
On Crazy We Built a Nation (Seeing White, Part 4)
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Jefferson's Anglo-Saxon People
The notion of the anglo saxon people is more popular in america than anywhere else. Nell painter says jefferson's notions about his saxon forbears were romanticized and just cockamany. ibram kendy writes a rich chronicle of anti racist ideas and the people who tried to spread them, from colonial times to the present day. The first anti racist tract that can be found in colonial America was published in 16 88 by menanite immigrants from germany and holland.
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