Race and Ethnic Relations 03-04

UNIT 1. Challenges and Opportunities of Race and Ethnic Relations 1. Coming to America, Chitra Ragavan, U.S. News & World Report , February 18, 2002 Chitra Ravagan's poignant account of the current, stressful experiences of new immigrants, and her description of the institutional burdens on the capacity of the INS to be a welcome wagon and police agency in the post-9/11 era, expose the center-most dilemma of America as an immigrant-receiving country during a period of armed crisis. 2. New Leaders, New Values, Richard Louv, Ford Foundation Report , Winter 2002 Richard Louv's accounts of the patchwork quilt of race and ethnic situations and the development of partnerships and collaborations suggest the challenges and the achievements of refreshing the civil society at its grassroots. 3. Integrated People, Integrated Places, D'Vera Cohn, Washington Post , July 29, 2002 D'Vera Cohn reviews the new residential patterns now measurable owing to congressional mandates and the Office of Management and Budget's authorization of data collection options used for the first time in the 2000 census. The tabulation of responses by self-selected, multiracial persons reveals a new geographical dimension and new personal index of integration in America. 4. Revival for a Black Enclave in Pittsburgh, Lynette Clemetson, New York Times , August 9, 2002 This longitudinal demographic account profiles the contemporary recovery process of a viable urban community. The Hill in Pittsburgh provides a community-based window into a new form of group-centered social cohesion and new approaches to metropolitan pluralism that transcend the previous paradigm. 5. The New Nebraskans, Suzanne Charle, Ford Foundation Report , Winter 2002 This article illustrates the impact of immigration and technology that has transformed rural America, and it reveals the attendant public choice for new cultural coalitions and the application of economic and legal strategies in pursuit of personal and community well-being. 6. In Philadelphia, a MOVE Alert Stirs Echoes of '85 Showdown, Robert Strauss, Washington Post , September 20, 2002 This report on the current activities of MOVE, an organization whose members adopted the surname Africa, reviews the history of truly turbulent group relationships and crisis in Philadelphia that resulted in serious violence and established MOVE as a symbol of minority group extremism. UNIT 2. American Demography: Pieces of the Ambiguous Legacies Part A. Colonial Foundations 7. Migrations to the Thirteen British North American Colonies, 17701775: New Estimates, Aaron Fogleman, Journal of Interdisciplinary History , Spring 1992 Aaron Fogleman, using a new method, attempts to document the ethnic texture of immigration to America in the eighteenth century. He adds important information to earlier efforts at understanding the dimensions of colonial pluralism. Part B. Slavery, Segregation and Racialism 8. The Enduring Legacy of the South's Civil War Victory, David Brion Davis, New York Times , August 26, 2001 This article addresses the ongoing presence of slavery and racism in the social/legal practices of Southern culture. This leftover from the preCivil War era extends into the twentieth century under the guise of exclusion and claims for redress and reparKromkowski, John A. is the author of 'Race and Ethnic Relations 03-04', published 2003 under ISBN 9780072838138 and ISBN 0072838132.