ANT 4401 EXPLORING CROSS-CULTURAL DIVERSITY  -XMW      Spring  2001, Davis 236 African dance, at SPIFFS Fair, St. Petersburg An American Indian Movement protest march.  Blessing of monks and elders at Thai Water Festival, Tampa Buddhist Temple Montage of protests by Coalition of Imacolee Farm Workers

Jay Sokolovsky,  Anthropology Office: COQ 214, phone 553-1514  E-MAIL JAY SOKOLOVSKY Office hours: TU, 3-5, Th, 11-1,  by appointment.  Rebecca Johns, Geography  rjohns@stpt.usf.edu Office Hours: Tuesday, 1 pm - 2 pm, Wed., 10 a.m. to 12 noon or by appointment.

Course Outline
This course will introduce students to anthropological, geographic and other social science perspectives which are useful in understanding the implications of cultural diversity related to changing demographic patterns within our country as well as to increasing globalization. Students will have the opportunity to undertake focused projects on diversity within Community Partner organizations in the Tampa Bay Area. The course is funded by a special grant from the University-Community Initiative, a program intended to encourage collaboration between USF and its surrounding community.

More than ten community groups were involved in the conceptualization of the course, its focus, content and methods.  Each of these organizations works in Pinellas County or the greater Tampa Bay area on some aspect of diversity.  Most of the groups will continue to be involved in the course by providing guest speakers, resources, attending special events, and most importantly, providing an internship opportunity for students enrolled in the class.

The class is student based, and active participation is required.  Class format will include short lectures, films, guest speakers, in-class activities, discussion and field trips.

Class Requirements

Attendence and class engagement: Because of the participatory nature of the course, attendance is required for a good performance evaluation. Student who miss more than three class sessions cannot earn an A grade*. From time to time you will also be asked to send us your thoughts on the readings for the next class - via e-mail (see below). Your responses will be counted as part of the class engagement part of your grade.

Total Points: 40

Participation in Diversity Event:

You are to participate in an approved community event and write a short report on the event and its meaning. Note there is a list of suggested events on the course outline below and on the class website, but if you select another event you must get this approved by one of the instructors.

The report is to include the following:

1. Description of the event (what went on)

2. a. Goals of the event related to diversity target audience, groups involved.* b. Perception of the event by a small selection of participants (3-4 persons).

            3. How did what you observed and learned relate to important issues brought up in class discussion or readings?

            Total points: 30

Service Learning Internship (15 hours of involvement)

Students will complete a focused project requiring 15 hours of involvement with a Community Partner organization and complete a report on this work. Students will be expected to keep a log/diary of their activities that will be shared with the community organization you work with (see web site under Service Learning, Log/diary). During week 3, students will meet the Community Partners in class and have an opportunity to learn about the mission of these organizations – see our web site under Community Partners for information about some of these groups. Each student will work out a contract with the community organization that spells out not only the activities but also the expected learning goals.

Total points: 60

Note: Students can do a larger service learning project for added credit by signing up for Service Learning 4930, 1-3* credits, where 20 hours equals 1 credit hour. This course is run by Dr. Susan Fernandez.

Service Learning Report/Final Project:

You are required to produce a final report and poster explaining and discussing your experience at the organization you interned with, in the context of the issues raised in class.  The written portion of your report must be in the form of a formal paper, approximately ten pages in length.  In addition, you will create a poster using a combination of graphics (pictures from your internship, literature explaining the project or organization) and text to summarize your experience and its relevance to the issues. Students will be expected to discuss what is on the poster and the top three projects will be given awards (books, teeshirts, etc).

Your final report should include a section explaining further action that could be taken (or that you intend to participate in) to further address the issues raised in your project.

Total points:    Report – 30

                        Poster – 30

                        Presentation - 10

 Mid term: This will be a take home essay which will ask you to think about some important issues brought up in the class, such as NAGPRA, the Human Genome Project, Race, Ethnicity, Class, Gender inequality.

