Discovering the Real America: Toward a More Perfect UnionDiscovering the Real America examines the often overlooked history of white privilege, racism and discrimination in the United States. The text explains how the media have played a big part in maintaining the status quo. The book offers solutions to overcoming the obstacles of bigotry so that people can finally discover that the richness in the real America is in the long-overlooked diversity of this nation's multiethnic, multiracial, multicultural, multinational, multitalented people. |
Contents
| 31 | |
Jim Crow Esq | 74 |
Effects of Oppression | 117 |
Removing the Whitewash | 155 |
Continuing the Indoctrination | 191 |
The Worm in the Apple Pie of America | 235 |
Discovering the Real America | 296 |
With A Civil Rights Haunting | 556 |
Epilogue | 562 |
Works Cited | 569 |
The Invisible Knapsack | 580 |
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