<div dir="ltr">I wonder how far back this film set civil rights reforms! The country had to wait for Bull Connor to see the true villains (as opposed to BOAN's black predators). (For those who don't know, there is a scene in BOAN where a black rapist threatens a white woman, who saves her purity by leaping from a cliff.)<div><br></div><div>Clarke</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Camille K. Lewis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:queenlewis@gmail.com" target="_blank">queenlewis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Page 60 of this google books of Wilson's 1910 _A History of the American People_:<br><br><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=L4QUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Woodrow+Wilson+a+history+of+the+american+people&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjN5uDy8MvQAhXIJiYKHW6gAskQ6AEIGzAA#v=snippet&q=%22Southern%20country%22&f=false" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/<wbr>books?id=L4QUAAAAYAAJ&<wbr>printsec=frontcover&dq=<wbr>Woodrow+Wilson+a+history+of+<wbr>the+american+people&hl=en&sa=<wbr>X&ved=<wbr>0ahUKEwjN5uDy8MvQAhXIJiYKHW6gA<wbr>skQ6AEIGzAA#v=snippet&q=%<wbr>22Southern%20country%22&f=<wbr>false</a><br><div><br></div><div>was cited in Griffith's film, _A Birth of a Nation_.</div><div><br></div><div>When Wilson watched the film at the White House, he did respond with "It is like writing history with lightning, and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."<br></div><div><br></div><div>We can conclude that everybody was a white supremacist/nativist back then, but Wilson was definitely of the "unreconstructed Southerner" type. </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>C</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-6897600392217003594gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><br>*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*<span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">~*~*~*~<wbr>*</span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">~*~*~*~*</span><br>Camille K. Lewis<br><a href="http://www.drslewis.org/camille/" target="_blank">http://www.drslewis.org/<wbr>camille/</a></div><div>Check out my digital archive at <a href="http://wutbju.org" target="_blank">wutbju.org</a>!<br>*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*<span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">~*~*~*~<wbr>*</span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">~*~*~*~*</span></div></div></div></div>
<br></span><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Clarke Rountree <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rountrj@uah.edu" target="_blank">rountrj@uah.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I recall his admiration of Birth of a Nation--something about it striking like lightning. I didn't know about the hyphenated Americans comment.<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Clarke</div></div><div class="m_-6897600392217003594HOEnZb"><div class="m_-6897600392217003594h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Camille K. Lewis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:queenlewis@gmail.com" target="_blank">queenlewis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Woodrow Wilson's statement about "hypenated Americans" is considered nativist. However, he made the statement in 1919 while in office:<br><br><a href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/wilsonleagueofnations.htm" target="_blank">http://www.americanrhetoric.co<wbr>m/speeches/wilsonleagueofnatio<wbr>ns.htm</a><br><div><br></div><div>Woodrow Wilson packed his cabinet in his second term with segregationists, and he was a big fan of _Birth of a Nation_.</div><div><br></div><div>I think the case can be made that he was a nativist. His Treasury Secretary and later son-in-law, William McAdoo, ran for the Democratic nomination in 1924, but he failed due to the overwhelming Klan support.</div><div><br></div><div>C</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-6897600392217003594m_3952952717929046584m_-8991045446410996906gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><br>*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*<span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">~*~*~*~<wbr>*</span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">~*~*~*~*</span><span class="m_-6897600392217003594m_3952952717929046584HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>Camille K. Lewis<br><a href="http://www.drslewis.org/camille/" target="_blank">http://www.drslewis.org/camill<wbr>e/</a></font></span></div><span class="m_-6897600392217003594m_3952952717929046584HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Check out my digital archive at <a href="http://wutbju.org" target="_blank">wutbju.org</a>!<br>*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*<span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">~*~*~*~<wbr>*</span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">~*~*~*~*</span></div></font></span></div></div></div><div><div class="m_-6897600392217003594m_3952952717929046584h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Clarke Rountree <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rountrj@uah.edu" target="_blank">rountrj@uah.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Good example. Any party nomination winners?<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="m_-6897600392217003594m_3952952717929046584m_-8991045446410996906h5"><div><br>On Nov 27, 2016, at 7:18 PM, John Whalen-Bridge <<a href="mailto:jwb@nus.edu.sg" target="_blank">jwb@nus.edu.sg</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div>Pat Buchanan, though he didn't become the nominee, ran. He was recently called one of America's most influential "public intellectuals" by David Brooks, who considers Buchanan the architect behind Trump's position.<br>
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<div>I'm working on a paper on Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric and I have a question: When was the last time a presidential candidate for a major American political party ran on a nativist platform? I assume during the 1890-1920 period of anti-European sentiment
or the late-19th century anti-Chinese policies there were some major party candidates who used anti-immigrant rhetoric. Or did McCarthyism support anti-immigrant sentiment, or the opposite (to help those behind the Iron Curtain)?</div>
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<div>In my lifetime I don't recall such a nativist candidate. (Wallace in 1972 was racist, but he wasn't representing a major party.)</div>
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