Total Points: 40

 Summary of Points:

Attendance/Participation            40

Diversity Event Report               30

Service Learning Internship        60

Midterm                                      40

Final Report                                30

Poster                                          30

Presentation                                10

Total:                                        240

 Grading will be done on a percentage basis. Plus/minus grades will be utilized.

 E-MAIL AND THE INTERNET: We expect students to get an e-mail account (they are free through the computer center) and be capable of accessing web sites. By the second week of class we expect you to have done the following:

1.send us a your thoughts (our addresses is on top of the first page) about the key focus issues listed for week 2 in the syllabus below.

2. Make sure you know how to connect to the web and have looked at the class web site. Some of your assignments will come from the web and be indicated as a "web reading" on the syllabi. These are important parts of the course and in most cases there will be copy of this in library reserve – so we do not want to hear that you could not read this kind of assignment due to a computer malfunction.

PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH E-MAIL OR CONNECTING TO THE CLASS WEB SITE

Texts:  (1) On Being Different, by Conrad Kottak and Kathryn Kozaitis, 1999.

(2) The Meaning of Difference by Karen Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle Travis, 2000. [Note: the number before each text is used in the assignments below to indicate the book from which the readings are to be taken.]

CLASS TOPICS SCHEDULE

 Week  1 (Jan. 9)  -             ORIENTATION

             Review of the themes and requirements of the course.

             Film – “Horizons and Homelands: Integrating Cultural Roots

 Week 2 (Jan. 16) - CULTURE, CONSTRUCTING CATEGORIES OF     DIFFERENCE       

            Video - Forming a West African (Igbo) Union in Tampa Bay,

            Jonathan Esulike, Discussant

             (Possible campus performance, Jan 22 of Indigenous dance)

             Readings:

            1. Chap 1, 2,

            2. Section I "Constructing Categories of Difference: Framework Essay”; Section II experiencing Difference: Framework Essay."

             Web Readings:

                        Immigrants Balance Santa With Their Own Traditions By Chris Hedges

                        http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/divxmass.htm

            Recommended web readings

                        New Strife Tests Nigeria's Fragile Democracy

                        http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/divafr2.htm

 FOCUS ISSUES, Week 2,: Please e-mail us a 1-2 paragraph answer for each of these questions -  by the Monday before next class.

 Reading Book 1. and web reading.

1a. According to Kottak and Kozaitis, is there a national culture in the United States? If it exists, what are its key dimensions?

1b. How is it expressed in rituals such as Thanksgiving and Christmas (look at the web reading) or mass media such the “Star Trek” TV Series.

 Reading book 2:

2a. Consider the ways the categories of racial and ethnic difference that we are accustomed to using are defined from a particular point of view, i.e., androcentric, Eurocentric, etc.   How does understanding this help us see difference from the “constructivist” point of view? How does this differ from the

“essentialist” view of social categories.

2B. Consider the concept of hierarchies of privilege in relation to your own life. In what ways do you experience privilege? In what ways might you be the victim of stigma? How do these conflicting social positions work in your life?

 Week 3 (Jan. 23)             MEETING WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS

             Community partners will introduce themselves to students; students will have the opportunity to meet with each group and choose a group to work with for the semester.

                        Possible Film for second half of the class – “Skin Deep.”

            Readings:

            1.) Chapters  3, 4

 Week 4 (Jan. 30)            ETHNICITY, CULTURE AND RACE

 Special Event: Talk by Paule Cruz-Takash, A Latina’s View of Whiteness and White Privilege

             Readings:

1.     Chap. 4, 5 (up to page 76), 8

2.     #35, 36

            "Race and Poverty in the Psychology of Prejudice," David Shields from, The Color of Hunger

            Web Readings:  Accusations of Bias Roil Florida Law School By WILLIAM GLABERSON  New York Times, October 30, 2000. http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/divrac3.htm

            Recommended Web reading WHITE PRIVILEGE: UNPACKING THE INVISIBLE KNAPSACK by Peggy McIntos hhttp://www.toronto.edu/acc/events/peggy1.htm

            Web Resource:

            The Center for the Study of White American Culture (the Center) supports cultural exploration and self-discovery among white Americans. http://www.euroamerican.org/

            Recommended Reading:

"The Global Aggression by the West," pg 2 - 23, from The West and the

                        Rest of Us. Chinweizu, Pero Press, 1975.  

