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On Crazy We Built a Nation (Seeing White, Part 4)

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Emerson's 'Emerson'

Emerson saw anglo saxons as intelligent and freedom loving, but also beautiful. Nell painter traces a parade of elide americans who trumpeted a romanticized anglo saxon identity. Eugenics and its downfall, the acceptance of the irish and slavs and italians and jews into main stream hiteness the civil rights movements. We'll get to some of that later in the series.

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