In this course, we will explore the struggles and triumph "inbetween peoples" after Reconstruction and before WWII.
I was utterly perplexed by the supposed ‘census math’ Mae M. Ngai explicated in The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924. In many historical cases, we are able to see how people in the past legitimized their imprudent actions, even though we know today that these [...]
When Racism was Respectible: Franz Boas on the “Instability of Human Types” <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5069>
Urban Experience in Chicago: Geography <http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/geography/geography.htm>
A selection from the Dillingham Commission report on immigration.
The Roediger article gave me a gigantic amount of material to consider in conjunction with last class’s discussion of boundaries and line drawing, especially in relation to societal nomenclature. It’s simultaneously amazing and appalling to understand why discussion of this topic is necessary in the first place- none of the supposedly hard drawn social boundaries [...]
Try last week’s pile of links…..