Week 5  (Feb 06)            THE NEW IMMIGRANTS – CAN NORTH AMERICA HANDLE SUCH DIVERSITY?

This week we will try to catch up. There will be no focus questions, but as you go through the assigned readings, think about the following: how do the factors of ethnicity and minority status intersect with power and privilege in a class based society such as ours; how do readings and our discussion of white privilege relate to the accusations of racism at the Univ. of Florida, made by Professor Kenneth Nunn (from web assignment, week 4). Finally, be prepared to defend one side of the argument discussed in the handout listed below.

 Service Learning Projects: Before next class make sure you have met with one of the course instructors about these projects and come prepared to the meeting with a priority list of community partners you wish to work with and specific ideas for projects with at least two organizations.

                         REVISED ASSIGNMENT!!         

            Readings:

            1.         Finish Chap 5, and 6, 16

            2.         #6; #20

            Handout: “Issue: Is immigration a problem in the United States?”

        Web Assignment    

MEXICAN-AMERICANS: Forging a New Vision of America's Melting Pot

February 11, 2001, New York Times, by GREGORY RODRIGUEZ, http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/diveth3.htm

Review the web assignment: (from week 4)   Accusations of Bias Roil Florida Law School By WILLIAM GLABERSON  New York Times, October 30, 2000. http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/divrac3.htm

 Recommended Web Readings:

For 'New Danes,' Differences Create a Divide, by Roger Cohen, New York Times, Dec 18, 2000.www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/divimm1.htm

            Special Resources

                        Southeast Asian Archive http://www.lib.uci.edu/rrsc/sasian.html

                         Special Web Resources: Radio Show: A COMMON PATH: A PUBLIC FORUM ON IMMIGRATION AND FLORIDA http://realityworks.wmnf.org/commonpath/

            Weeks 6 (Feb. 13)            WHAT IS RACE?

Guest Speaker Neil Henderson, Assos. Prof. of Anthropology, College of Public Health, USF (Oklahoma Choctaw).

               Film – Who Owns the Past 

            Readings:

            1. Chaps.5, 6, 7

            2. "What is Race?," #1, 2, 3 

             “Social Differentiation and Cultural Diversity” in Social and Behavioral Foundations of Public Health. J. Coreil, Carol Bryant and J. N. Henderson, Sage, 2001.

            Web Readings:

            “How Race is Lived in America”, York Times Series 
"Best of Friends, Worlds Apart" - Joel Ruiz is Black. Achmed Valdés is White. In Miami they discovered it matters.

                        The Color of Bones: How a 9,000-year-old skeleton called Kennewick Man sparked the strangest case of racial profiling yet. By SCOTT L. MALCOMSON    

                        Do Races Differ? Not Really, DNA Shows by NATALIE ANGIER, New York Times Aug. 22, 2000

             Recommended web readings:  

                       
January 29, 2001 New York Times
Who Is a Seminole, and Who Gets to Decide? By WILLIAM GLABERSON http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/divseml1.htm         

                        "The African Burial Ground: Archeology as Community Service," by Warren Perry  www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/burialgr.htm    

American Anthropological  Association Statement on "Race" http://www.aaanet.org./stmts/racepp.htm

            Week 7 (Feb 20) - SPECIAL EVENT - SHOWING OF THE BURNING OF TULSA OKLAHOMA  

            SPECIAL EVENT - SPECIAL PLACE - REGULAR TIME, 6PM    CLASS IS BEING HELD AT THE FLORIDA HOLOCAUST MUSEUM, 55 Fifth Street South - BETWEEN CENTRAL AVENUE AND 1^ST AVENUE SOUTH. 

