Back to Top Timelines Have students create historical timelines showing important events in the histories of traditionally underrepresented groups. Timelines can be created on long rolls of paper or with software such as TimeLiner . Research can be done using encyclopedias, history books, and the Internet. Young People Pearl Fuyo Gaskins. Henry Holt and Company, 1999.
Society tries to define race, even if genetics can t.
But even society has a hard time finding the right niche to put racially-mixed people into. The author interviewed eighty mixed-race teens about how they re treated by both halves of their heritage, and how they ve shaped their own identity by either embracing society s view of who they are, or by trying to define themselves. Oxford University Press, 1996. From the days of the earliest European arrivals on our continent to the present day, prejudice and intolerance have played an ugly part in the lives of many of our country s citizens. This book takes a close look at more than a dozen examples of prejudice.