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TEXT(s): Aguirre. Adalberto, Jr. and Jonathan Turner. American Ethnicity:The Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination. New York: Mc Graw Hill, Inc. 1995. Pedraza, Silvia and Rueben G. Rumbaut. Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in America. New York:Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1996. Required Reading Schedule A=Aguirre & Turner/ P=Pedraza & Rumbaut/R=Reserve Segment I Theoretical Considerations & Discussion 9/18 Merton "Discrimination and The American Creed" (R) Gordon "Assimilation in America: Theory & Reality" (R) Wilson "The Declining Significance of Race" (R) Segment II Immigration & Settlement 9/25 Chapter 1 Ethnicity and Ethnic Relation (A) Pedraza "Origins and destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in American History" (P) 10/2 Chapter 2 Explaining Ethnic Relations (A) Chapter 3 The Anglo Saxon Core and Ethnic Antagonism (A) 10/7 Rumbaut "Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in Contemporary American History" (P) 10/9 Historical Description 1 Educational Development and Economic Advancement of White Ethnics and African Americans in East coast cities during the la te 19th and early 20th century. Segment III Urbanism & Race/Ethnic Relations 10/9 Bender and Reimers "New York as an Immigrant City". (P) Chapter 7 Asian Americans (A) 10/11 Bozorgmed i et.al, "Los Angeles: Explosive D iversity". (P) Chapter 6 Latino/Hispanic Americans (A) 10/16 Grenier and Perez "Miam i Spice: The Ethn ic Cauld ron Sim mers". (P) 10/21 Manning "Washington, D.C.: Th e Changing Social Landscape of Internationa l Capital City" (P) 10/23 Exam I October 23, 1996 Segment IV Social & Political Mobilization 10/25 Chapter 4 African Americans (A) Morris and Herring "The Civil Rights Movement: A Social and Political Watershed" (P) 10/30 Chapter 5 Native Americans (A) Cornell "American Indians and Political Protest". (P) 11/6 Chapter 8 White Ethnic Americans (A) Gold and Phillips "Mobility and Continuity Among Eastern European Jew s" (P) 11/13 Historical Description 2 Social Protests and Political Mobilization by Asian and Latino Americans in West Coast Cities in the mid-to-late 20th century. 11/20 Exam II November 20, 1996 11/25 Position Pa pers Immigration Policies & Affirmative Action Legislation 15
"THE NET" Electronic Scholarship: used in this class involves the accessing of one of several internet search engines to locate on-line scholarship in the area of race\ethnicity for historica l and contemp orary issu es. This technology will be especially helpful in locating materials (since 1960) to construct your position papers on immigration policies and affirmative action legislation . More importantly, you will be ab le to access current information on these issues through the electronic newsstand (New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times). Additionally, a class newsgroup (Wright.Soc.Soc442) has been established for student-to-student and student-to-professor conversation about class readings and assignments. A mand atory atte ndance com puter w orkshop will be held Septe mber 20, 1996. The internet search engines are: Altavista, American Studies, Excite, Clearinghouse, Inktomi, Yahoo, and Galaxy. To access these web sites type the following : Lynx http://Libnet.Wright.Edu and tab to virtual reference and follow the directions found within the page. Writing Assignment Format All writing assignments should be type (double-spaced) with one inch margins and numbered in the lower right corner of the page. Papers will be graded on appearance, grammar, spelling, organizational format, and content. Each paper should be stapled (top left corner) with a cover page. The cover page must have the title of your paper (centered). Your name, course title and num ber, professor's name and quarter should be placed at bottom right of cover page (single spaced). Late writing assignments will receive a letter grade reduction for each day they are late. Handwritten assignments will receive an F (papers will not be returned, so make copies). INTERNET ASSIGNMENTS Historical Description I: is to be completed by October 9, 1996 should be a brief, but through discussion of the education development and economic advancement of White Ethnics and African Americans during Reconstruction and the early 20th century. Historical Description II: due November 13, 1996 should discuss social protests and political mobilization of Asian and Latino Americans in West coast cities during the mid-to late 20th century. A Position Paper: requires that you take the position of an "Economic Liberal" or "Economic Conservative" and develop a 7-10 position paper arguing for or against affirmative action legislaton and current immig ration po licies. Affirmative Action Position Paper Within your paper include a discussion on: (1) the Presidential Administration which developed and implemented Executive Order 11246; (2) what an Executive Order is; (3) the purpose of the order and which groups it spoke to and under what conditions; (4) the year the order took effect; (5) the pro's and con's of the order; (6) the California Civil Rights Initiative and 1996 presidential candidates positions on affirmative action. If you have taken the Economic Conservative position, provide solu tions to this p olicy. Economic Liberals should provide solutions on how to strengthen the current affirmative action policy. Immigration Policies Position Paper Within your paper include a d iscussion on: (1) the p urpose of im migration policies; (2) a brief history on immigration policies in the United States: (3) the pro's and con's of such policies; (4) Proposition 187; and (5) the 1996 p residential candidates position U.S. imm igration policies. If you ha ve taken the Economic Conservative Position, provide solutions to this policy. Economic Liberals should provide solutions on how to strengthen the current affirmative action po Association of Black Sociologist (ABS) Listserver: also contains texts of cu rrent articles of importance which address issues of race/ethnicity, from an African American perspective. Students may subscribe to the list by a ccessing e-mail and then typing: listserver@cmuvm.csv.ccmich.edu. In the body of the letter, type your request Sub Abslst-L. You will probably receive a message back from them welcoming 16
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