 PLEASE MAKE A SPECIAL EFFORT TO BE A LITTLE EARLY IF POSSIBLE, BUT MAKE SURE YOU ARRIVE NO LATER THAN 6.

 AGENDA FOR CLASS

6-6:50             TOUR OF THE MUSEUM

6:50-7:15        RECEPTION UPSTAIRS

7:15-8PM            SHOWING OF VIDEO "THE NIGHT TULSA, BURNED"

8PM -              CLASS DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FILM AND ITS CONNECTION TO ETHNIC CLEANSING IN THE PAST DECADE.

AS PART OF THIS DISCUSSION WE WILL HAVE COMMENTS FROM NOTED HISTORIAN JOHN HOPE FRANKLYN AND STEPHEN GOLDMAN, DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM.

 Readings:

Handouts: (1) "Panel Recommends Reparations in Long-Ignored Tulsa Race Riot," (2) The Wannsee Protocol: Minutes of the 1942 Wannsee Conference planning the annihilation of over eleven million European Jews. (3) Handout on genocide directed at Native Americans.

1. Review: Pages, 76-78

            Web Reading:

1) View and read Ron Haviv’s photo essay, “Blood and Honey.” It will give you an insight into how ethnic cleansing comes about. http://www.photoarts.com/haviv/bloodandhoney/RON HAVIV - BLOOD AND HONEY 

Recommended Web Reading:

            2) Erasing America's Color Lines by WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON                        January 14, 2001, New York Times. www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/divclint.htm

Special Web Resources: (1)  The Florida Holocaust Museum http://www.flHolocaustMuseum.org/ (2) A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/default.htm (3) ROSEWOOD REBORN, http://rosewood.wmnf.org/

Week 8  (Feb 27)  -             ECONOMIC DIVERSITY, CLASS – NOTE WE HAVE SWITCHED AROUND WEEKS 8 AND 9.

             ESSAY MID TERM EXAM HANDED OUT – Due Next week

                                     Film - Roger and Me

            Readings:

1.     Chap. 13*, 14

2.     "What is Social Class” #10, 11

Handout "The Wage Gap: Myths and Facts," Paula Rothenberg, Race, Class and Gender

        Recommended

            "Homeless in America," Jonathan Alter et al. From Housing the Homeless Resources:

"Getting at Hunger's Roots: the Legacy of Colonialism and Racism," Kevin Danaher from The Color of Hunger

            Week 9  (March 6)  -  ETHNIC CONFLICT AND REBELLION

Panel: Ethnic Conflict, Conciliation and Community Development in St. Petersburg, Anticipated Panelists, Tina Middleton, Coordinator, Mayor’s Challenge Program; Omali Yeshatila, Candidate for Mayor, Rick Baker, Candidate for Mayor; Bill Heller, Vi-e-President, USF-Bayboro. After viewing a video of the hearings following the 1996 disturbances in south St. Petersburg and the TV show, “Bridging the Racial Divide,” a panel of local political and community leaders will discuss the implications of the 1996 disturbances in South St. Petersburg and the future of the city.

             Readings:   2: #24: #25# 26

             Web Readings:

Future Tense: On Oct. 24, 1996 TyRon Lewis became the latest in a long line of flash points around which community's rally. Mr. Lewis' shooting death by a white police officer set off two  separate incidents of violent disturbances in October and November 1996. 
http://www.nelson.usf.edu/mclin/FutureTense/FT.2.html

Excerpt from a USF Anthropology Master's Thesis by Eric Chrisp "THE POWER OF THE PAST IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT." Riot, Rebellion or What?

Web Resources: An Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Political Economy of Ethnicity Among African Americans in St. Petersburg, Florida by Evelyn Phillips 
St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, by Ray Arsenault brings to life the people and circumstances that brought the area's black and white pioneers together as a  community. 

 SPRING BREAK - MARCH 13 - NO CLASS

Week 10  (Mar. 20)                         MEDIA AND DIVERSITY

            Film In Whose Honor?

