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Racial issues


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to racial issues
USA
2The scourged back
3Emancipated slaves in the USA
4Aestheticism
5Real photo postcards: African Americans
6The Klu Klux Klan and race hatred in America
7A symbol of race hatred - lynchings in America
8Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Photographers
9Ernest Withers: The struggle for civil rights in the USA
10Robert Frank: The Americans - Racial issues
11Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded, Reflections in Black by Corporate America 1968-2008

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