4. Money and success -- The myth of individual opportunity -- Sam Walton, Jay Z / George Packer -- Serving in Florida / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Class in America, 2012 / Gregory Mantsios -- (From) Beyond outrage / Robert B. Reich -- Visual portfolio : reading images of individual opportunity -- (From) A tangle of pathology to a race-fair America / Alan Aja [and others] -- Framing class, vicarious living, and conspicuous consumption / Diana Kendall -- Slavery in the land of the free / Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter -- 5. True women and real men -- Myths of gender -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Becoming members of society : learning the social meanings of gender / Aaron H. Devor -- Quandaries of representation / Mona El-Ghobashy -- "Two ways a woman can get hurt" : advertising and violence / Jean Kilbourne -- Visual portfolio : reading images of gender -- The longest war / Rebecca Solnit -- (From) Fly-girls to bitches and hos / Joan Morgan -- "Bros before hos" : the guy code / Michale Kimmel -- Sisterhood is complicated / Ruth Padawer -- 6. Created equal -- The myth of the melting pot -- The case for reparations / Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Theories and constructs of race / Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe -- Gentrification / Sherman Alexie -- Loot or find : fact or frame? / Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado -- Visual portfolio : reading images of the melting pot -- Land of the giants / Alex Tizon -- (From) Rez life : an Indian's journey through reservation life / David Treuer -- HOw immigrants become "other" / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and Carola Suárez-Orozco.
Introduction : thinking critically, challenging cultural myths -- 1. Harmony at home -- The myth of the model family -- Looking for work / Gary Soto -- What we really miss about the 1950s / Stephanie Coontz -- Aunt Ida pieces a quilt / Melvin Dixon -- The color of family ties : race, gender, and extended family involvement / Naomi Gerstel -- Visual portfolio : reading images of American families -- (From) To the end of June : the intimate life of American foster care / Cris Beam -- (From) Marriage markets : how inequality is remaking the American family / June Carbone and Naomi Cahn -- Why are all the cartoon mothers dead? / Sarah boxer -- 2. Learning power -- The myth of education and empowerment -- The essentials of a good education / Diane Ravitch -- Against school / John Taylor Gatto -- "I just wanna be average" / Mike Rose -- (From) Social class and the hidden curriculum of work / Jean Anyon -- Visual portfolio : reading images of education and empowerment -- Learning to read / Malcolm X -- Still separate, still unequal / Jonathan Kozol -- A prostitute, a servant, and a customer-service representative : a Latina in academia / Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo -- Don't s send your kids to the Ivy League / William Derisiewicz -- 3. The wild wired West -- Myths of progress on the tech frontier -- Our future selves / Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen -- Growing up tethered / Sherry Turkle -- Cybersexism / Laurie Penny -- Love me tinder / Emily Witt -- Visual portfolio : reading images of wired culture -- The loneliness of the interconnected / Charles Seife -- Inequality : can social media resolve social divisions? / Danah Boyd -- George Orwell ... meet Mark Zuckerberg / Lori Andrews -- Precognitive police / Henrick Karoliszyn.