Week/Date

Topics

Packet Readings

Media

Activities

 4   Oct  19

Anglo Primacy: The Melting Pot  (the old immigration and platitudes)

# 19, 20, 21, & 22

   Various v

Myth of the Melting Pot

      Oct   24

5      

      Oct   26

Ethnicity, Race, Religion, Nationality, Gender

Dilemmas: Myths or Reality

# 14, 15, 16, 17, & 18

Clues of Category

Outlyers: Indigenous People (Leave Us Alone)

# 23 & 24

       Wounded Knee v

Wounded Knee Massacre Wounded Knee Assignment

       Oct   31

6    

       Nov   2

What is a Nation?

What is a People?

# 25, 26, & 27

       No More War v

EXAM PART I

Outlyers: Black Exceptionalism (We Shaped the Culture But Can’t Get In)

#28, 29, & 30

      Black Is, Black Ain’t v
       Afro-centric School v

Black Culture Quiz
Answers to Black Culture Quiz

       Nov   7

7  

       Nov   9

Asian Americans (Not Always Quiet Absorbtion)

# 31

Wassau v

Ordeal at Wausau

Hispanic Americans

(Changing the Rules)

# 32 & 33

   Hispanic Populations pp

    Biligualism v

EXAM PART I DUE

       Nov  14

8     

       Nov  16

Muslim/Arab Americans (Fundamental/ist Challenge)

# 34

     Islamic School v

A Test of Faiths
Answers to Test of Faiths

Contemporary Strains: New “isms” and Identity Politics

#37 & 38

(#35, 366)

Christian Fundamentalists v
   (The Pinks & the Blues v

  PRACTICE QUESTIONS

       Nov  21

9    Nov  23

Is Postculturalism Possible?  (Whiteness Studies )

#39, 40, & 41

Richard Rodriguez v

EXAM PART II

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

       Nov  28

10 Nov  30

Group Presentations

Group Presentations

11 Dec    6

FINAL EXAM IS OFFICIALLY SCHEDULED FOR 3:30 – 5:20
EXAM PART II & COMPLETED PORTFOLIOS WILL BE DUE IN CH 217 @ 4:00 PM