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- To
understand how racism is built into U.S. society through
the social construction of reality, institutional racism,
and the maintenance of economic inequalities.
- To understand the
link between race and social class -- poverty and wealth.
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improve our ability to think critically and creatively about
how the lives of individual African Americans are affected
by institutionalized racism, usually by denying them equal
opportunity; and how the lives of Euro- Americans are also
affected by institutionalized racism, usually by giving
them more opportunities than they would otherwise receive.
- To
become skilled in assessing and applying theories by analyzing
films, current events, and personal observations.
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become better able to Identify social problems and frame
them conceptually, for example, by making a connection between
individual experience and larger patterns, and between patterns
in society and explanations of cause and effect.
- To
learn to Identify and help to break down ethnocentrism.
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