lesson 2

An Interlocking Panethnicity: The Negotiation of Multiple Identities among Asian American Social Movement Leaders, Dana Y. Nakano

WRITING TOPIC:

What are ways to measure panethnic solidarity?

What are some of the mechanisms for creating an interlocking panethnicity?

Latino Racial Choices: The Effects of Skin Colour and Discrimination on Latinos and Latinas Racial Self-Identifications, Tanya Golash-Boza and William Darity, Jr.

WRITING TOPIC:

What impact does discrimination have on choosing a racial identity?

Do you think that money will ever be more important than skin color in the United State? Why or Why not?

Whiteness as an ‘Unmarked’ Cultural Category, Ruth Frankenberg

WRITING TOPIC:

Why is whiteness considered to be lacking diversity?

How would you describe the cultural content of whiteness?

REMINDER: Your responses to the writing prompts should be thorough, in-depth and include direct quotations or references to the readings. At LEAST TWO SUBSTANTIAL PARAGRAPHS ARE REQUIRED FOR EACH QUESTION.

• Your answers should be clear, concise, well-organized and contain a sufficient amount of information in order to make your point. Support your answers with details, examples and supporting ideas from the reading material.
• Your assignments will require creativity, critical thinking skills and self-reflection by applying what you are learning from the readings to your individual worlds. Since you cannot bring your “outside” worlds into the classroom, you will write about them.