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BBC Bitesize - GCSE History - Racial inequality between 1929 and 1945 - Revision 1

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Learn about and revise racial inequality in America 1929-1945 with BBC Bitesize GCSE History.

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The Dust Bowl was a time in the 1930s where sever dust storms hit the American and Canadian prairies and greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture.

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A secondary school revision resource for GCSE English Literature about the context of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

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Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck Biography | Of Mice and Men Book Summary & Study Guide | CliffsNotes

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Get free homework help on Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men: book summary, chapter summary and analysis, quotes, essays, and character analysis courtesy of CliffsNotes. John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is a parable about what it means to be human.

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John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California, a region that became the setting for Of Mice and Men. As a teenager, he spent his summers working as a hired hand on neighboring ranches. In 1919, he enrolled at Stanford University,  he left without having earned a degree. he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962.
Steinbeck sets Of Mice and Men against the backdrop of Depression-era America. The economic conditions of the time victimized workers like George and Lennie, whose quest for land was thwarted by cruel and powerful forces beyond their control, but whose tragedy was marked, ultimately, by steadfast compassion and love.

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Discrimination Of Mice and Men An Analysis of the Aspects of Discrimination in Of Mice and Men. Racism, Sexism, Ableism, and Ageism Crooks-racism Curley's wife-sexism Lennie-ableism Candy-ageism Lennie cannot fathom racial prejudice Crooks is used discrimination Crooks admits his loneliness which is most likely due to racism.

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Stereotypical Male and Female in the 1930's

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Gender Roles in the Old Days (Stereotypically) In the 1930's many woman were typically seen as the housewives who cooked and cleaned while the husband was at w...

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Elderly in 1930s America: Of Mice and Men Context

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Disabilities in 1930s America: Of Mice and Men Context

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Exam board content from BBC Bitesize for students in England, Northern Ireland or Wales. Choose the exam specification that matches the one you study.

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"…You go on get outta my room. I ain’t wanted in the bunk house, and you ain’t wanted in my room."

"Why ain’t you wanted?" Lennie asked.

"’Cause I’m black…"

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Candy leaned against the wall beside the broken collar while he scratched his wrist stump. "I been here a long time," he said. "An' Crooks been here a long time. This's the first time I ever been in his room."

Crooks said darkly, "Guys don't come into a colored man's room very much."

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A short biography of John Steinbeck who gave voice to working class America. In 1939, he reported on migrant farm workers for the San Francisco Chronicle,

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Thesis : In the book, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck shows Crooks as an accurate representation of the harsh effects of racism in the 1930's.
Background Information on Racism in the 1930's

- Whites had a better life. They lived more luxuriously. Whites were very cruel to blacks.

- Jim Crow Laws were created

-In them, there were laws about segregation including that blacks and whites had to use separate bathrooms, restaurants, water fountains, schools, and even areas of living

-Blacks were not given equal rights

- Stigma of Inferiority: Crooks has this. It is a feeling that he has. Even though people say blacks and whites were equal, he's treated as though he is not. He keeps this in the back of his mind as his "reality check"

Jim Crow Laws in Action
Arguments
1. In the Jim Crow Laws, it says that Blacks and Whites shouldn't live in the same area. This is why Steinbeck made the character of Crooks live in the barn, separate from the other workers.

2. The other workers are very mean to Crooks because he is black. They call him names and make him feel unimportant.

3. He has a very negative mindset about his dreams because his dreams have been crushed his whole life because he is black and powerless in society.
Argument #1
Argument #2
Argument #3
Comparison
Crooks is portrayed accurately as a black man in the 1930's. Blacks weren't allowed to live in the same places as Whites were. Crooks isn't allowed to live in the bunkhouses with the other men. He is forced to live with the horses in the barn
In the 1930's, Most Whites were not very kind to Blacks. They called them names and made them feel unimportant. This is exactly how Crooks is treated in the story. Crooks is very similar to a Black man in the 1930's.
The Comparison I have made through out this whole project was Comparing Crooks to a Black man living in the 1930's. Crooks is treated the same way a black man in the 1930's would've been. I've seen that they are very similar and that Crooks is very accurately portrayed.
Conclusion
Evidence
" I ain't wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain't wanted in my room"(28).
" 'Why ain't you wanted?' Lennie asked.
"Cause I'm black" (28).
From these examples, it is clear that Crooks doesn't live in the bunkhouse, he lives in the stable because he is black and can't live with the other white men. This kind of racism also occurred in the 1930's which is why Crooks is an accurate representation of a black man living with the prejudice in the 1930s.
Evidence
Evidence
" Sure. Ya see the stable buck's a n*****" (10)

" If I say something, why it's just a n***** sayin' it." (30)

From the first quote, you can see that the other workers call him names. Not nice ones either. From the second quote, you can see that Crooks is aware that his opinions don't matter to the other workers, so it's like he's not even there. This probably hurts Crooks very much. This is how many Blacks felt in the 1930's therefore Crooks is accurately portrayed.

