PowerPoints – Race and Ethnicity

Here are the two PowerPoint presentations from class regarding ethnicity and race

PowerPoint #1 – Race and Ethnicity (Monday Feb 16)

PowerPoint #2 – Inequality (Friday Feb 20)

Class Fri Feb 20 – Video

This is the short video clip that we discussed in class on Friday Feb 20.

Article on White Privilege

Some of you might like to read the full text of Peggy McIntosh’s article, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

If I can find the text or recording of her presentation at UMD several years ago, I will post a link here for that as well.

Missed Classes

Reasons Famous People Gave

I’m always glad when students let me know that they’re missing class.  I care about what’s going on in your lives, and it helps me to plan for class.

While participation and preparation contribute to your grade in this class, each of you decides for yourself if missing class is unavoidable and necessary.   Each student will have 3 low or missed quiz scores dropped from the grading procedure to allow for the impact of minor illness or other events.

Recently, I’ve been getting messages that close with “let me know what I will miss /missed” or “tell me what I need to do to make up the class.”

Unfortunately, it’s not possible for me to do this for you.

On the days that you have to miss class, for whatever reason, it is your responsibility

• to arrange for someone to take notes,
• to get someone to pick up any handouts,
• to have someone convey announcements about schedule changes,
• in turn in any papers or materials that are due.

I do try to post information on this blog – not only for those who miss class, but to make it handy for you to verify your notes or check the schedule if you don’t have it with you. That’s my best contribution to helping those who must miss class.

So – when you send me the message to let me know you won’t be in class, I encourage you to also e-mail a friend in the class to make arrangements for finding out what happened.

In the rare situations in which a student has an extended serious illness or family situation, I do my best to help the student to make and carry out plans to get caught up with the material.

The syllabus policy, stated above, relates to the much more common situation of minor illnesses and the other affairs of daily life.

Learning Objectives – Chapter 6

After studying Chapter 6, you should understand the following:

1. In what ways is the United States becoming increasingly diverse?
2. What are current trends in immigration to the United States?
3. What is the difference in the terms race, ethnicity, and minority group?
4. What is racial prejudice, racial discrimination, and racism?
5. About what proportion of the U.S. population is Hispanic? African-American? Asian? Native American?  Is the proportion of each group growing or shrinking?
6. What are some of the salient characteristics of each of these groups, according to recent data and research?
7. How does race and ethnicity influence family relationships?
8. (From class discussion) What is meant by privilege, and what are some examples?

PowerPoint – Social Class

PowerPoint from class presentation on Social Class

Constructing Masculinity

PowerPoint presentation from class on Friday6 February.

Constructing Femininity – Class presentation/discussion