AS AM 156 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hubert Humphrey, Voting Rights Act Of 1965, White Supremacy
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Identifying people/groups by race (formal policies of persecution, genocide, discrimination) Cold war has usa vs. ussr, usa vs. nazis. Formal neutrality by ethnicity and race within communist world. When trying to fight for democracy, intl. community/communists asks usa if they exclude/segregate and yeah they do lmao. Usa helped japan rebuild by giving them money to buy stuff from usa lol. Usa labor is problematic (no unions, conditions, etc. ) Usa is scared of communism b/c it closes off their capitalism. Usa inspired nazis dwight eisenhower knew and wanted to change it. Conservatives did fight for equality because it"s good for business and affairs. [communism] people"s republic of china and its constitution (1954) Han chauvinism = women hold up half the sky . Poc who raised their voice faced death threats. Korematsu v. usa (1944): japanese internment camps were okay in favor of domestic safety. Camps shelley v. kraemer (1948): racially restrictive covenants.