"McGraw-Hill Education Create."

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Includes bibliographical references.

UNIT 1. American Identity and Immigration. Issue: Do We Need a Common Identity? --
Yes. Nation or notion? / Patrick J. Buchanan --
No. What does it mean to be an 'American'? / Michael Walzer --
Issue: Are Multiculturalism and Assimilation Inevitable Components of the Emerging American Identity? --
Yes. The melting pot and the color line / Stephen Steinberg --
No. How the multicultural ideology captured America / Lawrence Auster --
Issue: Does Immigration Contribute to a Better America? --
Yes. The case for immigration : the secret to economic vibrancy / Philippe Legrain --
No. Immigration : dissolving the people / Peter Brimelow --
Issue: Do Recent Immigration Trends Challenge Existing Ideas of America's White Identity? --
Yes. Racial redistricting : expanding the boundaries of whiteness / Charles A. Gallagher --
No. What's white, anyway? / Ellis Cose --
UNIT 2. Rethinking the Color Line. Issue: Is the Obama Presidency Moving America Toward a Post-Racial Society? --
Yes. Obama, Cosby, King, and the mountaintop / Alvin Poussaint --
No. Black by choice / Melissa V. Harris-Perry --
Issue: Is the Claim of White Skin Privilege a Myth? --
Yes. White benefits, middle-class privilege / Paul Kivel --
No. The absurdity (and consistency) of white denial : what kind of card is race? / Tim Wise --
Issue: Is the Emphasis on a Color-Blind Society an Answer to Racism? --
Yes. Don't box me in / Ward Connerly --
No. Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva --
Issue: Is Racial Profiling Defensible Public Policy? --
Yes. Better unsafe than (occasionally) sorry? / Scott Johnson --
No. Restoring a national consensus : the need to end racial profiling in America / Wade J. Henderson and Karen McGill Lawson --
UNIT 3. Race Still Matters. Issue: Is Racism a Permanent Feature of American Society? --
Yes. The end of racism and other fables / Linda Greenhouse --
No. Postracialism' : do we want it? / Russell Nieli --
Issue: Is Criticism of President Obama Motivated by Racism? --
Yes. It is all still about race : Obama hatred, the South and the truth about GOP wins / Paul Rosenberg --
No. Reminder : not all Republican opposition to Obama is racist / Peter Beinart --
Issue: Are Native American Mascots Racist Symbols? --
Yes. The fight over the Redskins trademark and other racialized symbols / Sonia K. Katyal --
No. Holy war on the football field : religion and the Florida State University Indian mascot controversy / Arthur J. Remillard --
UNIT 4. The Supreme Court. Issue: Is Affirmative Action an Effective Way to Reverse Racial Inequality? --
Yes. White America's toxic ignorance : Abigail Fisher, Antonin Scalia and the real privilege that goes unspoken / Chauncey DeVega --
No. The painful truth about affirmative action / Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr. --
Issue: Is Stand Your Ground Legislation Race Neutral? --
Yes. Racial bias and 'stand your ground' laws : what the data show / Patrik Jonsson --
No. Protecting what's white : a new look at stand your ground laws / Sabrina Strings --
Issue: Should Children of Undocumented Immigrants Have a Birthright to U.S. Citizenship? --
Yes. Birthright citizenship sets America apart / Eric Foner --
No. An argument to be made about immigrant babies and citizenship / George F. Will --
Issue: Is There a Need for a Permanent Voting Rights Act? --
Yes. The more things change… / Linda Greenhouse --
No. Redistricting, race, and the Voting Rights Act / Abigail Thernstrom --
UNIT 5. Geography of Race. Issue: Is Environmental Racism a Reality? --
Yes. Environmental justice : an interview with Robert Bullard / Errol Schweizer --
No. The 'environmental racism' hoax / David Friedman --
Issue: Is the Mass Incarceration of Blacks and Latinos the New Jim Crow? --
Yes. Racism and mass incarceration in the US heartland : historical roots of the new Jim Crow / James Kilgore --
No. Racial Critiques of mass incarceration : beyond the new Jim Crow / James Forman, Jr. --
Issue: Is Gentrification Another Form of Segregation? --
Yes. On Spike Lee & hyper-gentrification / Jeremiah Moss --
No. Is gentrification all bad? / Justin Davidson --
Issue: Is Black Lives Matter an Effective Civil Rights Organization? --
Yes. The Ferguson protests worked / Julia Craven, Ryan J. Reilly, and Mariah Stewart --
No. I was a civil rights activist in the 1960s. But it's hard for me to get behind Black Lives Matter / Barbara Reynolds.