Sylabus
1.Introduction, assignments
Presentation topics assigned 2.Race, Nation, and Citizenship at the turn of the century
The African-Americans, Native Americans 3. Immigrants for the Industrial Age
"Old" and "New" Ethnic Groups 4.The Imperial Republic 5.Ethnic Emergence and Reaction, 1901-1929 6.Immigrant Restriction 7. Race and Art: Harlem Renaissance 8. Race Riots 9. New Ethnic Politics
Beginnings of a Cosmopolitan Culture, Conceptions of Race, Ethnicity, and American Identity 10. Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 1930-1964
Changing Meaning of Race 11. Racial and Ethnic Relations in America, 1965-2000
Yellow, Black, Red and Brown Power Movements 12. Review 13. Final test
Anotace
A survey of the historical and the contemporary experiences of American Indians, Asians, African-Americans, and Hispanics in the United States, and a study of immigration and post-immigration experiences of ethnic groups which contributed to the development of the US and the US "American."