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"Colored Rule in a Reconstructed (?) State" (1874)
How do racial stereotypes in the media create and reinforce “in” groups and “out” groups in a society?
Subject
- History
Language
English — USUpdated
![Cartoon of members of the South Caroline Legislature in argument in the House, with Columbia rebuking them.](/sites/default/files/styles/scale_480/public/2022-07/1874_ColoredRuleinaReconstructed%28%3F%29State%281874%29_FH140919_0.jpg?itok=fEZgXfry)
Credit:
Wood engraving by Thomas Nast (1874), Library of Congress
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