09/05/2007
Chapter #3 Multiculural Education
Ethnicity and Race
Diversity maximizes the number of conflicts within a society - evolution says those conflicts make us stronger.
Objectives: With the completion of textbook chapter #2 the participant will be able to
show evidence of understanding the major concepts related to Ethnicity and Race
show evidence of having a background of the five largest racial/ethnic minority groups in the United States from a historical perspective
desribe differences and similarities in the immigration patters of Africans, Asians, Central Americans, Euorpeans and South Americans during the past four centuries
distinguish between prejuice and discrimination and describe their impact on groups in the US
show evidence of being receptive to learning about other cultures.
present or discuss changes in the school curriculum that have been used to extend the learning of students to include topics that go beyond the dominant culture
describe factors that cause members of oppressed groups to view ethnicity differently from dominant groups
list ways in which an educator should be able to use ethnicity in the classroom
contrast ethnic studies, ethnocentric education and multiethnic education and list the advantages of each
accept responsibility for confronting his/her values as related to race and ethnicity and be willing to modify personal values that embrace the idea that all people and all cultures have value begin to be able to identify "hate groups" Process:
- Video: What is Race?
- Video: The German Americans
- Lecture
Textbook:
New Words/Concetps: Institutional discrimination, ethnicity, race, nation, First Americans, nativism, 5 pan-ethnic and racial groups in America, prejudice, discrimination, racism, hate groups, ethnocentric, Brown vs Board of Education, anti-Semitism, xenophobic, Jim Crow. [Know the etymology of the following: ethnicity, race, nation, prejudice]
"Our present immigration laws are unsatisfactory…all persons should be excluded who are below a certain level of economic fitness…" —Theodore Roosevelt
The U.S. admits almost 1,000,000 legal aliens annually, the highest sustained rate in our history For every 100 illegal aliens who find jobs in the US., 65 American workers are displaced Over the last 30 years, Congress has tripled legal immigration levels Uncontrolled immigration will drive the U.S. population from 270 million today to 392 million by 2050 Between 1997 and 2006, the projected total net cost to taxpayers for immigration will be $865.98 Billion.
- What do you think.... make sense to you? Are there any benefits to the US to continue immigrants to come to the US?
Read And Consider: The country of Iraq has been giving the world some major problems the past several years. A variety of solutions have been made as to how to resolve the problems brought about by that country. One novel idea is
" We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity "
What do you think? Is this solution one that you would support? What one word would you use to describe the person who made the above statement? This one word is listed in the above chapter concepts.
Illegal Immigrants. What should we do?
How does the following article compare to your views of the world? Is there anything that you agree with or disagree with? What is racism? Is bigotry and racism just a White Thing? Is there anything in the article that causes to have some suspicion? How do you begin to back-track with this article? Read about Stormfront Did you read the Stormfront Childen's Page? What do you think?
- SWC : About Simon Wiesenthal Who is Simon Wiesenthal? What is the purpose of the Wiesenthal Center?
- Images in Action
- Historical and modern day images often contain hidden messages about us, about others and about our world. These subtle lessons lie just beneath the surface. In order to see them, we must replace passive consumption of images with critical analysis. Take a look at some images that we think that are true.... but are they? Which images have a different connotation than what you thought they had?
- Personal Narratives-- Roots. Scan four of the roots papers done by students in a southern New York university. Select the one narrative that most moved you in terms of the obstacles that were overcome or how how a person in the narrative is very or very different to you life. Write a reflection paper that relates to the above points.
- Immigration Today... Chapter #3 Project
- SPRING 2004... Read & REFLECT but No Written Paper
What do you think? Are would be immigrants from Mexico and Central America being deported because they are not WASP? Why is the U.S. government so intent on deporting people from Mexico and Central America? [Use a map of Mexico and locate each of the cities listed below] READ AND REFLECT.. NO WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT
Far-flung deportations draw fire
September 2003
By MARK STEVENSON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Migrants caught in the deserts of Arizona are being put on planes by the U.S. Border Patrol and deported hundreds of miles away along Texas’ southern border, in many cases to cities in Mexico they’ve never seen.
