ETH 121 - Current Issues in Ethnic and Diversity Studies

1. Explain the concept of ethnicity and what that means.
2. Examine the importance of ethnic identity and awareness in America.
3. Discuss past and current U.S. immigration policies with regard to ethnic origin.
4. Discuss the efforts and importance of the preservation of ethnic identity in America.
5. Identify tensions among ethnic groups that seem to belong to the same culture.
6. Discuss the ebb and flow of violence against ethnic groups in America.
7. Discuss how ethnic culture has enriched America.
8. Summarize official and unofficial negative U.S. policies that discriminate against ethnic groups.
9. Investigate whether ethnic groups should “shed” their cultures when coming to America.

1. Define ethnicity
2. The American “Melting Pot Theory”
3. Current and past U.S. immigration policies and ethnicity
4. Preserve ethnic identity or “assimilate”
5. Ethnic contributions to America
6. The Navajo “code talkers”
7. Ethnic oppression in the United States: official and unofficial
8. Ethnicity in the media
9. The ethnic factor in education
10. Ethnic isolation in America
11. Violence against ethnic groups in America
12. Pittsburgh’s ethnic communities and their development

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• Culture Society & Citizenship

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