{"id":519,"date":"2017-08-26T09:09:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/?p=519"},"modified":"2017-08-26T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T15:23:06","slug":"ben-wallis-presents-at-truscholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/2017\/08\/26\/ben-wallis-presents-at-truscholars\/","title":{"rendered":"History majors present at TruScholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/ben-at-truscholars1-e1503756232906.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-520\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/ben-at-truscholars1-e1503756232906-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/ben-at-truscholars1-e1503756232906-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/ben-at-truscholars1-e1503756232906-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Senior History and Political Science double major <strong>Ben Wallis<\/strong> presented his summer TruScholars research <strong>&#8220;The Status of Marxism in the Black Panther Party&#8221;<\/strong> at the Summer Research Symposium on August 26, 2017. Founded in 1966 during a period of racial upheaval, war, and widespread disillusionment with the United States government, the Black Panther Party articulated a political program that broke with the liberal-oriented civil rights movement, promoting instead Black nationalism and anticapitalism. Wallis explored how the writings of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, and Malcolm X were of particular importance in shaping their ideology. He argues that the Panthers can be understood as one of the most important Marxist-inspired movements in United States history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_0545.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-526\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_0545-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_0545-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_0545-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/IMG_0545-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>Travis Rolstead<\/strong> presented his paper &#8220;<strong>Backward and Diseased: American Perceptions of Arabs and Muslims in the Era of the First Arab-Israeli War<\/strong>.&#8221; Rolstead examined the extent and nature of coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict in American national and regional newspapers during the late 1940s. He found that media coverage heavily favored the Jewish-Israeli cause. Articles favorable to the Israeli cause outnumbered those favoring the Palestinian Arab one. Similarly, the media regularly conflated the terms Arab and Muslim, ignoring the presence of non-Muslim Arabs, and generally portrayed Arabs and Muslims in negative and stereotypical terms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/ben-at-truscholars4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-522\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/ben-at-truscholars4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/ben-at-truscholars4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/ben-at-truscholars4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/08\/ben-at-truscholars4-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior History and Political Science double major Ben Wallis presented his summer TruScholars research &#8220;The Status of Marxism in the Black Panther Party&#8221; at the Summer Research Symposium on August 26, 2017. Founded in 1966 during a period of racial upheaval, war, and widespread disillusionment with the United States government, the Black Panther Party articulated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.truman.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}