Week 15

Week 15

Recent America

Monday: The "Me Decade"
Wednesday: The Reagan Eighties
Friday: The New Pluralism: Race, Class and Gender in Contemporary America

DISCUSSION SECTIONS: Coming to Grips with Modern America

READINGS:

"Largest Growth in U.S. History," U.S. Census Bureau, April 2001.

"A Niche in Time: Multiracials: The bellwethers of tomorrow's markets," American Demographics Forecast, April 2001.

"Re-Segregation Under Way: U.S. Schools are More Racially Divided Than Ever," British Broadcasting Company, 19 May 2000.

U.S. Median Household Income by Race and Hispanic Origin, 1967-1999"U.S. Census Bureau

Poverty Rates, 1999"U.S. Census Bureau

Poverty Rates of People in Families by Family Type and Presence of Workers, 1999, U.S. Census Bureau

Origin

ADDITIONAL INTERNET RESOURCES:

1. Historical Statistics of the U.S.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www

****YOUR FINAL EXAM IS DUE AT 10 A.M., MONDAY, APRIL 30 IN 301 MORRILL HALL (THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT MAIN OFFICE)****

EXTRA CREDIT WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT: Sections this week will discuss modern America. The written assignment is for extra credit. Choose a news article, either from a print paper or off the web that looks at an issue related to equality or inequality in contemporary America and/or the world. Copy or print out that article and write a one page paper discussing the issues that it raises.

created: February 10, 2000
last updated: January 10, 2001