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10-15 Immigrant groups:
1 black and white portrait- Name, caption, profession- display of
barriers and discrimination faced by group
German (Dwight Eisenhower), - Discrimination- liberty cabbage and
anti- World War one material
Irish (JFK), - No Irish Need Apply Poster- Know Nothing Party poster,
stereotypical pics of the Irish as drunk anti-Irish riots
Italian (Frank Sinatra), -dago/wop- slurs, news coverage of Sacco and
Vanzetti, New Orleans lynching of 1892
Polish (Kazimierz Pulaski or Tadeusz Kosciuszko,) Polish jokes related to antiPolish sentiment
Mexican (Caesar Chavez and Fernando Valenzuela)- Operation Wetback
under Eisenhower, Zoot Suit Riots- visuals from that
, Jewish (Jon Stewart),- cartoon of Jewish physical features, Charles
Coughlin broadcasts,
Chinese (Maya Lin and Michelle Kwan) , - Anti- Chinese riots in the
West in 1870s and 1880s, Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (copy of
legislation?) and use of Chinaman around this period, Image of
Vincent Chen
Japanese (Daniel Inouye and George Takei)- Immigration Act of 1924
and Internment Camps during World War Two use of term jap
, Indian (M Night Shyamalan), - lots of criticisms of stereotypical or
one-dimensional portrayals of Indians in the entertainment worldvideo clip or image of this instance- hate crime group called the
Dotbusters in New Jersey
West Indian (Marcus Garvey), - this is really weak- possibly because the
countries are so small- search terms brining up anti-American
sentiment in the Caribbean instead
Nigerian (Bennet Omalu)- again same as above- maybe because
Nigerians are so few with this new wave immigration recent-