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Fall 09 Week Fifteen: Towards Postwar America

37. Mon 12/7 Braceros, Zoot Suit Riots, and Double-V

Reading: GML Ch 22 (818-832) “The American Dilemma” AND Bailey/Farber, “The Double V Campaign in WW2 Hawaii” [pdf]

More on the Zoot Suit Riots:
Style Warfare
PBS American Experience, Zoot Suit Riots

38. Wed 12/9 Demobilizing and the Postwar World

Reading: GML Ch 22 (815-818, 832-837) “Visions of Postwar Freedom” and “The End of the War” and preview/print & skim McEnaney, “Nightmares on Elm Street: Demobilizing in Chicago, 1945-1953” [pdf] – we will use this IN CLASS on Wednesday.

Due in class: Little Paper #6 (Oral Histories from WW2)

Exam #3 will be on 12/14 at 8:30 amStudy Guide here [pdf]

Posted in Fall 2009, Week by Week.