What kinds of differences exist within that set of immigrants?

part 1-

(Reading material Latinos — Read Olson and Beal, pp. 273-281.)

Several different ethnic groups have arrived in the U. S. since 1945. specify what forces are driving them to the U. S., and why? (about Latinos — Central Americans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans)

What kinds of differences exist within that set of immigrants? How might these differences affect their relationships with each other and with the larger American society? What are their similarities?

1. What are some of the signs that racial tensions still exist in the U. S.? (Use the documents)
2. Why have Native Americans continued to press for self-determination? How successful have they been, and why?
3. Why has acculturation occurred over time to ethnic groups? What institutions promote acculturation?
4. Why has ethnicity survived in the U. S.? What remnants of ethnicity have persisted, and why?
5. CONCLUSION: (of above answers)

With the continued issues regarding immigration, ethnicity, race, and defining the American identity (who can be a citizen, who is recognized as a citizen, what does an American look like), is “cultural pluralism” more of a reality today? Why or why not? How does one reconcile the desire for equality while maintaining one’s ethnic identity? Can cultural pluralism and integration/assimilation co-exist?

part 2-

(reading material: Olson and Beal, pp. 246-257, 263-274, 315-318;

Google drive folder: Brown v. Board of Education

READ: Olson and Beal, pp. 257-262, 265-272, 284-289, 296-297;

Google folder: Stokely Carmichael, Manifesto of Chicano; Declaration of Asian Americans; Indians of All Tribes; Native Americans Buy Montana; Aztlan.

1. For African Americans, who were their civil rights leaders and what were the goals of the movement? What issues did they seek to tackle?
2. What was Black Power (be sure to include Stokely Carmichael on Canvas)? Why did Black Power appear? What were some of its ideas and goals?
3. Why did Mexican Americans become a self-conscious visible ethnic community? What differences marked the various subcommunities? What forces united them?
4. What was Aztlan? Why did a Chicano identity emerge? (use the Canvas documents)
5. What sources provoked an Asian American identity [also see Asian American Political Alliance document]?
6. How did World War II alter Native American circumstances? What was the Termination Program, and how did it affect natives? How did natives seek to deal with it? Why did a pan-Indian ethnic identity develop?
7. What specific documents support the idea that ethnic consciousness and nationalism was on the rise in the 1960s and 1970s, and beyond?

CONCLUSION (of above answers):

Considering the goals of the Civil Rights Movement to achieve the end of segregation by law (which the leaders assumed would lead to integration and assimilation) and the subsequent rise of ethnic nationalism (Black Power, Chicano movement, Asian American movement, and the Native American movement) did a stronger “cultural pluralism” result than had existed in the past? Why or why not?