1. Looking for a Master Plan
Ramon Saldivar
Stanford University

2. Class Struggle within White Agrarian Society
Jeffersonian Homesteading Aristocrats vs. Working Class Peasants
Class Epiphanies: Absalom, Ch. 7, p. 188,
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3. The Meeting of Race and Class
Class Hierarchies, Absalom, p. 183
Property and Identity: “a coveted rifle,” Absalom, p. 185
“The severe shape of his intact innocence,” Absalom p. 192
Looking for a Master Plan

4. American Identity-Construction
The Boy-Symbol at the door, Absalom, p. 210
A “design” for mastery, Absalom p. 212
Patriarchy, Slavery, and Misogyny
Looking for a Master Plan