Asian Americans

 Model minority  Middleman minority  Media invisibility  Cultural challenges  Panethnicity Some theories

 Indian, Bangledeshi, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Malaysian, Nepalese, Okinawan, Pakistani, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Polynesian, Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Tahitian, Micronesian, Fijian, Papua New Guinean Diversity issues

African Americans

 Slavery is for life  Slavery is inherited  Slaves were considered property  Slaves do not have rights  Slaves are to be controlled Slave codes

 Abolitionists  Underground railroad  Passive resistance  1860 emancipation proclamation  1890s Jim Crow laws Resistance and subjugation

 Booker T. Washington  Born a slave, later led the Tuskegee Institute  Philosophy of accomodating to whites  WEB DuBois  Born in Massachusetts, later PhD from Harvard  Theory of “talented tenth”  1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Black leadership

 Located across the United States  Mostly abolished after civil rights movement Sundown towns

 Nation of Islam movement  1954 Desegregation of public schools  1955 Rosa Parks and Dr. MLK Jr.  Civil disobedience  Black Power movement  Black Panther party 1966  American Society of Muslims 1975  Nation of Islam II 1977 Civil rights movements

Hispanic Americans

 End of Mexican American war 1848  Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California become part of U.S.  Immigration issues and current events Historical view

 La Raza Cosmica  Machismo and marianismo  Dignidad Cultural beliefs

 East vs. West  Panethnicity 24%  Cuban Americans in Miami  “No soy Hispano, soy Cubano.”  Color gradients vs. social class Hispanic or Latino?

 Indigenous people were Taino Indians  First invaded by Spain (1493), then the U.S. (1898)  Commonwealth status 1948  Legal U.S. citizens  Elect own governor  Cannot vote for U.S. president  Still follow all federal laws Puerto Ricans

Muslim and Arab Americans

 Defined by membership League of Arab States  Unified by Arabic language  Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen  Not all muslim faith  Middle East term ambiguous Arab Americans

 Koran “There can be no compulsion in religion.”  Prophet Muhammad  Sunnis and Shi’is (Shiites)  Sunni as majority  Prophets  Fundamentalism and jihad Muslim Americans

 HIJAB  PERSONAL EXPRESSION OR OPPRESSION?  COMPARISON TO CHRISTIANS FAMILY LIFE AND GENDER ISSUES

 Functionalist  Conflict  Interactionist Sociological views

Native Americans

 Over 100 million people north of Mexico  700 or more different languages  Hunter/gatherer culture  Communal culture Before European invasion

 Superior weapons  Measles, smallpox, influenza  Numbers fell to 10 million by 1500  1800 population was 600,000  1900 was 250,000 European invasion

 Gold rush in California  Bureau of Indian Affairs 1824  Indian Removal Act of 1830  Trail of tears  Reservations established Treaties and warfare

 Lawsuits against the government  Pan-Indian identity  National Congress of American Indians 1944  American Indian Movement 1968  Fish-ins  Sovereignty Resistance and Action

The Oneida nation

 Sports mascots, team names  Casinos  Education challenges  Health care challenges  Environmental challenges  Environmental racism and justice Towards the future