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Minorities in America Sample Clips -- Themes
Native Americans
Why is the
popular concept of Native Americans as a perfect utopian
society
all but destroyed by European settlers, a myth?
African-Americans: The Slave
Trade
Why do
Europeans turn away from Native Americans and instead
toward
Africans as the needed slave labor force to exploit the
wealth of the Americas?
African-Americans: Slavery in
America
What are
the forms of resistance, impact and leverage
available
to slaves to help alleviate some of the worst aspects
of slavery?
African-Americans: Post-Slavery Era
Why, after
Reconstruction ends, do blacks in the South find
themselves
in a situation significantly worse than slavery?
African-Americans: Civil Rights
Period
Why is the
landmark civil rights legislation started by President
Johnson
cut short, and what is the logic that social uprisings
are seen not during times of hopelessness but instead when
there is a
spark of hope?
Women in America: Colonial
Period Through the Civil War
Beyond
moral issues, why do the women behind the temperance
movement
deserve to be treated with much respect?
Women in America: Early
Industrial Era Through Women's Suffrage
What is
the contrast between the role of Italian immigrant women and
Jewish
immigrant women in the early Industrial Era?
Women in America: Women's Rights
in the Modern Era
In what
way can the women's liberation movement also be seen as
a men's
liberation movement?
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