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The Suppression Of Diversity, Adrian J. Lottie, Phyllis A. Clemens Noda
The Suppression Of Diversity, Adrian J. Lottie, Phyllis A. Clemens Noda
Ethnic Studies Review
Is it a systematic strategy or a mutation of millennial ferver that drives the escalating challenges to the civil rights of this nation's racial, linguistic, and national origin minorities? Increasing juridical, legislative, and popular assaults on affirmative action policies coupled with the sometimes less heralded emergence of a de facto U.S. language policy are sweeping through the states. These activities draw on a consistent repertoire of approaches from the invocation of the very language and concepts of the civil rights movement to the isolationist "buzz-words" of early twentieth century advocates of "Americanization." In an effort to legitimize their efforts this …
Centering Race And Ethnicity- Related Issues In Social Sciences Curricula, Joseph F. Sheley
Centering Race And Ethnicity- Related Issues In Social Sciences Curricula, Joseph F. Sheley
Ethnic Studies Review
A 2002 review of the course requirements and electives of Economics, History, Political Science, and Sociology programs in thirty randomly selected state and private, "doctoral-level" and "masters-level" institutions produced 201 courses relating to the study of race-and ethnic-related issues. Only two courses (History offerings on a single campus) were required for completion of a major. While some departments offered "concentrations" with mandated content, the concentrations themselves were elective. Diversity in America today is a truly important component of social (re)organization and change and, thus, a major source of social friction. Why is it, then, that students, those majoring in the …