Crooks has a very negative mindset about his dreams because his dreams have been crushed his whole life because he is black and powerless in society. This is how many Blacks were treated during this time period. They felt weak and powerless, so they felt like even if they had a dream, the couldn't make it come true.
Crooks called, "Candy!"
"Huh?"
" 'Member what I said about hoein' and doin' odd jobs?"
"Yeah," said Candy "I remember."
"Well jus' forget it." said Crooks " I didn' mean it. Jus' foolin'. I wouldn' want to go no place like that"

From this example, Crooks dream is just to be a part of something with the other White men. Crooks withdraws from the job because he knows there is no point in try if his dream is just going to get crushed. This is how many Black people felt in the 1930's. They figured why should I dream if it will never come true. This is a good example of the stigma of inferiority, that has consintently remained in Crooks head.
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In conclusion, Crooks is accurately portrayed as a black man in the 1930's. He is treated the same way they would be treated. He has has the same characteristics and feels the same way that they would. He is forced to live seperatly, is treated badly by the other workers and has no dreams and ambitions.

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Thesis : In the book, Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck shows Crooks as an accurate representation of the harsh effects of racism in the 1930's. Background Information on Racism in the 1930's - Whites had a better life. They lived more luxuriously. Whites were very cruel to blacks.

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- Women were inferior to men in the 1930s!
- It was the stereotype, everyone believed in the same thing.

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A Black and White World

John Steinbeck's iconic 1937 novella, Of Mice and Men, captures all of the desperation, suffering, and hopelessness of Depression-era America. But this story of two itinerant farm workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, is about far more than economic struggle.

In the character of Crooks, the black ranch hand, Steinbeck illustrates the constant, polluting presence of racism in America in the 1930s. He reveals its powerful and dangerous capacity to infect how we see ourselves and others.

Crooks: An Outsider

Of Mice and Men is a novel all about loneliness. Most of the workers on the ranch where George and Lennie find themselves travel alone. To combat their isolation, they drink, gamble, and chase women. The economic collapse of the Great Depression has separated these men from their families. Many have lost their homes. All have lost a sense of belonging, a sense of place and connection.

But no one is more alone than the novel's single black character, Crooks. The reality of racial discrimination in this era is a gulf that cannot be breached. It trumps even poverty, hopelessness, and despair. It defines and separates Crooks from the other men. It turns him into a double outcast, an outsider among outsiders.

Crooks' Segregation

Whereas the white ranch hands live together in the bunkhouse, Crooks lives alone in a makeshift shed. This physical segregation reflects his own separateness from the other ranch workers and also mirrors the legal segregation so common in this era, particularly in the many Jim Crow laws in effect in the South, which impacted everything from voting laws to the segregation of schools and other public institutions.

Steinbeck's novel, however, reveals that such race-based discrimination was not limited to the South. Even in California, Crooks was considered an 'other' due to his race. It was considered inappropriate and dangerous for a black man to room with white men.

Crooks' separateness is also suggested by a story told early in the novella. Candy, an elderly ranch hand, describes to George and Lennie the last Christmas party at the ranch, when the owner gave the workers liquor and Carlson, one of the workers, attacked Crooks for sport. The abuse Crooks suffered at Carlson's hands was a source of entertainment for the men. To them, he is little more than a spectacle.

Crooks' Loneliness

Unlike most of the other workers, Crooks had been at the ranch for years. He was not simply passing through. The spinal injury which earned him his name made him unable to travel or to do the kind of physical work that the itinerant workers did.

He surrounds himself with books and mementos, creating a personal space that becomes a sort of fortress to him, something representative of who he is outside of the prejudicial world that would define him.

When Lennie and the other workers wander into his room one night, it initially feels like a violation to Crooks. He is lonely, but he fears being misunderstood and further abused; he fears the outside world will infiltrate his one safe place.

Eventually, Crooks begins to enjoy a few moments of companionship. For a time as the men talk, it is as though no racial stigma separates them. He becomes simply a host entertaining guests in his home, modest though it may be.

Crooks for a moment forgets himself and his status. When Lennie and Candy talk about their plans to buy a plot of land, Crooks eventually forgets his cynicism. He stops mocking their dream and begins to fall in love with it himself. He begins to think that he, too, may hope for a brighter future than the life of loneliness he lives now.

Crooks' Fear

Crooks' excitement doesn't last long. The ranch owner's son, Curley, has recently married a woman just as much of a troublemaker as he is. Known only as 'Curley's wife', she is a failed actress desperately seeking male attention. Bored and frustrated, Curley's wife intrudes into Crooks' room when he, Lennie, and Candy are talking. The men know that Curley is jealous and that he will fire them in a heartbeat over his wife, so they try to get her to leave.

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racism in of mice and men - video & lesson transcript | study.com

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Racism in Of Mice and Men - Video & Lesson Transcript | Study.com

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John Steinbeck's iconic 1937 novella, Of Mice and Men , captures all of the desperation, suffering, and hopelessness of Depression-era America. But this story of two itinerant farm workers, George Milton and Lennie Small, is about far more than economic struggle.

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Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The crash signalled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries. It did not end in the United States until the start of American mobilization for World War II at the end of 1941. More than 13 million people lost their jobs after the banks crashed.

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- A dust storm, caused by the displacement of the grasses.
- Farmers fled Oklahoma and migrated to California.