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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Silverman, Jonathan. "Success in the Margins: How African-Americans, Women, and Immigrant Jews Used Cultural Production to Negotiate Prejudice and the American Dream Between World War I and the Great Depression," American Studies Program, University of Texas at Austin, May 1998.
This dissertation explores the relationship of “marginal groups” to the mainstream in the 1920s. After undergoing significant social changes through an archetypal historical event, each group shared an effort to dispel myths and create new ones, aiming their efforts at a mythical mainstream that did not correspond with the one that mythically imprisoned them. Out of this battle, often fought overtly by marginal groups and covertly by the mainstream, emerged a different America, one weakened by an increasing gap between the ideals it promised and the reality it maintained.
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