Sociology 5: Ethnicity and Ethnic Relations in America
This is a multidisciplinary study of ethnicity (belonging to an ethnic group) and ethnic group relations in the United States from an historical and sociological perspective. It emphasizes a challenging field of study with the dynamics of emergence, ethnocentrism, change, marginality and acculturation of major ethnic groups in the United States. The immense diversity of these groups will be explored and analyzed through the methodology of recent sociological research. This course is designed to meet an ethnic studies requirement. (MJC SOCIO 150)
Transfer: UC/CSU. IGETC 4C, 4J; CSU-GE D0, D3. C-ID: SOCI 150
Sociology 5: Syllabus
Sociology 5: Exam Questions
Sociology 5: Highly Recommended Sources
SOCIOLOGY 5 RESOURCES:
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WEB LINKS
Cahokia: America's Lost City By Glenn Hodges
Confronting Evil: Genocide in Rwanda (featuring Alison Des Forges)
442 Film
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Go For Broke - National Education Center
How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era By Tanvi Misra (NPR)
Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
Migration Policy Institute
Moving Photographs of Japanese American Internees, Then and Now Photographs By Paul Kitagaki Jr. (Mother Jones)
National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Museum of the American Indian
Payments Start For N.C. Eugenics Victims, But Many Won't Qualify By Eric Mennel (NPR)
Share of Immigrants in U.S. Nears Highs of Early 20th Century, Report Finds By Julia Preston (The New York Times)
Tenement Museum - New York City
The Supreme Court Ruling That Led To 70,000 Forced Sterilizations, Interview with author Adam Cohen (NPR)