Class, Culture, Representation

Week 2 Day 1 Discussion Question 5

February 18, 2017 by Holly Allen | 0 comments

While some Americans embraced an ethnically and racially inclusive labor radicalism during the Great Depression, others blamed Mexican immigrants for stealing jobs from unemployed white men.  Read and comment on the following short articles.   How are the anti-immigrant policies proposed reminiscent of the present day?

Alien_Registration_Urged_NYT_1931

Immigration_Ban_Urged_WaPo_1930

 

Author: Holly Allen

I am an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Program at Middlebury College. I teach courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. cultural history, gender studies, disability, and consumer culture.

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