William Smith
Dr. Larissa Werhnyak
AMS 2341.001
11 December 2017
Final Examination
Section 1
General Tso: General Tso is the name of a Chinese military hero of the Qing dynasty. In the terms of this class it is associated with General Tso’s Chicken, a Chinese-American dish that is associated with a larger idea of conforming ethnic foods to American palates to remain relevant in the age of discrimination against foreign people.
Jim Crow: Jim Crow laws were segregation laws that discriminated against black people post-slavery. An article we read by Richard Wright described life under these laws and the struggle of having to deal with the dangers of segregated America as a person of color.
Kerner Commission: A commission created by LBJ in 1967…show more content… The irish and german people who were originally hated because of their non-saxon roots, were included to battle against the immigrants that were arriving post civil war. This ridiculous idea of trying to pin down what was white and what was not stems from a fear of white people to not be associated with the african slaves and other ethnicities they ruthlessly treat as lesser beings. In the modern age it is easier to recognize a person as hispanic, black, white, or asian simply by their appearance, but in early American history there was an aggressive push to further separate people as an effort to say that one group was better than the…show more content… This is important to recognize, because it sheds light on why the 21st century American culture is spread so thin, and why it requires the analysis of America prior to 2000 to understand why exactly it is the way it is. American studies at one point could have been studies of actual Native Americans, the people that were actually here before European influence. Then the mass immigration over a couple of centuries create the particular shade of culture that we are familiar with in 2017. The “Americanization” that some traditionalists hope will happen to our immigrants never really happens, and is a bit of a misnomer considering the melting pot that we actually are. We are ultimately a blend of hundreds of years of socialization, whether we admit it or
