Item #3, Patterson, “preface” and “The Meaning of

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Cultural Diversity in the United States

ISS 2160, LIT 109

Fall, 2005

Willie L. Baber (wbaber@anthro.ufl.edu)

B133 Turlington Hall, 392-6646

Period 3, 9:35-10:35 Office Hours: MW 11:30-12:30 or appointment

See section Information, below

Texts:

Abbott, Edwin A., Flatland , Penguin Books, 1987 [1952]

Feagin, Joe R. and Clairece Booher Feagin, Racial and Ethnic Relations , Prentice Hall, 7 th edition

Haley, Alex, The Autobiography of Malcolm X , Ballantine Books, 1992 [1964]

Shanklin, Eugenia, Anthropology and Race , Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1994

Reader (supplemental articles)

Texts, reader and syllabus are available exclusively at

Orange & Blue Textbooks

309 NW 13 th Street

Gainesville, FL 32601

352-375-2707

Section information

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TA: Ms. Alana Lynch Section 5155, Friday, period 3, MAT 0016

TA: Ms. Amy Cox

Section 5158, Friday, period 5, MAT 0016

Section 5150, Friday, period 3, FAC 0127

Section 5162, Friday, period 5, MAT 0112

Purpose of this Course : This course explores both the contributions and experiences of a variety of racial and ethnic groups, and develops the basic conceptual tools required to enter into a discourse on cultural diversity in the United States. This is an interdisciplinary course, employing perspectives from anthropology, other social sciences or the humanities.

Course Format: This course consists of two lectures and one discussion section each week.

Guest speakers may also present some of the perspectives or issues of the course. Two graduate teaching assistants will lead discussion sections, and they will be available for consultation as you move through course material, and develop a required essay. Your essay is not a term paper; think of it as an essay in which you engage your own experiences that relate to the topics of this course. You are to use the theoretical and conceptual tools of this course to bring new insights into your own experiences with cultural diversity, including new analytical tools that you will learn. A draft of your essay is due on November 18 th , and a final draft is due on December 15 th .

Gordon’s Rule Requirement:

This course satisfies the 6,000 words Gordon Requirement. Each student will submit a 16 page rough draft, and then a final essay, in addition to completing the essay portions of each exam.

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Exams: Both exams (September 30 and December 7) will be essay with some multiple-choice questions as well. No excused absences except for medical reasons with sufficient documentation.

Class attendance is important : Attendance will be monitored in discussion sections, and lecture material will constitute important “frames” for multiple-choice questions

Class Evaluations: Your final grade for this course will be determined by the following, with total accumulated points divided by the total number of points possible; 90,80,70, 60 percent of points correspond to A, B, C, D grades.

Midterm exam……………… 50 points

Essay daft…………………… 10 points

Essay final draft…………….. 40 points

Second exam………………… 50 points

Class discussion/attendance…..20 points

Total…………………………170 points

August 24: Orientation and Introduction: Culture Theory and Race

August 26: Discussion: discourse on cultural diversity

Readings: Abbott, Flatland, part I

Introduction and/or Preface to Texts:

Feagin and Feagin, Racial and Ethnic Relations

Shanklin, Anthropology and Race

Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Review titles and authors of selections in the Reader

August 29: Social Stratification and Racism

August 31: Biological and sociological “race.”

September 1: Discussion: Racial and ethnic concepts in popular culture

Reading: Abbott, Flatland, part II

Shanklin, chapters 1-3

Feagin, chapter 1

Labor Day, September 5 th

(no classes)

September 7: Theories

September 9: Discussion: variations in adaptation and conflict

Reading: Feagin, chapter 2

Shanklin, chapters 4and 5

September 12: Slavery and Freedom

September 14: Film: Ethnic Notions

September 16: Discussion: slavery=Racism, or Racism=Slavery

Reading: Feagin, Part II overview and Chapter 3

Item #3, Patterson, “preface” and “The Meaning of Freedom”

Item #4, Nash, “Red, White, and Black: The Origins of Racism…”

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September 19: Resistance and Activism

September 21: Film: The Legacy of Malcolm

September 23: Discussion: Malcolm X and resistance

Reading : Feagin, Chapter 7

Malcolm X, Intro-3

September 26: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Protest

September 28: Social Stratification: Gender, Race, and Class

Reading: Item #6, Zinn, et al., “Gender Through the Prism of Difference”

Malcom X, chapter 4-6

Item #2, Baber,“St. Clair Drake: Scholar and Activist”

September 30: MIDTERM EXAM

October 3: Hispanics

October 5: National borders, multilingualism, transnational identity

Reading: Feagin, Chapters 8 and 9

Item #10, Fox, “Acknowledgment,” “Imagining a Nation” (chapter 1)

and “Counting” (chapter 2)

October 7: Home coming, no classes

October 10: Native American World Views

October 12: Indigenous peoples and international law

October 14: Discussion: Multilingualism or Official English?

Readings: Feagin, Chapter 6

Item #8, Stiffarm and Lane, jr, “The Demography of Native North

America.

Item #9, Morris, “International Law and Politics: Toward a Right to

Self-Determination for Indigenous Peoples”

October 17: Irish and Italian Americans

October 19: Assimilation or acculturation?

October 21: Discussion: Assimilation and cultural survival

Readings: Feagin, chapter 4

Item #7, Mary C. Waters, “Optional Ethnicities: For Whites Only?”

Malcolm X, chapters 7-9

October 24: Asian Americans

October 26: Orientalism

October 28: Discussion: The “model minority” stereotype

Readings: Feagin, Chapters 10, 11

Item # 12, Zia “From Nothing, a Consciousness,” and “ Surrogate

Slave to American Dreamers”

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October 31: Islamic Peoples in the US

November 2: The Jewish American Experience

November 4: Discussion: Religious Diversity in American Culture

Readings: Feagin, Chapters 5, 12,

Item #11, Shapiro, World War II and American Jewish Identity”

Item #1, St. Clair Drake, “God’s Hand in Black History”

November 7: Sexual Orientation and Political Discourse

November 9: Homophobia and HIV/AIDS

Reading:

Item #5, Schwartz and Rutter, “The Gender of Sexuality”

Reading: Malcolm X, chapters 10-12

November 11 (no classes), Veterans Day

November 14: The Civil Rights Movement

November 16: Film: Eyes on the Prize

November 18: Discussion: Nationalism versus Integration

Reading

: Item #13, Murray “Profiled: Arabs, Muslims, and the Post 9/11 Hunt

for the ‘Enemy Within’”

Malcolm X, 13-15

NOVEMBER 18: A DRAFT OF YOU 16 PAGE ESSAY, INCLUDING NO MORE THAN

2 PAGE OF REFERENCES, IS DUE IN YOUR DISCUSSION SESSION.

November 21: Affirmative Action in Historical Perspective

November 23: One Florida

Readings: Feagin, chapter 13

Malcolm X, 16 through epilogue

November 25 (no classes), Thanksgiving Recess

November 28: Cultural Diversity in anthropological perspective

November 30: Summary and Conclusion

December 2: Discussion: Affirmative action and One Florida

Reading: Feagin, chapter 14

15. December 5: Review session

December 7: Second Exam

A FINAL DRAFT OF YOUR 16 PAGE ESSAY, INCLUDING NO MORE THAN 2 PAGE

OF REERENCES, IS DUE ON DECEMBER 15, 2005 .

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