War on Poverty The Underclass Nixon’s Silent Majority Run DMC Arthur Agee The Vietnam Syndrome Ronald Reagan John Rambo of Rambo: First Blood Part 11 Crisis in Masculinity Welfare Reform Personal Responsibility Alex in Fatal Attraction Feminist backlash The Absent Father The Latino Threat Samuel P. Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations The American Melting Pot Leo Chavez’s discussion of the “alien-citizen” 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act Re-conquest Quebec Model of Separatism Arizona law SB 1070 Sue in Gran Torino
Possible Pairs include the following:
1.) Assimilation Narrative and Thao of Gran Torino
2.) William Gates of Hoop Dreams and sports as work 3.) The dozens and the construction of the ghetto by social scientists 4.) The Moynihan Report and the Culture of Poverty 5.) Rambo and the Vietnam Syndrome 6.) Thelma in Thelma and Louise Cynthia Enloe’s concept of “repriviled masculinity” at the end of the Cold War 7.) Thelma in Thelma and Louise and militarism as discussed by Cynthia Enloe 8.) Crisis of Masculinity and Fight Club