." Every military member/veteran deserves the utmost respect for their service.
I'll admit, I haven't done any research into Hoover and his past in Europe, but I couldn't help but feel intense skepticism hearing about the heroic deeds he committed as a mere citizen on the other side of the world and associating him with the failure he was here.
During World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps, in an effort to find quicker and more secure ways to send and receive code enlisted Navajos as "code talkers."
Oppressing Natives seems to have come full circle . We went from forcing their new generations to attending cultural assimilation schools so that they could forget their Native roots to promoting their language for our own advantage.
but neither young man lived long enough tocomplete the project.
I wonder what happened to them. The wording here makes it seem like they died of rather unnatural causes, and leads me to think that their art, which went against the grain of society at the time, put targets on their backs. Hopefully not, though.
The political mainstream, though, didn’t see things Guthrie’s way—making the song an even more vital expression of an America few were willing to acknowledge.
One thing that becomes more clear each module is that America and its people just have too much pride. While it certainly is a good thing to appreciate your home and where you come from, excessive pride has, time and time again, been detrimental to the welfare of the general population (especially now with Covid) and it often causes us to overlook huge problems that could've been prevented.
She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food.
Very sad to read about the living conditions of Thompson and her children. Unfortunately, these conditions remain to be reality for people across the world, maybe even worse. There is still a lot of progress to be made.
It really is amazing that as much as a century has passed and the format of advertisements and even that ads themselves are so similar to those of today, of course with the exception that newspapers aren't as prevalent now.
Prohibition was achieved largely due to the efforts of women who found purpose and a public expression of feminist solidarity in their temperance work. Murphy points out that women found opportunities in the newly dry West.
It's interesting how the ban on alcohol "largely due to the efforts of women" led to an increase in consumption by the same group and consequently an overall empowerment/liberation for them.
After all, urban kids were even less likely than rural ones to know anything about plants.
I don't know whether or not many school gardens still exist, but I assume they are mostly a thing of the past. However, I'd like to see them make a comeback. The youth these days stray further and further away from the world around them and instead become sucked into social media and technology.
The reasons why women should vote are the same as the reasons why men should vote are the same as the reasons for having a republic rather than a monarchy. It is fair and right that the people who must obey the laws should have a voice in choosing the law-makers, and that those who must pay the taxes should have a voice as to the amount of the tax, and the way in which the money shall be spent.
On paper, the reason and logic behind having a republic just makes so much sense. However, nowadays corruption in politics is so prevalent, and the integrity of a democracy (ours, at least) is so often challenged by the wealthy and powerful elite classes, not to mention the persistence of inequality.
That it did. Marcus Garvey, a leading nationalist and Pan-Africanist who advocated for African Americans to return to Africa, was so impassioned that he believed that after the Great War, “the next war will be between the Negroes and the whites unless our demands for justice are recognized… With Japan to fight with us, we can win such a war.”
Given this context, Garvey, who was introduced earlier in the module, and his philosophies make more sense and suddenly the "back to Africa" movement that he stood for seems like a pretty reasonable solution for empowering the black population that resides both in the US and around the world.
“to give, in as systematic and compact a form as possible, the history and present condition of a large group of human beings.”
I find it very admirable of du Bois to go to such great lengths in attempting such a seemingly impossible task. However, I don't think his visualizations (at least the ones shown) properly portray the magnitude of the oppression that African-Americans have been subjected to.
Kellogg prescribed “biological living” and a bland diet including his special creation, corn flakes.
I can't tell if the concept of corn flakes was used as an institutionalized form of dehumanization for marginalized people or if Kellogg simply wanted to advertise his new product with false claims.
Since the girls are potential mothers and homemakers, they will control, in a large measure, the destinies of their future families. The teacher of homemaking has a large field for in-struction. Hers is not a mere calling but an opportunity. It is she who sounds the clarion call in the campaign for better homes. It h
Ellis describes maternalism and homemaking optimistically, claiming that these girls will "control the destinies of their future families" when in reality, the goal of progressive maternalism included solidifying a young girl's future as a domestic, household servant who as assimilated to Americanism.
As the literary scholar John N. Swift notes, London’s writing is reflective of anxiety about the precarity of white racial supremacy, articulated particularly through fear of Asian sexual reproduction. Racialized subjects were seen as predatory, spreading disease, and as reproducing at an alarming rate, thereby threatening the racial status and purity of whites.
As I read this, I couldn't help but notice that these Asian races (in this case, Chinese) are described in a way similar to how people talk about rats. It is truly dehumanizing and disrespectful to acknowledge an entire population of people like this and to forget that they are real people with real lives after all. This makes me wonder why these writers care so but about white racial supremacy to begin with, with my only conclusion being that they are racist themselves.
Something I've noticed about a lot of these cartoons is that America is always portrayed as the "bigger man," which I find, on several occasions, far from the truth (when it comes to morals, at least). The sign in the back of the picture adds a nice touch to the irony that America stands for time and time again.
