Racial and Ethnic Politics in the US

Syllabus

Presentation Pairs and Assigment Explanation

Midterm Review Sheet

Can We All Get Along?

Did We Melt?

Minorities, Race and Ethnicity Defined

Citizenship and Immigration to the US

American Identity and Values

Religion in the US

Catholics and Jews:  Challenging or Assuming WASP hegemony?

Theories of Minority Participation and Power in US Politics

Two-Tiered Pluralism
 

Interracial America:  Should Racial and Ethnic Differences Be Emphasized?

Interracial America:  Racial Pride

Reparations for Slavery:  Public Opinion Polling Data

Reparations for Slavery

Summary of Arguments for and against Reparations

The Experts on Racial Categorization

Thought Questions about Racial Categorization

Interracial America:  Affirmative Action in College Admission

Gratz v. Bollinger

Grutter v. Bollinger

Interracial America:  Affirmative Action in Theory and Practice

Interracial America:  Interracial Marriage and the Mixed Race Movement
 
 
 

Native Americans

Native American Lands, Mining, Nuclear Waste and the US Government

Winona LaDuke

OutKast's Shame

Outkast Cartoon

OutKast Coverage in Mainstream Media

Miss Indian World Rebukes OutKast

Andrew Brother Elk's Letter to the Recording Academy

Solutions to America's "Race Problem:"  Integration and Separatism

African Americans:  Slavery and Reconstruction

Frederick Douglas

Hasan, Chapter 1, Islam in Early America

Islam

Nation of Islam

Hasan on Nation of Islam

African Americans:  Reconstruction and Segregation

Brown v. Board of Education

Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King, Jr.

African Americans:  Malcolm X

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
 

Latinos

Immigration History

Immigration Readings in Interracial America

Huntington On Hispanic's Failed Assimilation

Stereotypes

Asian Americans

Asian American Political Behavior

Wu:  Yellow

Hasan:  Muslim Americans and New World Islam

Hasan:  Islam and Women

Arab Americans

 Multicultural Education

Final Exam Review Sheet