·
Willie
Horton The Big Black Rapist in the Presidential Campaign of 1988
·
Willie Horton Ad: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/ad.archive/horton.mov
(this can take quite a long time to load, but is worth it.)
·
Culture Wars –excerpts from Who Built America
·
Jesse
Jackson before the Democratic Party Convention, 1988
·
Pat Buchanon The Election is
About Who We are (1992 Republican National Convention)
·
Democrats
Deal for Dollars , 1992
·
The
Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done Welfare Reform act of 1996
· Stockman Returneth: The odd politics of late capitalism Republicans are now the main deficit spenders
·
Thomas
Frank on market populism – the ideological push to have the market solve
everything
·
Mexican
immigration and Prop 187 the real
story, not the myth, of immigration
·
Excerpt, The Story of American Freedom
·
Intimate
Matters: Sexual politics, aids, and the backlash;
·
AIDS
segment from Intimate Matters
·
Aids and History http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/index-am.html#c22
·
Abortion
and the Politics of Motherhood by Kristin Luker
·
Immigration
History 1970s-present
·
Multiculturalism
in the workplace, 1998
·
Two
opposing perspectives on affirmative action-D’sousa and Wilkins
·
History
of Opposition to Affirmative action
·
Swollen Fortunes:
Congress Feeds the Rich (Moberg, 2000) http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Class_War/Congress_Feeds_Rich.html
·
Rich Media Poor
Democracy http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media_control_propaganda/RichMedia_PoorDemo.html
·
Excerpts from book http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/McChesney/RichMedia_PoorDemocracy.html
·
U.S. Media at the Dawn of the 21st Century by
Robert W. McChesney
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Project%20Censored/CommunicationRevol_PC.html
·
Prison-Industrial
Complex (there are 3 parts to this
article) http://www2.theatlantic.com/issues/98dec/prisons.htm
·
The Worst Thing Clinton
Has Done—full version
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97mar/edelman/edelman.htm
·
Patrick Buchanon’s
website http://www.theamericancause.org/
·
Profile of Pat
Robertson http://members.tripod.com/~anthony_giacalone/pat_robertson.html
·
American
consumerism 1970-present - Excerpt from Juliet Schor, “The Overspent
American” (1998)
·
The
Family Crisis Reconsidered Excerpt
from Stephanie Coontz, the Way we never were, a brilliant reconsideration of
why the American family is blamed for the roots of modern crises, and an
alternative explanation that will make you think hard about your place in
politics
·
LA
Before the Riots – the way that disinvestments caused the problems of LA
· The LA
"Riots" as a Multi-ethnic rebellion
·
Update on LAPD: Law and
Disorder http://past.thenation.com/cgi-bin/framizer.cgi?url=http://past.thenation.com/issue/000410/0410hayden.shtml
· Statement
to Congressional inquiry into alleged Central Intelligence Agency involvement
in the south central Los Angeles crack cocaine drug trade http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/pktstmny.htm
· Jacquelyn
Jones, American Others
· Explaining Ruby Ridge see this also for
hard-hitting analysis of the farm crisis of the 1990s
·
WalMart Warriors: How
Walmart really got to the top, helped to destroy old downtowns, and how it has
assisted urban sprawl http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020304&s=hightower
·
Suburban
sprawl what has happened to create sprawl, and why?
·
Metropolis Unbound http://www.prospect.org/print-friendly/print/V8/35/geddes-r.html
·
Fascinating alternatives to suburban
sprawl, with models explained—compare Toronto (Northern Lights Section, 1/3
down) to Los Angeles development
·
Solving Sprawl http:// www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/report99/
o
http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/50statesurvey/illinois.asp
·
Property
rights vs. community betterment
·
Urban
poverty theory comes full circle
the poor in the 1990s
·
For
Teenagers, Fast Food is a Snack, Not a Job
·
School
Shootings and White Denial
More on Women in the Workforce and family issues
·
Poverty
and the generation gap in early 1990s