ASB202 - Ethnic Relations in the United States

Legislators in Arizona decided to prohibit a culturally relevant course, so teachers pushed back and started a nationwide movement.

Horace Miner writes about the strange rituals that people in this “tribe” perform. The title is “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”, which may sound like a tribe, but with careful reading the real meaning can be found. The first thing that is noticed is the word “Nacirema”.

The following statement was adopted by the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association on May 17, 1998, acting on a draft prepared by a committee of representative American anthropologists. It does not reflect a consensus of all members of the AAA, as individuals vary in their approaches to the study of "race." We believe that it represents generally the contemporary thinking and scholarly positions of a majority of anthropologists.

Once page loads, the quiz will be found under heading for Human Variation.

"Race is so deeply embedded in our lives it appears to be the natural order of things. We most challenge that notion with all the power of our science and our society." - Yolanda Moses, Chair, RACE Project

What messages does our society give African American children about their value and worth as human beings?

In her documentary, A Girl Like Me, teen filmmaker Kiri Davis conducts interviews with her peers to explore the impact and consequences of these messages. She then reconducts Dr. Kenneth Clark's "doll test" with young African American children with sobering results.

“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group”

Why do so many white people find it extremely uncomfortable to talk about race? Setting out to make the next installment of our Op-Doc video series about race in America, we hoped to address that question. Because we live in New York, where there is no shortage of opinions, we didn’t think it would be too hard to find white people willing to speak publicly on this topic.

Research suggests that Cambodian students often endure conflicting ethnic stereotypes from larger society and their school and communities. We examine the ways in which Cambodian youth negotiated their ethnic identities in response to these stereotypes and argue that Cambodian
students adopted, rejected, and affirmed certain ethnic identities in relation to perceived advantages associated with different labels across varying school contexts

Phở or pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup consisting of broth, rice noodles called bánh phở, a few herbs, and meat, primarily made with either beef or chicken.

There are more than 300 million indigenous people, in virtually every region of the world, including the Sámi peoples of Scandinavia, the Maya of Guatemala, numerous tribal groups in the Amazonian rainforest, the Dalits in the mountains of Southern India, the San and Kwei of Southern Africa, Aboriginal people in Australia, and, of course the hundreds of Indigenous Peoples in Mexico, Central and South America, as well as here in what is now known as North America.

Taking the current record-setting numbers of global immigration, Suarez-Orozco focuses on the experiences and attitudes relating to assimilation and acculturation.

During the past half-century, 59 million immigrants have moved to the United States, making it the No. 1 immigrant destination on the planet.

Human rights reports and the highly publicized and targeted resettlement of Somali Bantu refugees in the United States served as catalysts for circulations and revealed a rather unknown subaltern population to the international community.

The Arab American Institute (AAI) released a new Zogby Analytics poll tracking American Attitudes toward Arabs and Muslims on Monday, December 21, 2015. Our polling shows that the persistent, negative attitudes toward these two communities continue, revealing a deep partisan divide.

The Times's deputy Metro editor, Michael Luo, wrote an open letter to the woman who told him to “go back to China.” Asian-Americans responded with stories of their own racist moments.

For generations, parents of black boys across the United States have rehearsed, dreaded and postponed “The Conversation.” But when their boys become teenagers, parents must choose whether or not to expose their sons to what it means to be a black man here. To keep him safe, they may have to tell the child they love that he risks being targeted by the police, simply because of the color of his skin. How should parents impart this information, while maintaining their child’s pride and sense of self? How does one teach a child to face dangerous racism and ask him to emerge unscathed?

We have come together in peace and prayer from the four Sacred directions to protect this gift of life, now and for the generations to come. If the “fossil foolish” industry is allowed to poison any more of our waterways, it will be environmental genocide.