race
Who will tell the people?
This article, from Harper's Magazine (June 2000), explores America's ongoing search for a national inclusive origin story.
Obama as Witch Doctor
http://contexts.org/socimages/2008/05/16/icelandic-obamahillary-ad-obama-as-savage-cannibal/
Could be combined with The Recession's Racial Divide to explore racial rhetoric. Could be paired with similarly othering imagery from 19C American discourse. Excerpts from Melville (Typee, Omoo).
The Recession’s Racial Divide
THE NEW YORK TIMES
September 13, 2009
OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS
The Recession’s Racial Divide
By BARBARA EHRENREICH and DEDRICK MUHAMMAD
