Comic Book Cover

In the comic book cover that I chose there is a picture of a superhero wearing a red suit with a yellow lightning bolt on the chest the character is known as Captain Marvel. He is enormous and standing over the top of a small village of Japanese people trying to run from him and a mountain further back in the background. He has his one hand on top of the people and the other balled up into a fist ready to pound on all of the Japanese soldiers. On the cover in the text it reads, “Capt. Marvel Swats the Japs!”
Captain Marvel is a white person who is shown in what it looks like he is trying to kill all of the Japanese people on the cover in the village. This comic book cover if I had to guess was published during the time or shortly after World War II. Showing the Americans dislike towards Japanese people. The mountain in the background is probably Mount Fiji, the highest mountain in Japan.
This comic book cover relates to Chapter 10 in Takaki. That chapter deals with Hawaii and the people of Hawaii and more specifically the Japanese immigrants who came to Hawaii and the mainland from Japan. It was about how Japanese people came to America looking for a better life. They came to get better wages on jobs, and to find what they thought was the “American dream.” This cover shows how the Japanese were treated in America, they were not treated fairly and did not receive the same type of treatment that others.
I think that this cover is kind of interesting. It shows how the Japanese people were treated during the time. It shows how much hatred the Japanese had to overcome while they were being treated poorly. They came to America in search of freedoms, and better wages. And all they get is poor treatment for nothing. I think that this cover shows this.

how the jews became white

In the chapter “How Jews Became White” Brodkin’s thesis states, “Instead I want to suggest that Jewish success is s product not only of ability but also of the removal of powerful social barriers to its realization.” She is saying that the Jews had a lot to overcome to get where they are now, and that they overcame the hatred and the racism and the social constraints that were upon them. They were a hated race, but they worked hard to overcome that.
In the beginning of the chapter she starts off by telling a story of how her parents grew up expecting to be hated, and expected to be a part of daily life that was all about racism. She goes on talking about the separation between the Jews and the whites, talking about how some of the Jewish families had to live in different neighborhoods, and even in some cases they were not allowed to attend school. She then goes on a couple paragraphs later to say why all of this ended. She said that the racism with Jews ended because of World War II. She describes how the people that were once before members of society who were going to be deported, were now middle class white citizens. She says this also had to do with changing society, “It was the biggest and best affirmative action program in the history of our nation,” and what happened in this event was the poor people suddenly became educated and could get jobs.
Is there reasoning to believe that the Jews were the only ones being treated this way? Absolutely not, all of the races minus the white race were being treated unfairly like this, races such as “Racism against all southern and eastern European immigrants, as well as against Asian immigrants, not to mention African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexicans.” So, the Jews were not the only ones being treated that way, there were other races who were under unfair treatment just like they were.
This chapter was easy to read and had a lot of good information in it. I think that it is such a good chapter because it is so authentic and so true, because of her own real life experiences that she includes in the chapter.

ZInn ch. 9

In Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom, Zinn is talking about slavery and the freedom of blacks in America during the times of the 1800’s. Zinn on the first page in the first couple paragraphs speaks about how the blacks during this time were seen through society’s eyes; he talks about how the people especially the whites saw them and what they thought of them. All of these were cases of people in the south. He describes a way to end slavery by saying, “It would take either a full-scale rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a deeply entrenched system. If a rebellion, it might get out of hand, and turn its ferocity beyond slavery to the most successful system of capitalist enrichment in the world. If a war, those who made the war would organize its consequences. Hence, it was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, not John Brown. In 1859, John Brown was hanged, with federal complicity, for attempting to do by small-scale violence what Lincoln would do by large-scale violence several years later---end slavery.” This quote is about how messed up the political system was in the U.S. at this time. The entire country was against the blacks, including the court systems, and the armed forces just to name a few. The system was completely screwed up and as Zinn says the only way to end it was through violence.
The authors argument is not as much about how the system was corrupt, but about how even after all of this was said and done, the blacks still did not receive the freedom and rights that they should have. They were still treated the same. He goes on to talk about the Underground Railroad and they brave men and women who led other blacks to the north. He speaks of a couple of them such as Harriet Tubman, who led the most slaves to the north of out all the black leaders of the railroad. There were other figures who helped get rights for the blacks during there time, people like Nat Turner who was a slave who gathered around 70 of his fellow slaves and went on a “rampage” for plantation to plantation, murdering whoever tried to stop them.
One question that I have would be why did some of the white states, even after the slaves had been freed not accept blacks? Why would they still not let them have the respect they deserved? The answer is because of racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Groups of white people who hated blacks and did not believe that they should have their rights, they believed that they were superior to the blacks.
This was an interesting and informative article to read. I enjoyed reading it because it had a lot of good information, and was kept interesting and was not dull and drug out. It was a lot of previously learned information, but not as in depth as I had learned it before.