1. The connections : life, knowledge, and media -- Personal experience -- Reconstructing knowledge -- The process of socialization -- Social Cognitive Theory -- The social self -- Liberation Theory -- Cultural Competence Theory -- The fabric of oppression -- The cycle of socialization -- Entertainment media -- Entertainment Assessment theories -- The processes of selection -- Media literacy -- Cultural studies -- Analysis of media production and economy -- Cultural indicators analysis -- Entertainment assessment tools -- Character investigation -- Examination of themes -- 2. Gender : in pink and blue and vivid color -- Personal experience and gender -- Reconstructing knowledge and gender -- Gender and U.S. history -- The Women's MOvement and feminism -- Education : what you know and how you know it -- Gender disparities in employment, income, and occupational status -- Gender identity and self-esteem -- Gender Theory -- Consequences of socialization of men and women -- Gender and entertainment media -- Prime-time television content analysis -- Television as a tool of culture -- Prime-time television : employment and economics -- Gender ideology in entertainment media -- Film -- Gender and popular music -- The complexity of gender targeting -- Gender diversity and social power -- 3. Is the United States a classless society? -- Personal experience and class -- Reconstructing knowledge and class -- Early U.S. history -- The Twentieth Century -- The Great Depression -- Post-World War II -- Indicators of class in the United States in the mid- to late Twentieth Century -- The Twenty-First Century -- Causes of the Great Recession -- A snapshot of the consequences of the Great Recession -- High cost of being poor -- The American Dream -- From invisible to visible : class and the "Occupy" Movement -- Entertainment media and class -- Prime-time television and class -- Popular film -- A brief history of class in feature films -- Music and class -- Audience segmentation through radio and the Internet -- Musical genres -- Popular music --
4. Racing in America : fact or fiction?
Meeting at the crossroads : how our stories converge
The American racial discourse : then and now
Reconstructing knowledge and race
Theories and constructs of race
The social and psychological impact of race
The science and pseudoscience of race
Stories and counterstories : decoding the master script
Stories of race, racism, and resistance in the United States
African civilization and the European slave trade
Contemporary conditions for African Americans
Latinas;Latinos or Hispanics
Mexican Americans or Chicanos
European Americans or Whites
Becoming white in America
White privilege, internalized White Supremacy, and the benefits of being considered white in the United States
5. Stories of race in popular culture
Entertainment media and race
American Indians in entertainment media
Prime-time television and American Indians
American Indians and film
Asians and Pacific Islanders in entertainment media
Asians and Pacific Islanders and popular music
Asians and Pacific Islanders and film
Asians and Pacific Islanders and prime-time television
Latinas/Latinos in entertainment media
Latinas/Latinos and television
African Americans in entertainment media
African Americans and film
African Americans and popular music
African Americans and prime-time television
6. Sexual orientation and the fabrication of "normal"
Reconstructing knowledge and sexual orientation
Terminology and its evolution
Theories and history of sexual orientation in the United States
Sexual orientation in U.S. history
Stonewall and its aftermath
Developments in the Twenty-first Century
Religion and sexual orientation
Protestant perspectives on sexual orientation
Catholic perspectives on sexual orientation
Jewish perspectives on sexual orientation
Islamic perspectives on sexual orientation
Sexual orientation and entertainment media
The popular media industry and sexual orientation
Prime-time television and sexual orientation
Popular music and sexual orientation
Sexual orientation and film.