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The Myth of the Model Family (Harmony at Home)? Growing Pains: Beyond One Big Happy Family? What We Really Miss About the 1950s? From Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancy2. The Myth of Education and Empowerment (Learning Power)? From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work? Higher Education: Colder by Degrees3. The Myth of Individual Opportunity (Money and Success)? From Ragged Dick; From Collin Powell: Straight to the Top? Horatio Alger; Stephen Cruz? Rewards and Opportunities: The Politics and Economics of Class in the US? Have-Mores and Have-Lesses; Streets of Gold: The Myth of the Model Minority4. Myths of Gender (True Women and Real Men)? Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meaning of Gender; Nora Quealey? Advertising and the Construction of Violent White Masculinity? Boys Will Be Boys and Girls Will Not5. The Myth of the Melting Pot (Created Equal)? From Individual to Structural Discrimination; Im Black, Youre White, Whos Innocent?? Can a New Race Surmount Old Prejudices?6.
The Myth of Freedom (Liberty and Justice for All)? New Peoples and New Societies; Essay in the Harness: The Tyranny of Freedom? The Price of Admission: Harassment and Free Speech in the Wild, Wild WestBibliography:
