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Industrial Revolution
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Plessy V Ferguson
Supreme Court ruled that racially segregated public facilities were legal, so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal. -
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Jazz Age
A post-WWI movement in the 1920s from which jazz music and dance emerged. The rise of jazz coincided with the rise of radio broadcast and recording technology, which spawned the popular “potter palm” shows that included big-band jazz performances.
Female singers such as Bessie Smith emerged during this period of postwar equality and open sexuality, paving the way for future female artists. -
Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
American animated musical film that established Walt Disney as one of the world’s most innovative and creative movie makers. It began the Disney empire as well as portrayed and promoted certain stereotypes for women. -
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese airplanes made a surprise attack on the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. They destroyed many ships and killed many soldiers. It was this attack that forced the United States to enter World War II.
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The Manhattan Project
U.S. government research project (1942–45) that produced the first atomic bombs. Many of the American scientists involved in this project were former refugees from fascist regimes in Europe including Albert Einstein. -
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Japanese Internment Camps
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
Japanese internment camps were established during WWII by President Franklin Roosevelt through Executive Order 9066. From 1942-1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. In reaction to Pearl Harbor and the ensuing war, the Japanese internment camps are now considered one of the most atrocious violations of American civil rights in the 20th century. -
Trinity Bomb Test
The efforts of the Manhattan Project finally came to fruition in 1945. After three years of research and experimentation, the world’s first nuclear device, the “Gadget,” was successfully detonated in the New Mexico desert. This inaugural test ushered in the nuclear era. Read below for more information about the test, its aftermath, and impacts. -
Creation of NBA
Rival Basketball Association of America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL) merge to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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The Cold War Period
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cold-war-history During World War II, the U.S. & Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, Americans were wary of Soviet communism & Joseph Stalin’s tyranny. Soviets resented Americans’ refusal to treat USSR as a part of the international community as well as their delayed entry into WWII, which resulted in the deaths of millions of Russians. After the war ended, these grievances ripened into a sense of mutual distrust. -
Brown vs Board of Education
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Vietnam War
https://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war/vietnam-war-history
The Vietnam War was a long conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its ally, the U.S. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the U.S. & the Soviet Union. Over 3 million people were killed in the Vietnam War. Opposition to the war in the U.S. divided Americans. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis
Leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. In a TV address President Kennedy notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat to national security. -
Selma to Montgomery March
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march
Part of a series of civil-rights protests in 1965 in Alabama. An effort to register black voters in the South, protesters marching route from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were confronted with deadly violence from authorities and white vigilante groups. Raised awareness of the difficulties faced by black voters, and the need for a national Voting Rights Act. -
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
Assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. A Baptist minister, King had led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s, using a combination of impassioned speeches and nonviolent protests to fight segregation. His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era. -
Woodstock Music and Art Festival
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, was the most famous of the 1960s rock festivals, held on a farm property in Bethel, New York, August 15–18, 1969. The Woodstock Music and Art Fair was organized by four inexperienced promoters who nonetheless signed a who’s who of current rock acts, including Jimi Hendrix, Sly and the Family Stone, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, and Country Joe and the Fish. -
Pratte's 5 Competing Ideologies
Assimilation: all groups, conform to the life-style, values of the dominant majority
Amalgamation: diverse groups synthesized into one new group, fusion of many nationalities and cultures into a new people
Cultural pluralism: each social group maintain its own identity
Modified pluralism: each different social group will change over time from its original nature, remains distinct from other groups.
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Creation of NWA
The violent and sexist pioneers of gangsta rap, are the most notorious group in rap history. Emerging in the late '80s, when Public Enemy had rewritten the rules of hardcore rap by proving that it could be intelligent, revolutionary, and socially aware. Instead,N.W.A. celebrated violence, hedonism, & criminal life in blunt, harsh language. Initially, the group's relentless attack appeared to be serious, vital commentary, and it even provoked the FBI to caution N.W.A's record company. -
LA Riots
4 L.A. police officers caught beating an unarmed African-American motorist are acquitted of any wrongdoing. Protestors in L.A. blocked freeway traffic, beat motorists, looted stores & set fires. Felon Rodney King led police on a high-speed chase through L.A. before surrendering. King resisted arrest and was brutally beaten by police officers. A citizen filmed police beating King & kicking him long after resistance. Caused outrage around U.S. & triggered national debate on police brutality. -
September 11 Attacks
A series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the U.S.The attacks against NYC and Washington, D.C., caused extensive death and destruction and triggered an enormous U.S. effort to combat terrorism. This affected how Americans treated people of middle eastern descent or those who they perceived to be a foreign threat. -
Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice by Ken Gelder
6 key ways subcultures can be identified through their:
-often negative relations to work
-negative or ambivalent relation to class
-movement out of the home and into non-domestic forms of belonging
-stylistic ties to excess and exaggeration;
refusal of the banalities of ordinary life and massification.
