American Cultures: Readings in Social and Cultural HistoryThis social & cultural history anthology is linked to an introductory body of theory on social and cultural methodology. It is a course text or an adjunct text for community college level investigation on how culture and society interact to form North American history. It is also a foundation for discourse on social justice, activism, and human rights. |
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Contents
PREFACE | 8 |
Intellectual Activism Social Transformation Self | 24 |
On Diversity | 40 |
The United States Congress The Bill of Rights | 55 |
Opposing Viewpoints 68 The United States Congress The Civil Rights Acts 72 Otto Kerner The National Advisory Commission on Civil | 74 |
The United States Senate COINTELPRO | 92 |
Cesar Chavez The United Farm Worker Movement | 342 |
Alma Garcia The Chicana Feminist Discourse | 359 |
Stanton S B Anthony and M J Gage | 373 |
Warren Farrell Men A Success Objects | 393 |
Ellen Goodman When A Woman Says No | 415 |
Carey McWilliams Okies in California the Migration | 429 |
Jeremy Rifkin A New Social Contract | 443 |
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