Race/Ethnicity

(Select 4-6 hours/week from the following. You may also choose resources of your own, with instructor approval. Post your reflections in the WebCT discussion topic, citing which resources you have used.)

Readings:

Soo-Young Chin, Doing What Had To Be Done: The Life Narrative of Dora Yum Kim, Temple University Press, 1999

Richard Bak, Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars: The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933, Wayne State University Press, 1995

John Leland, Racial or Racist? Censoring a Rabbit http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/featured_articles/010604monday.html (We will be viewing this cartoon in class)

Multimedia

A More Perfect Union (online exhibition) http://americanhistory.si.edu/perfectunion/non-flash/index.html

Far and Away PN1997.F34 1992 (available at Non-print Media Services, Hornbake Library)

A Raisin in the Sun PN1997.R2 1999 (available at Non-print Media Services, Hornbake Library)

Hoop Dreams GV884.H657 1995 (available at Non-print Media Services, Hornbake Library)

Exhibits/Activities:

"A More Perfect Union" (permanent exhibition, American History Museum) examines the events surrounding Japanese American internment during World War II.

"Field to Factory" (permanent exhibition, American History Museum) interprets the complexities and effects of the Great Migration, a vast movement of African Americans from the South to the North between 1915 and 1940.

I, Too Sing America (performance, Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts)