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5 pages in length. Ann Banks' "First Person America" and John Ford's "Stagecoach" individually represent a changing class-consciousness related to modifying economic and social conditions of the 1930s. Indeed, it can readily be argued that imaginative texts do not directly document such experiences of the 1930s, but rather they indirectly represent conflicts, tensions, changing values and the ever shifting conditions of the particular setting. No additional sources cited.
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and social conditions of the 1930s. Indeed, it can readily be argued that imaginative texts do not directly document such experiences of the 1930s, but rather they indirectly represent
conflicts, tensions, changing values and the ever shifting conditions of the particular setting. Banks First Person America is instrumental in depicting the changes that occurred throughout the many phases of
World War II and the Great Depression. Her myriad accounts of ordinary citizens whose lives were significantly impacted allow the reader to gain substantial insight to not only the
social and economic changes that were occurring at the time, but also the cultural and political reconstruction, as well. Included in this vast array of personal expos?s is that
of a North Carolina patent-medicine pitchman, a retired Oregon prospector, a Bahamian midwife from Florida, recent immigrants to New York, a Key West smuggler and Chicago jazz musicians, all of
who contribute pertinent information that deals with "the informants family, education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations" (Banks PG).
This eclectic collection of stories and narratives gives forth the distinct social and economic climate of the period so as to associate the reader with the reality
of such changes that occurred during the 1930s. A number of the First Person America interviews focus upon the sharp class consciousness of various racial concerns, including the following
from musician Jim Barber: "You aint got nothing and I sho aint got nothing. Whats a poor colored cat and a poor white cat gonna do together? . .
. . Hell, that skin aint no more good to you than mine is to me. You caint marry one a Du Ponts daughters, and I know I damn
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