1. Describe the emergence of a consumer economy, its influence on American culture and identity, and the methods in which it was received and critiqued in the period spanning from the Gilded Age through the 1920s.
2. Discuss the period of demographic change in the United States since 1965 . How has a more diverse and heterogeneous American population emerged in this period? How has this change sparked debate and backlashes? And how does the experience of the Zeitoun family before and during Hurricane Katrina demonstrate both the expansion and limits of the American community in the contemporary period?
