American Studies 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Black Nationalism, Frantz Fanon
12 Sep 2016
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The growth of the middle class and the suburbs emerged during this time: considered the golden age of capitalism. 1940s and 1950s: father knows best and leave it to beaver constructed the ideals of the perfect. The families in these shows were unaware of the issues that the usa was facing with the ussr during the cold war. The movement itself was the large scale refusal of african americans and their allies that the. American dream was more like the american nightmare. While not all forms of segregation were written laws, many were defacto. Banks would take advantage of them with higher rates and would refuse mortgages. Labour opportunities in the north would be denied. Americans live under the separate but equal before the law. This works to encourage racial inequality and psychological works to remind them that they are not first class citizens.
