This course examines the nature of conflict around these issues and challenges students to look at their own socialization and its impact on their private and public selves. The attention directed towards these issues is intended to give students an opportunity to learn from each other, in addition, the readings and the videos are intended to give them intellectual and conceptual language to think critically about multicultural relations and make personal and public connections about the way they appreciate and treat people who are different than themselves. A History of Multicultural America, First Paperback Edition, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, New York, 1993. Students are encouraged to consult the Academic Resource Center. Twelve hours a week.
Students are to use the theories, definitions and information covered in the texts.
The task in these papers is to show the connections between systems of oppression that use institutional discrimination, social control and individual acts of violence to devalue, degrade or destroy individuals and groups. Each paper is worth 20 points. Takaki's book is a multicultural history including the white, African American, Asian American, Native American and the Mexican American . Rothenberg's book examines issues of class, race and gender, through economics, the U.S. law, social construction, the creation of hierarchy and social control. The purpose of these readings is to analyze history, concepts and ideologies that have effected multicultural relationships through systems of oppression.