Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies Book

	Preface
Pt. 1	Goals, Concepts, and Instructional Planning	1
1	The Multicultural Curriculum: Rationale, Trends, and Goals	3
	The Persistence of Ethnicity in American Society	3
	The Complexity of Ethnicity in American Society	9
	Ethnicity and Individuals	10
	Ethnic Studies: Assumptions and Practices	12
	Ethnic and Cultural Studies: A Process of Curriculum Reform	17
2	Developing a Multicultural Curriculum	32
	The Interdisciplinary - Conceptual Approach	32
	Studying Culture: An Example of the Interdisciplinary - Conceptual Approach	33
	Incorporating Elements from Science and Mathematics into the Multicultural Curriculum	33
	The Forms of Knowledge	37
	An Effective Multicultural Curriculum	49
3	Key Concepts for the Multicultural Curriculum	55
	Criteria for Selecting Interdisciplinary Concepts	55
	Interdisciplinary Concepts	58
	The Movement of Ethnic Groups	82
4	Planning the Multicultural Curriculum	91
	Identifying Key Concepts and Organizing Generalizations	91
	Identifying Intermediate-Level Generalizations	92
	Identifying Low-Level Generalizations	96
	Concepts and Generalizations in the Multicultural Curriculum	97
	Teaching Strategies and Materials	99
	The Value Component of the Multicultural Curriculum	100
	Approaches to Moral Education	103
	a Value Inquiry Model	106
	Providing Opportunities for Personal, Social, and Civic Action	108
	Finding Students Resources	109
	Guidelines for Evaluating and Selecting Multicultural Materials	111
Pt. 2	The First Americans and African Americans: Concepts and Strategies	121
5	American Indians: Concepts, Strategies, and Materials	123
	Early Life in the Americas	124
	The Westward Journeys	134
	American Indians and Federal Policy	137
	Self-Determination and the Challenge to Termination	139
	Fishing Rights and Land Claims	140
	American Indians Today	141
6	Native Hawai'ians: Concepts, Strategies, and Materials	160
	Native Hawai'ians: Before European Contact	161
	European Contact	163
	Native Hawai'ians Today	169
7	African Americans: Concepts, Strategies, and Materials	187
	African Explorers in America	187
	The Slave Trade	191
	The Colonization Movement	197
	The Civil War and Reconstruction	199
	World War I	204
	Organizations	204
	World War II and the Years After	205
	The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s	207
Pt. 3	European Americans: Concepts and Strategies	233
8	European Ethnic Groups: Concepts, Strategies, and Materials	235
	Spaniards in the Americas	240
	More Europeans Come to America	241
	The Southern and Eastern European Immigrants	247
	European Ethnic Groups in U.S. Society	253
	The New Ethnicity	254
	White Ethnic Groups Today: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity?	256
9	Jewish Americans: Concepts, Strategies, and Materials	273
	Historical Roots	274
	The American Revolution	278
	German-Jewish Immigration	280
	The New Immigration	285
	The Interwar Period	286
	Jewish Americans Today	288
Pt. 4	Hispanic Americans: Concepts and Strategies	305
	Central and South Americans	305
	Demographic Characteristics of Hispanics	306
	Diversity among Hispanics	306
10	Mexican Americans: Concepts, Strategies, and Materials	311
	The Spanish Conquest	313
	The Mexican American War	318
	North from Mexico	320
	Violence and Race Riots	323
	The Chicano Movement	324
	The Militant Chicano Movement	326
	Mexican Americans Today	327
11	Puerto Ricans in the United States: Concepts, Strategies, and Materials	345
	The Island Background	347
	United States Rule	351
	The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico	353
	Life on the Mainland	356
	The Puerto Rican Mainland Community	360
	The Future	362
12	Cuban Americans: Concepts, Strategies, and Materials	376
	Cuban Immigrants to the United States	378
	Life in Cuba	381
	Departure	384
	The Mariel Immigrants of 1980	385
	The Cuban Rafters of 1994	387
	The Case of Elian Gonzalez	388
	Adaptation to Life in the United States	389
	The Second Generation	393
	Cuban Americans Today	394
Pt. 5	Asian Americans and Arab Americans: Concepts and Strategies	405
13	Asian Americans: Concepts, Strategies, and Materials	407
	Problems with the Model Minority Concept	407
	Rapid Increases in the Asian American Population	408
	Korean Americans	409
	Asian Indian and Pakistani Immigrants	410
	Southeast Asian Americans	410
	Asian Americans: A Diverse Group	411
	The Chinese, Japanese, and Filipino Americans: Overview	412
	Chinese Americans	414
	Japanese Americans	421
	Filipino Americans	430
14	Arab Americans: Concepts, Strategies, and Materials	461
	Who Is an Arab?	462
	Arabs in History: Their Links to the West	464
	Early Arab Immigration to the United States	464
	Assimilation and the Effects of Immigration: Restrictions on the Arab American Community	469
	The Post-1965 Immigrants	470
	Muslims in America	471
	Changing Patterns of Assimilation	473
	Anti-Arab Stereotyping	473
	Anti-Arab Hate Crimes	475
	New Arab American Activism: The Maturing of an Ethnic Community	476
	The Contributions of Arab Americans to American Life	478
	Arab Americans Today	479
App. A	Ethnic Groups in U.S. History: A Chronology of Key Events	491
App. B	Internet Resources for Teaching about Ethnic and Cultural Diversity	499
App. C	Videotapes and CD-ROMs on Multicultural Education and U.S. Ethnic Groups	515
App. D	The Carter G. Woodson Award Books	521
App. E	Twenty Classic and Landmark Books in Ethnic Literature	523
	Index	525