HISTORY 197 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: American Civil War, Boston Conservatory, Rainy Mountain
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Inferior races: native american people and previously enslaved black people. One really important school: hampton institute (founded in virginia in 1868) # of native american wars going on at that time. > native american children taken as war captives, sent to florida in detention center, then become hampton. Zitkala-sa attends > experiences trauma > learns of devil/fear > also traumatized because she goes back and forth between yankton to hampton to yankton to. Boston conservatory to yankton > makes her feel homeless. Way to rainy mountain = written to respond to the kind of homelessness that zitkala-sa describes. Poor irish farmers coming in response to potato famine. Jew as the original other (christianity in opposition to judaism) Relation of how jews were treated/where placed and how people of color were in us > ghettos. Why matter that we can find way to compare how jewish people lived in europe to how certain people of color live in the us today.
