U.S. History: Primary Sources: Social Issues

Profiles seven men and women of Arab and Muslim descent living in Brooklyn, exploring the cliches and stereotypes they must contend with on a daily basis and the experiences they have had since September 11, 2001.

Examines the increased mainstreaming of Muslim-baiting rhetoric and explicitly racist legislation, police surveillance, witch-trials and discriminatory policies towards Muslims in North America and abroad.

The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.

Based on the true story of Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, who successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.

New York magazine writer Ariel Levy argues that, if male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, female chauvinist pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women -- and of themselves.

Th uprising that gave birth to a new liberation movement. This history explores the decades of discrimination and abuse that gay people endured in earlier eras, the liberation movement of the 60's and 70's, and the continuing fight forequal rights and recognition.

A documentary study of Hollywood's depiction of homosexual characters throughout its history.

The gay civil rights movement in the United States began when police raided a gay bar in Greenwich Village in New York City in June 1969.

Explores the social and economic conditions that provoked the Chinese Exclusion Acts, which helped shape the Chinese immigrant experience.