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Embracing Diversity: Navigating Race, Class, and Gender in America

Explore the impacts of increasing diversity on society, media, and personal lives in the United States. Understand the importance of names and labels, theories of assimilation and pluralism, and sociopolitical positions. Discover how ideologies like Eurocentricity, patriarchy, and capitalism shape our identities. Learn to adapt, change, and promote social cohesion in a dynamic cultural landscape.

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Embracing Diversity: Navigating Race, Class, and Gender in America

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  1. “Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States” • Overview • increasing diversity in U.S. • media images of past unrealistic then, certainly now • how will increasing diversity affect your life? • Enrichment • Challenges • Practical – workplace, etc • Social cohesion • how does it affect American politics, culture, economy? • Why Study? • Understand • Adapt • Change

  2. I. OVERVIEW • Names and Labels • Are important • Reflect power • Affect self-image • Change over time and with different subgroups

  3. I. OVERVIEW • Theories • Are both models of present and visions of future • Assimilation • Amalgamation / Melting Pot • Pluralism / Multiculturalism

  4. I. OVERVIEW • Sociopolitical positions • different from book, will stress conservative, liberal, radical • They vary by: • Premises about human nature and society • Analysis of the present • Vision of the future

  5. I. OVERVIEW • “Ideological Principles” - better seen as systems • Eurocentricity • Patriarchy • Capitalism • Conservative, liberal, radical views • Operate singly, together • reinforce

  6. “IDENTITY” • Complex, “multidimensional” • Internalization vs. self-definition • “self” definition usually involves group effort

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