Week 6.

Well done - again! The posts and the discussions were very relevant; perhaps reminders (!) of Alasdair's lecture on Monday - worthwhile just checking through his lecture on the LEN!! There was plenty of important backgound on the notions of an inclusive or exclusive American society.
The reality of a modern, multi-cultural America - a challenge to the earlier dominance of WASP ideology from the 18th. and 19th. centuries - questions whether America is becoming fragmented by minority issues. What unites a nation when there are so many counter cultures and pressure groups? - from witches to Quakers....etc.
The cartoon that I posted "Where the blame lies" was published in 1891; can you recognise the characters, their ethnicity and the political debate of that time? What is the message of the cartoon? Why was it important then? And, does it have any relevance to the present?
Good luck with the essays
John.