In-Between Peoples

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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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Historical Thinking Matters asks us to consider how the Scopes trial was about more than just creationism and evolution.  I think the fact that, in the multiple times I have encountered this topic in my academic career, I have never once been given the straight-forwards historical details about the case and have rather been asked [...]

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It is quite difficult to do this exercise while consciously excluding the influence of the Smoot and Scopes books.  With the added perspective of these texts, I am beginning to form a single, more unified vision of what brings our reading together, but, for me personally, these most recent selections provide the central tenet, whereas [...]

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Don’t forget that your posting this week, should, at least in part, critique the Scopes Investigation from Historical Thinking Matters.  You should create a login and complete the investigation (examine ALL of the sources and resources, answer the questions, and the essay).  Then, consider the module in light of your reading.
Note: You’ll need the latest [...]

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Go to Edit -> Find -> Mormon, and a cartoon entitled “Religious Freedom Is Not Guaranteed” by Thomas Nast featuring two reptiles crawling over the U.S. Senate Dome should appear.  I think the irony pointed out by the excerpt below it in the fact that Mormonism is a distinctly American strain of religious, and therefore [...]

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As a fairly secular person at a Jesuit University (my upbringing was devoid of any organized religious practice), it was actually rather validating to academically engage myself in a debate about “religion” in which people were actually talking about lifestyle choices and system confinement.  Flake makes this very clear when she states that “America’s Mormon [...]

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I apologize for the state of this post.  Plane delays from a long weekend away prevented me from getting to the assignment Monday night, and I work all day Tuesdays.  Below are some of the ideas I’m trying to organize/ flesh out for attempting to connect our course texts together, but they are, quite obviously, [...]

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While discussing way in which immigrants were preyed upon by medical quacks, Alan Kraut makes a the statement that “quakery stuck at newcomers’ most vulnerable point: their unfamiliarity with American language and custom.” At first I wanted to greatly contest the supposition that these were the most vulnerable points for immigrants, considering everything we have [...]

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It’s amazing to watch how priorities in medical treatment have evolved since our period of concern.  In a new country built on so many fragmented communities, the comfort associated with common ethnic backgrounds meant that more legitimate, scientific medical services could be and were easily forgone in favor of seeing someone who spoke a common [...]

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