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Race in US History

The history of race in America encompasses questions of freedom, justice, equality, and citizenship. Explore topics including the Reconstruction era, the once-influential theories of eugenics, the modern Civil Rights Movement, and current struggles over racial equity.

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Days of Waiting

Estelle Ishigo, a Caucasian women artist, was voluntarily interned with 110,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps in 1942. There, she recorded the deprivations and rigors of camp life with unusual insight.

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Imitation of Life

A struggling young actress with a six-year-old daughter sets up housekeeping with a black widow and her light-skinned eight-year-old daughter who rejects her mother by trying to pass for white.

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stack of Facing History and Ourselves resource books on a desk.

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Universe of Obligation definition on a classroom chalkboard.

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a male student uses a marker to write on a wall during a class activity.

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