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businesses and law enforcement agencies about the diverse cultures of our American
citizenry in an era of community policing and global economy. It is imperative that every
business and law enforcement agencies in Washington State and beyond learn how to
deal with respect people of different faith, ethnicity, gender, etc., not only as citizens
of America, but as global citizens and human beings. After all, it was Ghandi who said
that, "the only race we have in the world is humanity." The sensitivity training is a twelve hour course/training on race-ethnic relations in a multicultural, multireligious, multiethnic and multiracial environment of America. This training enables us to understand the cultural sensitivity of American minority and majority, makes us to respect and honor our diversity, which is a source of strength and envy of the world on America. We must harness the potentials that our diversity brings, so that everyone of us would feel so belonged to our great and beautiful American society, especially our "Evergreen State."
RACE & ETHNIC RELATIONS IN AMERICA (Multicultural Issues)Course Objectives:
Text Book:
Course Contents:Introduction to some Basic Concepts1. Understanding Race & Ethnicity - Type of groups: racial. ethnic, gender, religious and other subordinate groups. The biological meaning of race and social construction of race 2. Prejudice: hate crimes, prejudice and discrimination, stereotypes, mass media and education; inter-group hostility, Arab Americans and American Muslims - A case study of emerging prejudice. 3. Discrimination - Understanding discrimination: total, and institutional discrimination; measuring and eliminating discrimination. Other topics are environmental justice and "Affirmative Action." Ethnic Stratification: Power & InequalityStratification Systems, dimensions of stratification, stratification & ideology, ethnic stratification systems, minority groups -types of minorities, ethnic minorities & dominant groups, middleman minorities, the relativity of dominant & minority status, origin of ethnic stratification, minority responses to stratification, the relationship between class and ethnicity Techniques of Dominance: prejudice & DiscriminationPrejudice, stereotypes, social distance, discrimination, individual discrimination, institutional discrimination, theories of prejudice and discrimination: psychological, normative and power-conflict theories, etc. Patterns of Ethnic Relations: Assimilation & PluralismConflict and order, assimilation: dimensions of assimilation, two theories of assimilation, factors affecting assimilation, assimilation as public policy, Pluralism: equalitarian and inequalitarian pluralism, factors affecting pluralism, the variability of ethnic relations, a typology of multiethnic societies, colonial and corporate pluralistic societies, etc. Ethnic Relations in Comparative PerspectiveSouth Africa: Society in Transition, white settlement, the British entrance, the nationalist ascendancy, ethnic stratification: the Whites, the Coloreds, the Asians, the Africans. Prejudice and discrimination: the dynamics of apartheid, apartheid and economic inequality, enforcement of apartheid: force, socialization to apartheid: ideology, forces of change: building a new society, change in the political system, the future prospects of South Africa. Foundations of the American Ethnic Hierarchy Ethnicity in the United States: Native & African AmericansThe Native Americans: Early European contacts; treaties & warfare; Reservation Life & Federal policies, Pan-Indianism - Native Americans today; The making of African Americans in a White America: Slavery & Slave Codes; African Americans & Africans; Challenge of Black Leadership & Policy of Accommodation; The Civil Rights Movement, Civil Disobedience & Struggle to Desegregate Schools - African Americans today Ethnicity in the United States: Hispanic & Asian AmericansHispanic Americans: Hispanic Identity: Cuban Americans, Central & South Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans; Immigrant experience, economic pictures, health care, education, family life, Political Organizations, etc.; Asian Americans: Growth & Diversity: Koreans, Hawaiians, Asian Indians, Chinese & Japanese Americans, etc., their family & religious lives, economic pictures, etc. Global Issues f Ethnic Conflict & ChangeThe global expansion of ethnic diversity, shifting patterns of immigration, immigration and ethnic change in Western Europe; the resurgence of ethnic nationalism: forms of ethnic nationalism, the breakup of Yugoslavia, the endurance of ethnic conflict and change, etc. Current & Future Issues of Race & Ethnicity in the United StatesThe continuing gap between Euro-Americans and racial-ethnic minorities, compensatory policies, the legal issues of "Affirmative Action," the policies of "Affirmative Action," the future of Affirmative Action;" Issues of new immigration: economic and social issues of the newest immigration, integration, revitalized "nativism," cultural assimilation or pluralism? competing goals, multiculturalism: the new pluralism, looking ahead Other topics that would be incorporated into the lectures include, but not limited to:Overcoming Exclusion: Women the Oppressed Majority; The Aged - A Social Minority; People with Disability; Gay & Lesbian in America; Gender Roles; Feminist Movement: the suffrage & women liberation movements; Sources of Discrimination: sexual harassment, economic picture, such as employment discrimination and wage-gap between women and men for the performing comparable functions; feminization of poverty & child-care & Housework; International Multiculturalism (Diversity) & Conflicts
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