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The American Expansionist and Imperialist =THE AMERICAN MELTING POT=

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=Mixtures of races cultures and religion but also the clash=



http://chnm.gmu.edu/exploring/19thcentury/alienmenace/assignment.php =**RACIAL CLASH**=

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**Little Rock, Arkansas**
http://americanhistory.si.edu/Brown/history/6-legacy/freedom-struggle-1.html

 THE BLUEST EYE- Toni Morrison
"It was their contempt for their own blackness that gave the first insult its teeth. They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorant, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery one of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollow of their minds--cooed--and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path." (page 65)

"We were lesser. Nicer, brighter, but still lesser. Dolls we could destroy, but we could not destroy the honey voices of parents and aunts, the obedience in the eyes of our peers, the slippery light in the eyes of our teachers when they encountered the Maureen Peals of the world. What was the secret? What did we lack? Why was it important? And so what? Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness." (page74)

=**CLASH OF RELIGION**=

Muslims are Less Fit to Lead

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/us/politics/30mccain.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

 THE SCARLETT LETTER


MATTESON, Thompkins Harrison The Scarlet Letter Signed by "T. H. Matteson" and Dated "1860" Oil on Canvas Large 41 x 352 Inches (Image) Original Gilt Sully-style Frame Exhibited in the National Academy of Design, 1860 The only painting of The Scarlet Letter accomplished during Nathaniel Hawthorne's lifetime. Painted with Hawthorne's advice on how the characters should look. The most important painting to demonstrate the interrelationship of art and literature in the American Renaissance.

http://www.chs.helena.k12.mt.us/faculty/hhillZ/thescarletletter.html

Reflection The American Melting Pot

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