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For students to undertake a meaningful study of multicultural and diversity issues in American society, they require certain basic historical information and the ability to think critically about competing historical claims and perspectives. In the course of this article, the author discusses how to teach a brief version of U.S. history by focusing on some of the key legal documents that have defined the status of women and people of color in this country. Combining attention to this history with a brief account of the history of immigration provides an effective way to reduce a large body of material to manageable size. The author suggests some pedagogical devices that can help students think critically about issues of power and privilege. In addition, she recommends some films that can help to make history come alive.

The construction of difference is central to racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. This paper examines the similar and dissimilar ways in which race and gender have been constructed in the United States and analyzes the consequences of these differences in construction for the development of social policy and the growth and nature of movements for social change.

The Social Construction of Difference: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality -- Understanding Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, and Class Privilege -- Complicating Questions of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration -- Discrimination in Everday Life -- The Economics of Race, Class, and Gender -- Many Voices, Many Lives: Issues of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Everyday Life -- How It Happened: Race and Gender Issues in U.S. Law -- Maintaining Race, Class, and Gender Hierarchies: Reproducing "Reality" -- Social Change: Revisioning the Future and Making a Difference

Entwicklung und Diskussion von Modellen einer sozialistischen Gesellschaft in den USA etwa 20 Jahre nach Etablierung des Sozialismus, unterteilt in einzelne Lebensbereiche. (BIOst)