            Guest Speaker: Sheridan Murphy (Executive Director, Florida American Indian Movement

            Guest Discussants, Liz Bird, Professor, Anthropology, USF,  Aly Colon, Pointer Institute

             Readings:

2. #’s 42; 43; 44

Library Reserve:

"Redskins Rally Sounds Different to Indians," Courtland Milloy (on library reserve); “Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress: Another Attempt at Eliminating Native American Mascots,” Aaron Goldstein

            Handout: Chapter from Dressing in Feathers, Liz Bird

            Web reading:          

ANT 4401 –  CLASS UPDATES.

 PLEASE NOTE THAT MANY OF THE COMPUTERS IN THE MAIN COMPUTER CENTER WHICH HAVE AN OLD VERSION OF NETSCAPE (4.0) CANNOT READ THE ORIGINAL WEBSITE ADDRESS. I HAVE CREATED AN ALTERNATIVE ADDRESS IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS:

http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/syl4401nc.htm

 Weeks 11 (Mar. 27)             GENDER – NOTE CLASS MEETS IN 215

            Film:   The Fairer Sex           

            Readings:

            1. Chapters 9,

             2. #7, 9; 27, 37

            Web Reading: (1) Peggy Sanday, "Eggi's Village:  Life Among the Minangkabau of Indonesia" http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~psanday/eggi2.html

            Question: what do the Minangkabau mean when they refer to their social system as a "matriarchate"? How does that differ from how males and females relate to the social, economic and political system in the United States?

 Weeks 12   (Apr. 3 )             GENDER- NOTE CLASS MEETS 215 DAVIS

            Guest Speaker - Carol Carpenter - Date Rape and Domestic Abuse 

            Readings:

1.      ch 10

Handout: Peggy Sanday "Rape Prone Versus Rape Free Campus Cultures" Violence Against Women, Vol. 2 No. 2, June, l996, pp. 191: 208.

 On reserve: "The Social Construction of Sexuality," Ruth Hubbard, Paula Rothenberg;"The Language of Sexism," Haig Bosmajian, from Paula Rothenberg, from Race, Class and Gender

             Web Reading:

                        Barbara Crossette, "Amid the Pain and Isolation, Finally, a Friend." A New York Times article on the problems of spouse abuse in Asian families in New York City. http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/divwom1.htm

         Recommended:

            Jane Gross, "Gays Find Warm Welcome in a New Jersey Suburb," New York Times, December 4, 2000. http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/divgay1.htm

 Week 13 (Apr. 10)            AGE AND GENERATION

             Film - Dugabor Elders    

            <Possible event with Grandparents caring for grandkids>

            Readings:

            1. Chap 11

            2.

Weeks 14 – (Apr. 17)                        DISABILITY

            1.     Chap. 12

            2.     "Disability Definitions: The Politics of Meaning," Michael Oliver

Week  15 – (Apr. 24)                     STUDENT POSTER SESSIONS

Special Diversity Events:

"March for Farmworker Justice", Saturday and Sunday, January 13-14, 2001, from Quincy to the Governor's mansion in Tallahassee.   Check the CIW website at: www.ciw-online.org for details.

Jan. 15,  Martin Luther King March, downtown, St. Petersburg.  The march begins along beach drive at about 5th ave. north and continues along the drive past the Vinoy Hotel and turns right on central avenue to 9th st., where it turns left a couple of blocks and then heads toward the "Dome."

Jan 18-27, Dreamtime, Our Time: The Eternal Struggle. Contact is Gretchen Warren, USF Tampa Aboriginal dance performances from Australian and Native American Indigenous peoples
Tickets for shows: 18, 19, 20th at 7pm; 21st at 2pm
24th-27th at 7:30; 27th at 2pm - $10 for students (no late admission)
At the USF Contemporary Art Museum (park in Fine Arts lot) - box office, 813-974-2323 rehearsals can be attended contact Professor Gretchen Warren, 813 974-2022
3pm thurs 25th - Native American presentation wed 24th, noon, marshal center, ballroom.

