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SAGE Journal Articles

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Article 1: Shae Rodriguez, N. and Blumell, L. (October 2014). What a Year! The Framing of Marriage Equality Through Media's Selected Source in 2013. Journal of Communication Inquiry 38(4). 341-359.

This article discusses how the media and United States newspapers farmed the stories regarding same-sex marriage in 2013. The authors find that the media used various to highlight same-sex marriage news stories, thus providing insight into how citizens of the U.S. are exposed to salient issues such as this.

Questions to Consider:

1. What is the equality versus morality debate and how does it apply to same-sex marriage?

2. How has same-sex marriage been framed in the media?

Learning Objective: 4.4 Explain the legacy of the civil rights movement for groups such as women, Hispanics, and members of the LGBT community

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Article 2: Taylor, C. (July 2009). Hurricane Katrina and the Myth of the Post-Civil Rights Era. Journal of Urban History 35(5). 640-655.

This article discusses the views of various scholars and activists and their notions that black America is facing a new set of problems that were not addresses by the civil rights movements generation ago. The author analyzes three interrelated uses of the post–civil rights concept and questions its utility in addressing the persistence of urban inequality and the unequal impact of Hurricane Katrina on the African American community.

Questions to Consider:

1. What are the different views on the post-civil rights era proposed by various scholars? How do these views differ from the civil rights era a generation ago?

2. How has the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina highlighted the new issues that black Americans are facing?

3. What does the author suggest the

Learning Objective(s): 4.2 Identify two obstacles in the way of civil rights for African Americans historically; 4.3 Discuss the political efforts to seek civil rights for African Americans from the nineteenth century to the present day

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Article 3: Orfiled, G. (August/September 2014). Tenth Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research: A New Civil Rights Agenda for American Education. Educational Researcher 43(6). 273-292.

This article discusses the impact of the civil rights polices of the 1960s, the political and legal movements that reversed them, and the need for a new civil rights strategy. The increasing immigration and democracy transformation is prompts the authors to outline essential components of a new civil rights policy.

Questions to Consider:

1. In the section, “What we Actually Need?,” what challenges does the author face in creating a vision appropriate to the society of our time?

2.  What demographic changes have increased the need for new civil rights policy?

3. Do you believe that the author’s reforms are possible?

Learning Objective: 4.1 Define civil rights

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CQ Researcher

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Karaim, R. (March 2011). Gay Rights. CQ Global Researcher. 5(5). 107-132.

This article focuses on gay rights at a global scale. Beginning with the Netherlands in 2001, gay marriage metamorphosed almost overnight from a largely ridiculed notion to a legal reality in at least 10 countries. However, homosexual acts remain illegal in most of Africa and the Muslim world, with severe penalties for anyone found guilty of the crime. In Russia and other Eastern European countries, gay and lesbian “pride parades” have sometimes met with violent responses, leading some observers to believe a backlash against rapid gay and lesbian advances may be developing in parts of the world.

Questions to Consider:

1. What is the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy?

2. Discuss the arguments made by opponents and proponents of same-sex marriage.

3. Do you believe that governments and society are more receptive to gay rights?

Learning Objective: 4.4 Explain the legacy of the civil rights movement for groups such as women, Hispanics, and members of the LGBT community