Sociology 4949: Outline--Week 12

I. Civil Rights movement as a model and inspiration to other race and ethnic groups in the 1960s and 1970s

A. Pan-Asian movement: remember Bernard Chin, Asian Studies on campuses, beginning at Berkeley

B American Indian Movement (AIM); remember video, "Spirit of Crazy Horse"

C Chicano Movement

II. Video: "Chicano: the Struggle in the Fields"

A. By the 1960s and 1970s (and certainly by 2009), most Chicanos lived in urban areas. In addition, after the 1970s, the farmworkers unionization movement lost ground dramatically (see "Promise Unfulfilled"). So what was the long-term significance of the United Farmworkers movement? What role did it play in the creation of a broader Chicano civil rights movement?

Chicano!: History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

Takaki, p. 426: "The face of our cultural future can be found on the western edge of our continent. 'California, and especially Los Angeles, a gateway to both Asia and Latin America,' Carlos Fuentes observed, poses the universal question of the coming century: How do we deal with the Other?'"

El Teatro Campesino

Census Bureau stats for 2003: High school graduation rates reach all-time high (No Child Left Behind... Rod Paige as Superintendent of Schools in Houston and then Secretary of Education under George W. Bush).

The high school graduation rate for American Indian students in 2001 was 54% (Education Working Paper, September, 2003. Manhattan Institute for Policy Research).

III. Groups: Lui et al: Social policy and inequality (bring discussion question on the reading assignment and share with your groups)

Social policy and welfare reform