Course Syllabus

Introductions - Getting Acquainted

Your Expectations - What Do You Expect to Learn? What Do YOU Bring to THIS Class? What are YOUR Experiences of/with Ethnicity and Diversity?

Discuss Syllabus

Class Guidelines

Your Suggestions for a Positive Learning Environment?

Defining: Ethnicity and Diversity - The UVM Wheel of Diversity.

Readings: Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Groups

Chapter 1: Exploring Race and Ethnicity

Chapter 2: Prejudice

Current Event 1: In one or two paragraphs, describe a cultural event (past or present) you were a part of or just attended as a guest. This is your weekly assignment; so please make sure that you either turn it in or email it to the instructor before the class.

Sources of Conflicts

Chapter 3: Discrimination

Chapter 4: Immigration

Current Event #2 - Define ethnicity and diversity. What forms of ethnicity and diversity do you see in this class? Length of this assignment: Two or three paragraphs.

Ethic and Religious Sources of Conflict

Chapter 5: Ethnicity, Whiteness, and Religion

Unpacking Ethnicity

Current Event # 3: Anything you learned about your own ethnicity? Please, share.

Major Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States

Chapter 6: Native Americans: First Americans.

European Contacts - Australian Aboriginal People - Relations Across Boundaries: The Hopi and Navajo Peoples - Economic Impact of Casino Gambling - Religious and Spiritual Expression - The Environment.

Current Event #4: Write a paragraph: Who was the first person/group of people to get in touch with Native Americans? Do some research.

Major Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States

Chapter 7: African Americans

Relations Across Boundaries: African Americans and American Indians

France Noire or Black France

The Challenges and Accomplishments of Black Leaders

Sundown Towns, USA - Reemergence of Black Protests - The Civil Rights Movement - Olympic Athletes Who Took a Stand - The Urban Stage - The New Immigration.

Current Event #5:

1. What is the Black Lives Matter Movement? What impact (if any) does it have on our society? Who is the First President of the United States? Just the name.

2. Mid-Term Paper: Discuss Topics and Select one on the provided list. Due Week 8 by midnight.

Continued - African Americans

Chapter 8: African Americans Today

Factors to look at: Education (Black Students Acting White? What motivation?) - Overall Economic Picture (Black Middle Class and Employment) - Family Life - Housing - Criminal Justice - Healthcare - Politics - Religious Beliefs.

Current Event # 6: How do African Americans used their religious beliefs to survive the hardships of slavery?

Major Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States - Continued

Chapter 9: Latinos: Growth and Diversity.

The Latino Identity - Reconciling Two Identities - Economic Picture and Education - English Language Acquisition - Political Presence - Religion - Cuban Americans - Central and South Americans (Immigration and Current Picture) - The Salvadorian Connection (The Current Picture).

Current Event # 7: Choose any Latino social group and say anything you know about them (1-2 paragraphs).

Major Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States.

Mid-term paper due today. No late submission accepted, except in extenuating circumstances.

Chapter 10: Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans.:

Mexican American Community Emerges and Mexican Americans Today - Immigrant Mexicans and U.S.-Born Mexican Americans - Mexican Hometown Associations - Puerto Rico: The Island - Puerto Rico Cannot be Silenced - Puerto Ricans Today.

Current Event # 8; In 1 or 2 paragraphs, please describe your view on Mexican Americans and the immigration.

Continued - Major Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States

Chapter 11: Muslim and Arab Americans: Diverse Minorities.

Identifying Arab, Muslim, and Middle Eastern Americans - Who Is "Arab American"?

Relations Across Boundaries: Muslim, Arab, and Jewish Americans - Black Muslims - Immigration to the United States - Islamophobia - Contemporary Muslim Life in the United States (Family Life and Gender, Education and Politics). Any idea about Muslims in France?

Current Event # 9: Talk to a Muslim friend, classmate, schoolmate about their experience being Muslims. Write 2 paragraphs about your conversation.

Major Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States

Chapter 12: Asian Pacific Americans: An Array of Nationalities.

Diversity, Political Activity and Pan-Asian Identity of Asian Americans - Is the Asian American community a Model Minority (Looking at factors such as educational level and economic status)? - Current Picture of Indian Americans and immigration - Arranged Marriages in America - Sugar Daddies - Forced marriages - Partership/Union or marriages? - Supported marriage (parents accepting and supporting children's choice) - Filipino Americans' immigration patterns and current picture - Korean Americans' historical background and current picture - Relations Black and Korean Americans - Southeast Asian Americans (The Refugees, current picture and Case Study: A Hmong Community - Book: And The Spirit Catches You and You Fall) - Hawai'i and the People (Historical Background and the Sovereignty Movement).

Current Event: What is your best Asian dish or restaurant and why (if any): 1 paragraph.

Major Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States.

Chapter 13: Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans:

Chinese Americans' early experience (Early settlement patterns and Chinatowns today) - Contemporary Chinese Americans' family life and employment - Tiger Mothers - Japanese Americans' early years (Immigration and wartime evacuation) - Executive Order 9066 - The Camps - Contemporary Japanese Americans: What evacuation means to them, economic picture and family status - Remnants of prejudice and discrimination - Statement of Liang Decision.

Current Event # 11: What are your views on China and Covid-19? (2 paragraphs).

Continued - Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States.

Chapter 14: Jewish Americans: The Quest to Maintain Identity.

Think About the Argentina Jewish Community.

Jewish People: Race, Religion or Ethnic Group?

Immigration of Jewish to the United States and the Anti-Semitism (Past and Present) - Jewish Contemporary Position (Employment and Income, Education and Political Activity) - Religious Life (Orthodox Tradition and Daily Life of the Orthodox) - The Neighborhood as a Moral Obstacle Course (The Reform Tradition) - The Jewish Identity (Role of the Family) - Intermarriage as the Final Step to Assimilation (Role of Religion and Role of Cultural Heritage)?

Current Event # 12: Who is a TRUE Jewish? (2 paragraphs).

Final Paper Topics Shared Today in Class.

Due Date: Last Class (12/12/23 by Midnight).

Other Patterns of Dominance

Chapter 15: Women: The Oppressed Majority;

Gender Roles - Sociological Perspectives - Feminist Movement.

men Doing Women's Work (Suffrage Movement - Women's Liberation Movement - Feminism Today) - The Economic Picture (Sources of discrimination) - Global View: Gender Inequality in Japan (Sexual harassment - Feminization of poverty) - Education and Family Life across the globe (Childcare and housework - The abortion issue: Should it be legal?).

Current Event # 13: How do you describe gender inequality in your country of origin? (2 paragraphs).

Other Patterns of Dominance - Continued.

Chapter 16: Beyond the United States: The Comparative Perspective:

Mexico: The Diversity South of the Border: The Mexican Indian People and the Color Gradient - The Status of Women.

Canada: Multiculturalism Up North: The First Nations - The Quebecois - Immigration and Race.

Brazil: Not a Racial Paradise: The "Racial Democracy" Illusion in Brazil - The Brazilian Dilemma.

Israel and the Palestinians: Arab-Israeli Conflicts - The Intifada - The Search for Solution amid Violence.

Republica of South Africa: The Legacy of Colonialism and Apartheid.

Africa, It Is Ours! (The Era of Reconciliation and Moving On) - Intergroup Contact and South Africa.

Current Event # 14: To you, who is the historical figure(s) of the south African liberation struggles and success? (2 paragraphs).