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While technology and culture only grew a little, racist tendencies focused in the south were still present, as well as discrimination against African Americans. Gender roles and conformity was also ever present in the United States.

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Americans in the 1950s were significantly living in an era of social complacency and intellectual darkness. This can be seen through  the roles of Women and African Americans in society and through the developing culture of the time.

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During the 1950's television became a new phenomenon in our culture . This is one quite popular TV show at the time called "Father knows best".
This reflects the roles of women in society at the time and how men were viewed as the superior individual in family settings.

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The presence of McCarthyism  in society 

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The presence of McCarthyism  in society 

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McCarthyism was a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations and investigations. During this time, American politicians had an arrogant smugness about their way of life: as if they were better than everybody else. This upity behavior lead to little political progress, and social complacency.

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Women were expected to run a household, care for children, and have a male escorting them, their a father, brother, or husband. Although the female power movement was still going on, little was done during this time. As evidenced by this picture, a "good woman" respected and abides by her husband. This represents the social complacency of some women and their male oppressors.

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The Beat Generation; a different perspective

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The Beat Generation; a different perspective

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The beat generation is an example of a movement that defied the social archetypes present and it was a rejection of normal or traditional american ideologies of the time. They did this through the arts and literature. Here are two examples of the beat generation movement and of things at the time that moved to end social complacency and intellectual darkness.

This poem shows how literature was challenging the social norms of the time.

Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,

dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,

angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night

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The racism present in society at the time. 

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The racism present in society at the time. 

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Racist was preventable in the southern states, with little protesting becoming effective due to the complacency of the Americans. As evidenced by this sign, only white people were wanted in certain communities. This lack of integration and intellectual darkness leas people to truly believe that white people were intellectually superior to other races.

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Ginsberg, Allen. ‘Howl.’ Collected Poems 1947-1980. Harper Row, 1984.

“Magazines in the 1950s.” Synonym, classroom.synonym.com/magazines-in-the-1950s-12083270.html.

“Popular Culture and Mass Media in the 1950s.” Khan Academy, www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-history/period-8/apush-1950s-america/a/popular-culture-and-mass-media-cnx.

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http://www.unc.edu/~iamdan/31fall97/31webprojects/michelle/assign1.html
https://shelterforce.org/2017/07/26/just-as-i-suspected-paying-rent-is-racist/
https://goodmenproject.com/families/father-knows-best-btgr/