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| An Introduction to the Study of Minority Groups in the United States | |
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| Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts | |
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| Narrative Portrait: The Social Construction of Racial Identity | |
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| Developing a Racial Identity | |
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| Narrative Portrait: The Cultural Sources of Prejudice | |
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| Kaffir Boy | |
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| Readings | |
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| Prejudice, Discrimination, and Racism | |
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| Using Racial and Ethnic Concepts: The Critical Case of Very Young Children | |
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| Constructing Categories of Difference | |
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| Current Debates: Race and Sports | |
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| The Dominance of Black Athletes is Genetic | |
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| The Argument for Genetic Differences is Deeply Flawed | |
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| Debate Questions to Consider | |
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| Assimilation and Pluralism | |
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| Narrative Portrait: Assimilation, Then and Now | |
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| Choosing a Dream: Italians in Hell's Kitchen | |
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| Always Running: La Vida Loca | |
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| Readings | |
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| Divided Fates | |
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| Fifteen Years on the Bottom Rung | |
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| Opening Faces: The Politics of Cosmetic Surgery and Asian American Women | |
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| Current Debates: English Only? | |
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| English Only Will Speed the Assimilation of Immigrants | |
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| Bilingualism Should Be Encouraged | |
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| Debate Questions to Consider | |
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| The Evolution of Dominant-Minority Relations in the United States | |
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| The Development of Dominant-Minority Relations in Pre-Industrial America: The Origins of Slavery | |
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| Narrative Portrait: A Slave's Life | |
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| Life as a Slave Girl | |
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| Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb | |
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| Readings | |
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| Slavery Unwilling to Die | |
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| Jezebel and Mammy: The Mythology of Female Slavery | |
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| Current Debates: How Did Slavery Affect the Origins of African American Culture? | |
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| Slavery Created African American Culture | |
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| African American Culture Was Created by an Interplay of Elements From Africa and America | |
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| Debate Questions to Consider | |
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| Industrialization and Dominant-Minority Relations: From Slavery to Segregation and the Coming of Post-Industrial Society | |
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| Narrative Portrait: The Kitchenette | |
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| Death on the City Pavement | |
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| Readings | |
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| The Meaning of Emancipation According to Black Women | |
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| What is Affirmative Action? | |
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| Adolescent Masculinity, Homophobia, and Violence: Random School Shootings, 1982-2001 | |
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| Current Debates: Affirmative Action | |
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| Affirmative Action Casts Suspicions on Legitimate Black Achievement and Depicts African Americans as Incapable | |
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| Why We Still Need Affirmative Action | |
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| Debate Questions to Consider | |
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| Understanding Dominant -Minority Relations in the United States Today | |
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| African Americans | |
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| Narrative Portrait: The Persistence of Racism | |
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| Just Walk on By: A Black Man Ponders His Ability To Alter Public Space | |
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| The Mulatto Millennium | |
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| Readings | |
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| I Am Not a Racist But... | |
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| Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry | |
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| The Elephant in the Living Room: The Issue of Race in Close Black/White Friendships | |
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| Current Debates: Reparations | |
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| Reparations for African Americans in Historical Context | |
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| Reparations Are an Idea Whose Time Has Come | |
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| Blood Money: Why I Don't Want Reparations for Slavery | |
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| Debate Questions to Consider | |
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| Native Americans | |
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| Narrative Portrait: Native Americans' Experiences and Perspectives | |
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| Lakota Woman | |
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| Talking to the Owls and Butterflies | |
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| Readings | |
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| Growing Up Indian | |
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| From the Ground Up | |
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| Current Debates: Are Indian Sports Team Mascots Offensive? | |
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| Indian Symbols and Mascots Are Not Offensive | |
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| Mascots Are Offensive | |
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| Debate Questions to Consider | |
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| Hispanic Americans | |
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| Narrative Portrait: The Meaning of Macho | |
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| Americanization is Tough on Macho | |
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| Narrative Portrait: Gender Images of Latinas | |
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| The Island Travels With You | |
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| Readings | |
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| Mock Spanish: A Site for the Indexical Reproduction of Racism in American English | |
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| Seeing More Than Black and White: Latinos, Racsim, and the Cultural Divide | |
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| Not White or Black, but In Between: Latinos and Asian Americans Expanding the Language of Colorblind Racism | |
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| Current Debates: Is Americanization Threatened by" Hispanization"? | |
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| How to Make an American | |
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| Why We Shouldn't Worry About the "Hispanization" of the United States | |
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| Debate Questions to Consider | |
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| Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders | |
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| Narrative Portrait: The Relocation | |
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| We Were Just Japs | |
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| Readings | |
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| The Interrelationship Between Anti-Asian Violence and Asian America | |
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| South Korean Sex Slaves in the United States and Canada | |
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| Current Debates: Asian American "Success": What Are the Dimensions, Causes, and Implications for Other Minority Groups? | |
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| The Success of Japanese Americans Is Cultural | |
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| The "Success" of Chinese Americans Is Structural | |
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| The Success of Asian Americans Has Been Exaggerated in Part to Criticize Other Minority Groups | |
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| Debate Questions to Consider | |
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| New Americans: Immigration and Assimilation | |
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| Narrative Portrait: Two Stories of Immigration | |
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| Life in the Enclave | |
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| Life as a Refugee | |
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| Readings | |
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| Immigrants in American Society | |
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| Discrimination and the American Dream: The Case of Middle Eastern Americans | |
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| Globalization and Its Mal(e)contents: The Gendered Moral and Political Economy of Terrorism | |
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| Current Debates: Is Immigration Harmful or Helpful to the United States? | |
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| Immigration Is Harmful | |
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| Immigration Is Not Harmful | |
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| We Need to Reframe the Immigration Debate | |
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| Debate Questions to Consider | |
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| White Ethnic Groups | |
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| Narrative Portrait: Ethnicity, Prejudice, and the Irish Political Machine | |
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| Shadow of the Past | |
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| Readings | |
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| How Jews Became White | |
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| White Privilege and Male Privilege | |
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| Euphemized Racism: Moral qua Racial Boundaries | |
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| Current Debates: The Racial Identities of Whites and Blacks | |
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| The Need to Understand Whiteness | |
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| Symbolic and Involuntary Ethnicity | |
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| Debate Questions to Consider | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Antiracist and Feminist Solutions | |
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| The Emperor's New Clothes | |
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| The Racial Preference Licensing Act | |
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| The Redefinition and Subversion of Comparable Worth in New York State: "We Did It Our Way" | |
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| Building Connections with Antiracism and Feminism | |
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| Abolish the White Race by Any Means Necessary | |
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| Being an Ally | |
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| Commitment to Combat Racism | |
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| Tools for White Guys Who Are Working for Social Change | |
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| Discussion Questions | |