U.S. officials say deporting migrants from Texas - instead of at the border where they crossed - reduces repeat attempts and cuts migrants’ links to the smuggling networks in Arizona, the most popular route for undocumented crossings.
The pilot program has caused anger on the Mexican side, where town officials say they are ill equipped for the influx of deportees.
‘‘We don’t like Juarez being used as a point for massive deportations,’’ city spokesman Ricardo Chavez said. ‘‘The city is not prepared to deal with this, and there is already a shortage of jobs here. It’s a bad situation. People are sleeping in parks and under bridges.’’
The program has created a class of unwanted people, ejected from the U.S. side of the border to the Mexican cities of Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and Matamoros. Once they are in Mexico, city officials often hustle the migrants aboard public buses, give them a free meal and rush them to the nearest terminal with a bus ticket out of town. ‘‘They shouldn’t deport us so far away, in places where we don’t know anybody,’’ said Cesar Pinacho, 26, a cannery worker who has slept in a Ciudad Juarez park and the yard of a nearby house since he was deported several days ago.
The pilot program started Sept. 8 and is set to end Tuesday, but U.S. officials say they may revive it because they consider it a success.
It has taken more than 3,000 migrants from the Arizona desert, where authorities were recording roughly one migrant death per day, usually from dehydration or heat stroke.
Since the program started, only one person has died in the Arizona desert, said Border Patrol spokesman Mario Villareal, who added that the program has saved many other lives.
‘‘If you can’t take the danger out of the border, you can take the immigrant away from the danger,’’ Border Patrol spokesman Frank Amarillas said.
The migrants are placed aboard chartered flights to four cities along the more populated and better-guarded Texas border. More than 1,100 have been deported to Ciudad Juarez, swelling the normal flow of deportees by more than a third.
Smugglers in the Arizona desert often agree to try as many times as needed to get a migrant across. Some agree to receive payment once a migrant reaches a U.S. city, and deporting their clients so far away hurts their income.
U.S. officials say only a fraction of those deported through the program are caught trying to sneak across the border again in Texas, and total detentions in the Arizona desert fell 19 percent after the program started.
Returning to the Arizona border from Texas is difficult and costly because the region in between is desolate, with few roads or cities.
The Mexican government has protested the U.S. practice of handcuffing migrants with a chain that wraps around their waists during the airplane ride.
‘‘If they have to deport us, they shouldn’t treat us like criminals,’’ said Martin Romero, 38, a field worker from Durango. ‘‘It’s humiliating. We’re just working people.’’
Responding to other concerns about the program, the Border Patrol has halted the deportation of female migrants to Ciudad Juarez, a city plagued by a series of slayings of young women over the past decade.
The patrol also has tried to deport relatives through the same city, after complaints that families were split up and had a hard time finding each other on the Mexican side.
While one of the biggest complaints is the dislocation caused by the long-distance deportations, the Mexican government rejected a U.S. offer to deport undocumented migrants back to their hometowns, at the U.S. government’s expense.
Mexican Assistant Foreign Secretary Enrique Berruga said a previous program that deported migrants home in the mid-1990s was abandoned because Mexicans objected to being flown home.
‘‘That kind of thing has been tried before,’’ Berruga said. ‘‘I don’t think anything has changed to expect any different results this time.’’
There are signs, however, that Mexico is cooperating with U.S. efforts. Mexican officials have been hesitant to give returning migrants free bus tickets to one of the destinations they requested most - Agua Prieta, the jumping-off point for undocumented trips across the Arizona desert.
Juventino Gonzalez, a 28-year-old dishwasher from Chimalhuacan, near Mexico City, was a repeat offender.
He and his friend were caught in Arizona last week after trudging seven hours through the desert. Deported through McAllen, Texas, they spent the last of their money to return to the Arizona desert and try again with the same smuggler - only to be caught and deported through El Paso, Texas, across from Ciudad Juarez.
‘‘Of course we’re going to try again. We can’t go home beaten and with empty hands,’’ he said, sitting in a public park and planning his next crossing. ‘‘We’re going to try and get ahead. All they are doing with this program is making our lives harder.’’
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