The Changing Face of America

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The Changing Face of America
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Outline
1. Immigration and demographic trends
2. Racial inequality theories (essentialized
racial identity)
3. Component parts of ethnic identity
4. Amalgamation Theories
5. Integration v. Assimilation v. Pluralism
6. Issei v. Nisei v. Sansei
7. Raising Awareness
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Its not the figment of the pigmentits the
stigma of the enigma
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Immigration/Demographics(charts 1-4)
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Promote equality of opportunity over equality of
results
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Racial Inequality Theories
1. Bias
2. Deficiency
3. Structural Discrimination
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Component Parts of Ethnic Identity
1. Hybridity
2.Heterogeneous
3. Multiple
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Amalgamation Theories

• Melting pot (Israel Zangwill)

2. Cultural Pluralism (Horace Kallen)
3. Anglo conformity
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Generational Differences

• Issei

2. Nisei
3. Sansei
4. Ethnic option
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Dont step outside your comfort zone.
Expand your comfort zone.
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Raising Awareness
1. Treating equally v. treating the same
2. Diversity means difference
3. Internal v. external
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Sources
Daniels, Roger and Otis L. Graham. Debating
American Immigration, 1882- Present. New York
Rowan Littlefield, Inc., 2001. Kottak, Conrad
Phillip, and Kathryn A. Kozaitis. On Being
Different Diversity and Multiculturalism in the
North American Mainstream. Boston McGraw-Hill
College, 1999. Aguirre, Adalberto Jr., and
Jonathan H. Turner. American Ethnicity The
Dynamics and Consequences of Discrimination.
Boston McGraw-Hill, 1998.