In-Between Peoples

American Studies 205

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In this course, we will explore the struggles and triumph "inbetween peoples" after Reconstruction and before WWII.

Scopes Political Cartoon

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I really like the way this cartoon inverts civility and allows the “animal” group to comment on the “civilized” humans trying to separate themselves from it with turned up noses, just as we saw with Ida B. Wells.

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