Cara’s Blog

The pattern of hatred and discrimination as described in our readings never surprised me but it certainly does continue to bother me. Through history there has always been a targeted group. African Americans seemed to always be a target. Severo and Millford have made very conscience efforts to dedicate large portions of their text to their portrayal. Wages of War described the oppression of Italian immigrants as stronger than other ethnic oppression during this time period. Although my Grand father was very young at the time of the Great War, he has told me about some of the challenges he faced as an Italian Immigrant in America.

I found it interesting to read about the Bonus March from a different perspective. I found Keene’s text to be informative, but a bit tedious. This text went more in-depth about the fear of communism. The government certainly had reason to be concerned with large groups of former military men congregating in the nation’s capital but I didn’t see it as a legitimate threat of communism. Perhaps if the government was more willing to work with their veterans some conflicts could have been resolved.