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A 5 page paper exploring the way that history has sometimes been misrepresented in regard to the atrocities of racism and class discrimination. This paper relies on Pablo Mitchell’s “Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and conquest in Modernizing New Mexico” and Kevin Starr’s “Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California” to get a clearer view of these problems. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: AM2_PPracism1890to1929.rtf
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This was particularly true for the three decades spanning 1890 to 1921. This was a time when racial diversity in this nation was increasing rapidly, a time when people
were definitively separated not only on the basis of their race but also on the basis of their socioeconomic class. Interestingly, however, thanks to revisionist history we seldom get
to see the real face of racism and discrimination as it existed in their earlier time (Loewen, 2007). Our history books after all are primarily written from a white
Eurocentric perspective. Fortunately, as a society we are now beginning to recognize the shortcomings in this approach to history. Several books are now beginning to emerge that attempt
to look deeper than the history books in describing this time in our history. Pablo Mitchells "Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and conquest in Modernizing New Mexico" and Kevin Starrs
"Endangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California" are two particularly notable examples of a more balanced view of American history, a view that pulls no punches even when it
comes to the most deplorable aspects of that history. The problems that our nation was dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination
actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this country by the Europeans who invaded the homelands of the Native Americans. With the technological
revolution that we experienced in the late 1890s, however, people of all colors and classes began to flock into heavily concentrated areas. The increased contact that they had with
one another coupled with the difficult times in which they were living to produce an environment characterized by heightened incidents of racism and other forms of discrimination.
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