‘The good, the bad and the ugly’

from YEARBOOKS, page 1

Poulson said he found examples of racist caricatures and language in the yearbooks of all of the Virginia college yearbooks he examined. The research started for him as a project for his Sociological Inquiry (SOCI 300) class.

“It started as a student project about ongoing events,” Poulson said, like Northam’s blackface scandal. “I think everyone in that class was shocked at the content we found.”

Poulson said he looked for things such as white students in blackface, groups named for former confederate officials and glorification of the antebellum South and its