| Preface For Instructors |
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| Introduction: Thinking Critically, Challenging Cultural Myths |
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| 1 Harmony At Home |
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The Myth Of The Model Family |
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"For Weeks I Had Drunk Kool-Aid And Watched Morning Reruns Of Father Knows Best, Whose Family Was So Uncomplicated In Its Routine That I Very Much Wanted To Imitate It. The First Step Was To Get My Brother And Sister To Wear Shoes At Dinner." |
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What We Really Miss About The 1950s |
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"What Most People Really Feel Nostalgic About ...Is The Belief That The 1950s Provided A More Family-Friendly Economic And Social Environment, An Easier Climate In Which To Keep Kids On The Straight And Narrow, And Above All, A Greater Feeling Of Hope For A Family's Long-Term Future, Especially For Its Young." |
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"Francine Say She Gonna Send This Quilt To Washington Like Folks Doing From All 'Cross The Country, So Many Good People Gone. Babies, Mothers, Fathers, And Boys Like Our Junie...." |
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The Color Of Family Ties: Race, Class, Gender, And Extended Family Involvement |
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"Marriage Actually Diminishes Ties To Kin." |
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Visual Portfolio: Reading Images Of American Families |
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From To The End Of June: The Intimate Life Of American Foster Care |
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61 | (16) |
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"Can The Older Kids, Tired And Traumatized By A Decade Or More In Foster Care, Really Jump Into Adoption With Someone They've Never Met? And Can Parents Promise To Adopt A Stranger Without A Trial Run?" |
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From Marriage Markets: How Inequality Is Remaking The American Family |
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"It Is Important To See Marriage And Other Intimate Relationships As The Product Of Markets. That Is, Relationships Do Occur As A Result Of An Exchange, Just Like The Purchase Of The Latest iPhone." |
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Why Are All The Cartoon Mothers Dead? |
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"Why, When So Many Real Families Have Mothers And No Fathers, Do So Many Children's Movies Present Fathers As The Only Parents?" |
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| 2 Learning Power |
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The Myth Of Education And Empowerment |
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The Essentials Of A Good Education |
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"We Cheat Children When We Do Not Give Them The Chance To Learn More Than Basic Skills. We Cheat Them When We Evaluate Them By Standardized Tests. We Undervalue Them When We Turn Them Into Data Points." |
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114 | (9) |
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"School Has Done A Pretty Good Job Of Turning Our Children Into Addicts, But It Has Done A Spectacular Job Of Turning Our Children Into Children." |
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"I Just Wanna Be Average" |
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123 | (13) |
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"I Was Placed In The Vocational Track, A Euphemism For The Bottom Level. Neither I Nor My Parents Realized What This Meant." |
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From Social Class And The Hidden Curriculum Of Work |
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136 | (18) |
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"Public Schools In Complex Industrial Societies Like Our Own Make Available Different Types Of Educational Experience And Curriculum Knowledge To Students In Different Social Classes." |
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Visual Portfolio: Reading Images Of Education And Empowerment |
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154 | (7) |
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161 | (9) |
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"My Homemade Education Gave Me, With Every Additional Book That I Read, A Little Bit More Sensitivity To The Deafness, Dumbness, And Blindness That Was Afflicting The Black Race In America." |
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Still Separate, Still Unequal |
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170 | (18) |
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"'It Is Not Fair That Other Kids Have A Garden And New Things. But We Don't Have That...I Wish That This School Was The Most Beautiful School In The Whole [ Wide] World." |
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A Prostitute, A Servant, And A Customer-Service Representative: A Latina In Academia |
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188 | (12) |
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"...I Wish My Students Would Not Dismiss Me Because I Am Not White And Male." |
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Don't Send Your Kids To The Ivy League |
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200 | (19) |
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"Our System Of Elite Education Manufactures Young People Who Are Smart And Talented And Driven, Yes, But Also Anxious, Timid, And Lost, With Little Curiosity And A Stunted Sense Of Purpose." |
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| 3 The Wild Wired West |
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Myths Of Progress On The Tech Frontier |
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219 | (17) |
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"Soon Everyone On Earth Will Be Connected. With Five Billion More People Set To Join The Virtual World, The Boom In Digital Connectivity Will Bring Gains In Productivity, Health, Education, Quality Of Life And Myriad Other Avenues In The Physical World." |
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236 | (17) |
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"Early In My Study, A College Senior Warned Me Not To Be Fooled By 'Anyone You Interview Who Tells You That His Facebook Page Is "The Real Me." It's Like Being In A Play. You Make A Character." |
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253 | (17) |
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"Sexist Trolls, Stalkers, Mouth-Breathing Bedroom Misogynists: All Of Them Attack Women Out Of Hatred, In Part, For The Presence Of Women And Girls In Public Space" |
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270 | (13) |
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"...Maybe Tinder Will Be The App For The Never-Ending Present, For The Idea Of One's Life Not As Culminating In A Happy Ending But A Long Series Of Encounters, Sexual Or Otherwise." |
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Visual Portfolio: Reading Images Of Wired Culture |
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The Loneliness Of The Interconnected |
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289 | (14) |
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"Ironically, All This Interconnection Is Isolating Us. We Are All Becoming Solipsists, Trapped In Worlds Of Our Own Creation." |
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Inequality: Can Social Media Resolve Social Divisions? |
