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Professor: Ricky K. Green Office: Amador 562A Office Hours M/W 10-11:50 Phone: 278-3359, E-mail: greenr@csus.edu Course
Description: Introduction to Ethnic Studies. Introduces the diverse institutional, cultural, and historical issues relating to the past and present life circumstances of Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, Black Americans, and Native Americans. Designed to introduce students to information presented in upper division courses with ethnic studies content. 3.0 units. Course
Objectives: ·
To provide
students with a broad range of information relating to issues affecting and
concerns of the groups identified above. ·
To familiarize students
with how social science literature has examined ethnic minorities. ·
To introduce
students to some important interdisciplinary concepts relating to the study
of ethnic minorities. ·
To promote an
understanding of the ethnic diversity of American society. Required Texts: Ethnicity and Race, Stephen Cornell Race and Ethnicity
in the Week(s) Assignment Section
One (Understanding Ethnicity, Race and Culture) 1 Race and Ethnicity, Chapter One
2-3 Ethnicity and Race, Chapter One and Two Midterm Friday September 17th
Section
Two (Understanding Ethnic Conflict) 4-5 Race and Ethnicity, Chapter Two and Three 6 Race and Ethnicity, Chapter 4 and 5 7 Ethnicity and Race, Chapter 3 Midterm Exam Wednesday Oct 15th Section
Three (Contemporary Ethnic America: Empowering Ethnicities) 8-9 Ethnicity and Race, Chapter 4 and 5 10-11 Ethnicity and Race, Chapter 6 and 7 12 Race and Ethnicity, Chapter 6
13-14 Ethnicity and Race, Chapter 5 Ethnicity and Race, Chapter 8
15 Review Finals Week Final Examination (Check date in class schedule) Weekly quizzes 10% Friday through Sunday (weekly) Attendance 10% taken daily First Exam 15% September 17th, Second Exam 20% Wednesday, October 15th, Group Project 20% Weeks 12-13 Final Exam 25% Finals Week Grading Scale. A=100-93 B=87-84 C=77-74 D=65-60 A-=92-90 B-=83-80 C-=73-70 F=59- B+=89-88
C+=79-78 D+=69-66 Section Three: Ethnic Empowerment • The structure of group relations Hierarchical ordering (racial stratification) Parallel ordering (ethnic pluralism) Ethnic empowerment is the movement from hierarchical ordering to parallel ordering, the movement toward ethnic pluralism In this section we will be examining how that movement was achieved. Our three main concerns are: constructionist theory ethnic pluralism (policy) ethnic enclaves (from our six constructions sites—residential space) Constructionism Both self ascription and ascription by others are critical factors in making ethnic identity and ethnic groups Ethnicity is fluid, dynamic (but unlike circumstantialism, constructionism is determined by events and activism) We are here reunited with our old terms of social construction and culture Comprehensiveness of ethnic identity How much ethnicity effects the organization of life Cultural connections Inter marriage Assimilation (what your author refers to as assimilation is really more complex a relationship between self ascription and ascription by others or the pull between social construction and cultural development) Assignment and
assertion Individual and group self determination in the development of ethnicity
Boundary—criteria for distinguishing between groups members (values) and non members (other group’s values) Perceived position (racial stratification, perceived group differences) Meaning—values, understanding, philosophy Ethnic identity perceived as a dynamic process which entails the relationship between self ascription (cultural development) and ascription by others (social construction) and the degree to which this relationship affects boundary, perceived position and meaning within the ethnic consciousness Graph
| | | | | ----------------------------|----------------------------- | | | | Shared interests—cultural, political, economic, physical Shared institutions—organization Shared culture—values, principles, traditions These variables have an effect on the thickness or thinness of ethnicity Case studies: African American and native American identity construction Distinct and unique patterns Comprehensive ethnic identity Black Native American Problems with circumstantialist theory and integration policy Pluralism—theory
that minority groups within a society should maintain cultural differences
but share overall political and economic power; allowing various ethnic
groups within a society the autonomy (self determination) to develop their
culture. (not segregation not multiculturalism) The
most immediate example of ethnic pluralism exists within the United States
(Native American reservations) and directly to the north of the United States
in Canada. Developing ethnic identity 1. social construction of race (international to national) articles (one drop rule, blood quota) 2. development of self determination (individual to group) (article dealing with self labeling, 3. the discourse of group identity (article dealing with self labeling) Ethnic enclaves are communities in which one of our four ethnic groups predominate We can talk of ethnic enclaves in terms of rural communities, urban communities and entire towns and cities (physical territory) We can talk of ethnic enclaves in terms of political communities, Black Nationalism, Chicano\Latino nationalism, Indian movements, asian movements For most groups this is more difficult to do but for a few groups there is a distinct notion of community on the national level; this notion is formed out of Ethnic conflict and functions in large part to address ethnic conflict Essential components of ethnic enclaves Afforded groups to develop their own culturally driven methods of politics, economics and literature (foundation of economics, politics, and education) Enclaves alternatively became source of empowerment Enclaves were marked by Anglo Americans as inferior (basis for impoverishment in all three areas) Enclaves broken down by civil rights Lost of jobs Open to economic exploitation Enclaves have recovered popularity Movement back into ethnic enclaves Buying black Chapter 6 Review the 6 critical construction sites Politics Political systems and boundary maintenance Distribution of political rights defines ethnic boundaries (concrete or fluid) Forms of political organization and informal practices South African homelands/ethnicity within formal structures Political construction of ethnicity Labor markets Ethnicity and occupational concentrations Ethnic division of labor Dynamics of labor concentration Coercion, timing, skills Residential space Ethnicity and residential concentrations High concentration poverty Boundedeness, exhaustiveness and density Reinforcement of group boundaries Social institutions Social institutions and identity salience Denial of access and search for alternative sources Intermarriage Effects of intermarriage on ethnicity Culture Categories of ascription Race, class, labor Classification themes Daily experience Chapter 7 The construction of identities takes place in an interaction between, on the one hand, the opportunities and constraints groups encounter in construction sites, and on the other hand, what they bring to that encounter. Culture as a tool of survival. Includes both view of selves and views of outsiders (explain) Population size Significance of numbers Population size and social context Internal differentiation (cultural development) Pay attention to authors note of assumption of homogeneity within outside groups but awareness of subtle differences among own group Sex (ratio, dominance, practices—circumcision) Generation (moving away from original society and inclusion in American society) Class
(class construction within the Social Capital (refers to relationships among persons)—institutions (formal and informal) Institutional completeness Social capital and forms of migration
Human Capital (skills and knowledge of individuals on aggregate level) Symbolic Repertories (ethnic paradigms) Stories Ritual and celebration Cultural practices The use and growth of symbolic repertories Groups, Contexts, and agendas Table Last updated: 09/02/2008 |
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