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I thought it was interesting and ironic that, in this case, laws were unfavorable toward an individual who was not black when, since the birth of America, blacks had been treated unfairly until this day. This section of the US Code just seems like another small "detail" that lawmakers used to deny as many non-white immigrants as possible.
The White House valorized U.S. troops, but it was the U.S. military’s own who begged to differ with the White House. The Commanding General of the U.S. Army’s report found that the American use of torture was systemic and the result of a breakdown of moral order.
The fact that military officials knew and acknowledged that their actions were unjust proves just how corrupt the US government can be after dismissing General Miles' statement and instead trying to cover up their atrocities by glorifying their actions.
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Quite literally an example of the demonization and dehumanization of non-white populations all over the globe who became subject to marginalization once under the control of the US/white man.
Tolnay and Beck don’t claim that white supremacist terrorism has been ignored by historians of the Great Migration.
It seems that white supremacist terrorism has been ignored. While I am not too politically educated/involved myself, I can safely say that based on the small doses of recent politics that I do read up on, people don't like to admit when they're wrong, and this just seems like one of those cases. While I am not accusing historians of the Great Migration to be racist, it should be noted that they are likely white, and are writing to an audience that is also likely white (simply based on population demographics).
And, in opposition to what Mitchell told women to do, he urged his male patients to write about their experiences in the West.
From a medical perspective, the oppression behind Neurasthenia becomes obvious when one realizes that the same diagnoses between two people has a different remedy depending on the victim's gender. Males are told, by medical professionals, to liberate themselves mentally by writing out their experiences. Women, on the other hand, are told (by the same medical professionals) to confine themselves to the household and their husbands.
And Indian schools prized assimilation into white culture above Native traditions.
It seems that while the US Government is initially responsible for exterminating Native culture, it took the efforts of both sides (Gov/Natives) to conduct mass cultural assimilation.
My mother was silent the rest of the way to our wigwam. Though I saw no tears in her eyes, I knew that was because I was with her. She seldom wept before me.
It is very tragic to read about a mother, who saw it necessary to stay strong in front of her child no matter the odds, so internally conflicted knowing that her and her people are powerless in reality. I couldn't even imagine how defeated she must've felt knowing that the settlers would continue to exploit her family/tribe and that there was realistically nothing she could do about it.
In this narrative, the emotional religious ritual of the Ghost Dance threatened white society, legitimizing the massacre.
An example of the recurring phenomena that people fear what they cannot understand. Here, because Americans couldn't make sense of a religious ritual foreign to them, they committed (or continued) genocide among the Native people.
How much justice do we find when the wage working class of this country enjoys NO LEGALLY RECOGNIZED RIGHTS to work for a living… and yet our politicians make it a crime of VAGRANCY when a man, through no fault of his own, is without work and without food?”
This article reminded me of how so many people are discriminated against for factors that they cannot control. It is tragic that people at this time were considered criminals for, essentially, looking poor in public.
Reading this leads you to think about the countless other projects across the country, that still exist today, that have only been made possible due to the millions of hard working individuals that, unfortunately, will never be recognized/fairly compensated for their labor, let alone even be acknowledged.
The people shall have the right to freely assemble together to consult for the common good, to instruct their Representatives, and to petition the Legislature for redress of grievances.
In reference to recent events, it seems this section was repeatedly violated by the government attempting to suppress peaceful protesters urging for racial equality.
Little Crow’s words proved to be true. In August of 1862, four young Dakota men murdered five white settlers.
The Homestead Act had negative effects on the relations between the US and Native nations.
Western homesteading was attractive because the overwhelming majority of Blacks could not own land in the South
Homesteading diversified the population of land owners in America.
It is estimated that up to 12 percent of homesteaders in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota, and Utah wearer single women (single, widowed, or divorced). Widows of Union soldiers could deduct their husband’s time served from residency requirements.
Not only did the Homestead Act encourage and therefore increase population in the West, but it also made owning land more accessible/realistic for women.
United States’s recovery from slavery didn’t happen overnight.
One could argue that the United States still hasn't recovered from slavery considering racism is still alive and well. Obviously it isn't as prevalent and extreme as it once was, but recent events in these past few months have been extremely eye opening for our society and have served as a reminder that we still have a lot of work to do when it comes to civil rights and equality for all parties.
Ku Klux Klan
Terror groups such as the KKK acted as direct resistance toward the civil progression of Blacks and therefore contributed to the end of reconstruction.
In conjunction with the Civil Rights Act, Congress developed the Fourteenth Amendment. The House approved the Amendment on June 13, 1866. The Amendment begins: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
Major change as a result of Reconstruction
Johnson held deep-rooted racist views. He did not believe that African Americans had any role to play in Reconstruction.
Black freedom and citizenship continued to give rise to controversy among federal officials.