The Wages of Whiteness

Poor white folks are not exempt from this racial politics of manifest destiny, settler colonialism. World War I comes. The 1920s come. And those men are swept up into uniforms and into factories. That crisis comes to an end at the same moment that you have a rising number of Mexican immigrants coming into the country. So there is a shift that happens in the 1920s. But it's just jails full of Charlie Chaplin looking dudes. You got it.