Why Was there Mass Hysteria following WW2

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of society in the United States, the racial prejudices towards African Americans have been the most persistent and vile. This has uniquely shaped African American culture in the United States. These in depth studies depict many problems in society and display the racial biases rooted in the United States against African Americans.
Powdermaker was often hailed for her monograph Hollywood The Dream Factory, but her works as an anthropologist were often overlooked because of the ulterior focuses of many anthropologists during this time period. Powdermaker’s decision to study race relations was met with resistance from other anthropologists at Yale, but she was insistent upon going to Mississippi to study race relations. It was unprecedented in this time period for somebody to go down to the deep American south and use ethnographic measures to study the racially divided society. However, her drive was rooted in the desire to better understand the community, but also the working ...

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in defining because it negated the argument that African Americans were biologically inferior.
It was assumed by many that after this argument was negated that there was not high interest for anthropologists in the study of African-American culture in the United States, however; this proved to be quite the opposite. There was also the deduction that to recognize cultural differences between blacks and whites was to cite race or biological reasons as a factor in the development of cultures. By deduction of these inferences, the elements of African American life that separated themselves from white culture were those that had been caused by the history of racial discrimination while ...

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