Feb 4, 4-6pm  The Black History Pageant of the Bethel Community Baptist Church "A Family Reunion" - Mahffey Theater, Bayfront Center - free.

Feb 9th, Florida Humanities Council, "Crossing Boundaries" Program, Florida Center for Teachers,  "Parallel Lives" with Bill Maxwell and Beverly Coyle, Plus varied activities Feb 8th-11, at USF - Bayboro Campus, Humanities Center Auditorium.
Alumni Program – “Crossing Boundaries” 
FCT - 118 Please call 553-3800 with any questions. 
Programs open to the USF St. Petersburg Faculty and Staff 
______________________________________________________________ 
Friday, February 9, 2001 
9:00 – 11:30 am A Literary Look at Race 
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Weldon Johnson talk about their life and times
during the Harlem Renaissance and their perceptions of being “Negro” in America. Scholars Pace,
McEwen, and Mitchell reflect on the roles their characters played and the enduring legacy of race in
America. 

1:30 – 3:30 pm Parallel Lives in Florida 
Writers Bill Maxwell and Beverly Coyle tell their stories of growing up in Jim Crow Florida living 
“Parallel Lives.” Following their readings, we engage in a conversation with our presenters to explore
the legacy we have inherited from the days of Jim Crow. 

Saturday, Feb. 10, 2001 
1:30 – 3:30 pm Race, Class and Identity – Latin Views 

Maura Barrios, of the USF Latin American Studies program, moderates a panel of Floridians with
roots in the Caribbean. We examine Latin notions of race, ethnicity, and class in their encounter with
the long and complicated history of the traditional black/white dichotomy. 

Feb 10-11 Boys/Girls Club African American History Fair

Feb 19-21 Tampa Bay's First Annual Black Heritage Festival

Street Festival along 600 & 700 block of Franklin Street, Downtown Tampa Dance Performances at the University Area Community Center Complex located at 14013 North 22nd Street, North Tampa/USF area Gospel Concert along 600 & 700 block of Franklin Street, Downtown Tampa

Feb 24, Florida African American Heritage Celebration, 10am-4pm at the Pinewood Cultural Park, Heritage Village, Ulmerton Road in Largo. Call Heritage Village for information, 727-582-2123.

March 7-11, St. Petersburg International Folk Fair Society, International Folk Fair- Bayfront Center

Thai Water Festival, Buddhist Temple, South Tampa

May 3rd-9th Color Me Human Week, 727-328-1769 -

Discover Native American Pow-wow
Eckerd Native American Film Series

USF - Bayboro Lecture Series: Student Activity Center - 6pm

Feb.   5th - Kendrick Meek, "African Americans and Affirmative Action"
Feb. 12th - Kirke Kicking Bird, "Native Americans, Sovereignty and the Law"
Feb, 19th - Bill Maxwell and Beverly Coyle,  "Parallel Lives" A provocative look at      the segregated world of 1950s Florida.

Apr.  09th - Susan MacManus, Florida's Developing Intergenerational Conflict.

Films:
Who Owns the Past
Reexamining US History From a Multicultural Perspective
Broken Promises
The Native American Church and the Supreme Court
Peyote Road
Mexicans Keep Out
Understanding Our Differences: Mexican and American
Roger and Me
Moslems in America
Essential Blue Eyed
Race: The world's most dangerous myth
Smoke Signals
The Tulsa Riots
Essential Blue-Eyed
Skin Deep
Bridging the Racial Divide
Forming a West African (Igbo) Union in Tampa Bay
Thai American Identity in St. Petersburg
Blossoms of Fire - about Zapotec women

Diversity Wars - Culture, Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Class
 

Films
Who Owns the Past
Reexamining US History From a Multicultural Perspective

Web Resources

"Selling Ethnicity" By Marilyn Halter
Washington Post, Sunday, July 16, 2000; Page B03

Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

"Kennewick Man" Controversy

Bones in Museum Cases May Get Decent Burials, By Rachel Swarns, November 4, 2000, New York Times. The bones of Khoisan peoples of South African are being removed from display as indigenous groups seek to have remains reburied in a public ceremony.

