Workforce Diversity
Summer 2002
A3. Individual Presentation Topics – 50 Points
Each student will be responsible for selecting an
individual topic (partial list below) and reading, summarizing and presenting
the topic to the class. Your assignment
is to become the subject expert on this reading and to teach it to the class.
Please provide each class member a written summary in bullet form, followed by
an oral presentation to the entire class.
Unit A Topics.
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Readings
are from “A Different Mirror, A History of Multicultural America,”
Ronald Takaki, Little, Brown and Co.,1993.
Available in paperback and on reserve in the library. |
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Date |
Topic |
Student |
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June 4 |
Chapter 2. The “Tempest” in the Wilderness: The Racialization
of Savagery |
Shawn Bookout |
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June 6 |
Chapter 3. The “Giddy Multitude”: The Hidden
Origins of Slavery |
No Speaker |
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June 6 |
Chapter 4. Toward the Stony Mountains: From
Removal to Reservation |
No Speaker |
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June 11 |
Chapter 5. No More Peck o’ Corn: Slavery and Its
Discontents |
Charles McNair |
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June 11 |
Chapter 6. Emigrants from Erin: Ethnicity and
Class within White America |
Jim Reiner |
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June 13 |
Chapter 7. Foreigners in Their Native Land: Manifest
Destiny in the Southwest |
Cindy Ayon |
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June 13 |
Chapter 8. Search for Gold Mountain: Strangers
from a Pacific Shore |
Nhu Vo |
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Readings are from “White Privilege.” |
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Date |
Topic |
Student |
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June 20 |
Part One. Whiteness: The Power of Invisibility,
including Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for Part One |
Yer Xiong |
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June 25 |
Part Two, Chapters 1-3. Whiteness: The Power of The
Past, including Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for Part Two |
Tammy Sack |
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June 25 |
Part Two, Chapter 4. Whiteness: The Power of the
Past, including Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for Part Two |
Rosalie Branstetter |
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June 27 |
Part Three. Whiteness: The Power of Privilege,
including Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for Part Three |
Marc Scott |
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July 2 |
Part Four: Whiteness: The Power of Privilege,
including Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion for Part Four |
Scott Gentry |
Note: This is all the available individual topics. There
will not be any Unit C individual topics.