Latest Posts | By Martha Patterson
7 years ago
The Newest New Nativism
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In September of 1895, Booker T. Washington delivered his famous Atlanta Compromise speech heralding self-reliance, industrial education, and social segregation, and the black press immediately hailed him as the first …
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10 years ago
Feminine Monstrosity in the 2016 Presidential Campaign
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In 1897, the popular humor magazine Life featured the William Walker cartoon “The Inauguration of the Future,” in which a portly, spectacled, middle-aged mannish woman delivers her presidential acceptance speech. On the …
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