Indian Lawsuits Threaten Canadian Churches
By JAMES BROOKEN, New York Times, November 2, 2000

U.S. Plan Would Sacrifice Baby Eagles to Hopi Ritual

AMEA:Association of MultiEthnic Americans
www.ameasite.org/

GENDER:
Web Assignment:  Peggy Sanday, "Eggi's Village:  Life Among the Minangkabau of Indonesia"http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~psanday/eggi2.html
Question: what do the Minangkabau mean when they refer to their social system as a
matriarchate.; How does that differ from how males and females relate to the social, economic and political system in the United States.

Peggy Sanday,  Rape-Prone Versus Rape-Free Campus Cultures
in Violence Against Women, Vol. 2 No. 2, June, l996, pp. 191- 208.

BARBARA CROSSETTE  "Amid the Pain and Isolation, Finally, a Friend", Problems of spouse abuse in Asian families in New York City http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~jsokolov/divwom1.htm

Jane Gross, Gays Find Warm Welcome in a New Jersey Suburb

Mao's Nightmare: Revolutionaries in Bare Midriff By Craig Smith, New York Times, December 4, 2000

ETHNICITY

The New Migration: A New Immigrant Wave, More Varied Than Ever.  A new immigrant identity, with intense bonds to home, has evolved over the last three decades, as a vast tide of newcomers has given New York City the largest, most ethnically varied, immigrant population in its history.
 

NY City, Percent Foreign Born/Total Pop. 1930  36.1% / 7.6 million
1970   33.7% / 6.8 million
1997  19.0% / 7.9 million

Radio Show: A COMMON PATH: A PUBLIC FORUM ON IMMIGRATION AND FLORIDA http://realityworks.wmnf.org/commonpath/

From a Babel of Tongues, a Neighborhood  By SUSAN SACHS

New Immigrant Tide: Shuttle Between Worlds By DEBORAH SONTAG and CELIA W. DUGGER

A Mexican Town That Transcends All Borders  By DEBORAH SONTAG

Wedding Vows Bind Old World and New By CELIA W. DUGGER

For 'New Danes,' Differences Create a Divide by ROGER COHEN, New York Times, Dec. 18, 2000

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Diaspora/roots.html
"Establishing Roots, Engendering Awareness:  A Political History of Asian Indians in the United States,"  by Vinay Lal (also in divasia2)

Native American Identity

Web Resources:
Going Home With a Postmodern Medicine Man, By BILL DONAHUE

Indian Rights vs. a National Sanctuary By ANTHONY RAMIREZ
 

WEB ASSIGNMENT: From "In the News" section, read two pieces from "The Makah and the Gray Whale," - Tribe Harpoons Gray Whale; Celebrating a Whale Hunt.  The Makah Indian reservation at Neah bay is home to 2000 indigenous residents who revived gray whale hunting, in 1999, after almost 80 years of stopping to prevent extinction of that whale species.

Native American Web Resources  Local & Regional links: American Indian Peoples at the Time of European Contact Seminole Tribe of Florida Seminole History The American Indian Movement of Florida  Brickell Point site, ("Miami Circle") Ancient Architects of the Mississippi National Native American links: National Museum of the American Indian Native American Sites Arctic Studies Center First Nation Information Project Native American Art Resources Index of Native American Media Resources on the Internet The Mascot Issue Indianz.com

The Human Genome Project - The quest to identify all the approximately 100,000 genes in human DNA and determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical bases that make up human DNA, has great implications for the study of diversity in the human species. What does the project results say about the concept of race. First click on this link to gain a basic understanding of this project and then read the article below.

Do Races Differ? Not Really, DNA Shows by NATALIE ANGIER, New York Times Aug. 22, 2000