Friday, April 27, Final Lecture

I. The Reagan Revolution

II. The Unfinished Journey

III. Gender, Race and Class in Contentemporary America

A. The Achievements and Limitations of the Women's Movement

1. Ideology and Reality
2. Open Doors: Demographic Changes
3. Feminization of Poverty

B. Civil Rights and Racial Boundaries

1. Legal Equality
2. Advances in Education and Economics
3. Reverses in the 1980s
4. Class Divisions
5. Ghettoization
6. Cycle of Poverty

C. Immigration and American Pluralism

1. The New Immigrants
2. Blurring of Racial Distinctions
3. "The Universal Nation"

D. A Class Society

1. Growing Division between Rich and Poor
2. Post-Industrial Economy
3. Reaganism

IV. The Future

V. Norms and Attitudes

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