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"The Internet Will Not Inherently Make The World More Equal, Nor Will It Automatically Usher Today's Youth Into A Tolerant World. Instead, It Lays Bare Existing And Entrenched Social Divisions." |
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George Orwell...Meet Mark Zuckerberg |
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"Everything You Post On A Social Network Or Other Web Site Is Being Digested, Analyzed, And Monetized. In Essence, A Second Self - A Virtual Interpretation Of You - Is Being Created." |
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"What If There Was An Alternative To Prevent These Types Of Shootings Without Eradicating Guns? What If Predictive Policing...Were To Intercept Killers Before They Struck?" |
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| 4 Money And Success |
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The Myth Of Individual Opportunity |
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"'I Could Just Feel That Stink And Shame Of Being Broke Lifting Off Me, And It Felt Beautiful. The Sad Shit Is That You Never Really Shake It All The Way Off, No Matter How Much Money You Get.'"-Jay Z. |
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"I Had Gone Into This Venture In The Spirit Of Science, To Test A Mathematical Proposition, But Somewhere Along The Line, In The Tunnel Vision Imposed By Long Shifts And Relentless Concentration, It Became A Test Of Myself, And Clearly I Have Failed." |
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"From Cradle To Grave, Class Position Has A Significant Impact On Our Well-Being." |
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"Those At The Top Get Giant Rewards No Matter How Badly They Screw Up While The Rest Of Us Get Screwed No Matter How Hard We Work." |
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Visual Portfolio: Reading Images Of Individual Opportunity |
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From A Tangle Of Pathology To A Race-Fair America |
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415 | (9) |
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"What Explains The Marked And Persistent Racial Gaps In Employment And Wealth? Is Discrimination Genuinely Of Only Marginal Importance In America Today?" |
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Framing Class, Vicarious Living, And Conspicuous Consumption |
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"The Poor Do Not Fare Well On Television Entertainment Shows, Where Writers Typically Represent Them With One-Dimensional, Bedraggled Characters Standing On A Street Corner Holding Cardboard Signs That Read 'Need Money For Food." |
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Slavery In The Land Of The Free |
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"We Do Know That Slaves In America Are Found-or Rather Not Found-in Nearly All Fifty States, Working As Commercial Sex Slaves, Fruit Pickers, Construction Workers, Gardeners, And Domestics." |
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| 5 True Women And Real Men |
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"Try To Walk Like A Lady And Not Like The Slut You Are So Bent On Becoming." |
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Becoming Members Of Society: Learning The Social Meanings Of Gender |
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"It Seems Most Likely That Gender Roles Are The Result Of Systematic Power Imbalances Based On Gender Discrimination." |
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Quandaries Of Representation |
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"Real Muslim And Arab Women Are Extraordinarily Diverse...Like Other Human Beings, They Are Fraught With Ambiguity, Contradiction, And Inconsistency." |
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"Two Ways A Woman Can Get Hurt": Advertising And Violence |
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"Ads Don't Directly Cause Violence, Of Course. But The Violent Images Contribute To The State Of Terror ...A Climate In Which There Is Widespread And Increasing Violence." |
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Visual Portfolio: Reading Images Of Gender |
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515 | (7) |
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522 | (11) |
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"Violence Doesn't Have A Race, A Class, A Religion, Or A Nationality, But It Does Have A Gender." |
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From Fly-Girls To Bitches And Hos |
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"The Seemingly Impenetrable Wall Of Sexism In Rap Music Is Really The Complex Mask African Americans Often Wear Both To Hide And Express The Pain." |
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"Bros Before Hos": The Guy Code |
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"Masculinity Is A Constant Test-always Up For Grabs, Always Needing To Be Proved. And The Testing Starts Early." |
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Sisterhood Is Complicated |
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"Where ...Should Wellesley Draw A Line, If A Line Should Even Be Drawn? At Trans Men? At Transmasculine Students? What About Students Who Are Simply Questioning Their Gender?" |
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| 6 Created Equal |
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The Myth Of The Melting Pot |
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572 | (27) |
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"An America That Asks What It Owes Its Most Vulnerable Citizens Is Improved And Humane. An America That Looks Away Is Ignoring Not Just The Sins Of The Past But The Sins Of The Present And The Certain Sins Of The Future." |
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Theories And Constructs Of Race |
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"While Race Itself Is A Fiction, The Consequences Of Racism Are A Historical And Contemporary Fact Of American Life." |
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"I Waved To Them But They Didn't Wave Back. I Pretended They Hadn't Noticed Me And Waved Again. They Stared At Me. They Knew What I Had Done." |
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Loot Or Find: Fact Or Frame? |
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"Frames Are Not Static. Epic Events Like Katrina Push Up Against And Can Temporarily Displace Them. All Those People. All That Suffering. This Can't Be America." |
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Visual Portfolio: Reading Images Of The Melting Pot |
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645 | (6) |
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"Americans Did Seem To Me At Times Like A Different Species, One That Had Evolved Over Generations Into Supreme Behemoths." |
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From Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life |
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"To Claim That Indian Cultures Can Continue Without Indian Languages Only Hastens Our End...Because If The Culture Dies, We Will Have Lost The Chance Not Only To Live On Our Own Terms (Something For Which Our Ancestors Fought Long And Hard) But Also To Live In Our Own Terms." |
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How Immigrants Become "Other" |
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666 | (17) |
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"Unauthorized Immigrants Live In A Parallel Universe. Their Lives Are Shaped By Forces And Habits That Are Unimaginable To Many American Citizens." |
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| Index Of Authors And Titles |
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