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Strange Fruit, famously sung by Billie Holiday, powerfully condemns lynching, popular in the South following the Civil War. The chilling lyrics and intonation can incite student discussion on lynching and launch an exploration into its causes, its spectators, and its social effects, i.e. the Great Migration, the rise and fall of the KKK. -
1voteSouth Pacific, the film based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, tells a love story set over the backdrop of US military occupation in Asia at the end of WWII. The movie can be used to analyze American culture in the postwar era, especially as it pertains to US relations in Asia focusing on race.
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