Racist, Classist and Ethnocentric Divisions in Society

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Racist, Classist and Ethnocentric Divisions in Society
The themes of race, class, and ethnicity appear in all different types of literature throughout the twentieth and twenty first centuries. These issues also arise in most people’s everyday lives. Using three chapters from Janet Giltrow’s Academic Reading: Reading and Writing in the Disciplines I will examine how several diverse groups of people, from different historical eras, who live in dissimilar settings all come up against similar challenges of racism, ethnocentrism, and classism in their everyday lives. The groups that will be discussed are poor whites and poor African-American people in the United States during the Great Depression, Northcoast Indians in Canada, and modern-day...

.....do not tear society apart.
Works Cited
Crosby, Marcia. “Construction of the Imaginary Indian.” Academic Reading: Reading and Writing in the Disciplines. Ed. Janet Giltrow. Toronto: Broadview Press Ltd, 2002. 484-490.
Cunningham, Charles. “To Watch the Faces of the Poor: Life Magazine and the Mythology of Rural Poverty in the Great Depression.” Academic Reading: Reading and Writing in the Disciplines. Ed. Janet Giltrow. Toronto: Broadview Press Ltd, 2002. 193-212.
Verkuyten, Maykel, de Jong, Wiebe & Masson, Kees. “Similarities in Anti-Racist and Racist Discourse: Dutch Local Residents Talking about Ethnic Minorities.” Academic Reading: Reading and Writing in the Disciplines. Ed. Janet Giltrow. Toronto: Broadview Press Ltd, 2002. 431-448.