Week Two Assignment: Cultural Pluralism Photo Assignment and Essay Hide Assignment Information Instructions Each student will take a photograph (take or use one of your own, don’t download from the Internet) that represents ONE aspect of her or his ethnic ancestry…or if you prefer a spouse, a significant other, or a good friend. This can be a photograph of a family member, a place, an artifact, a document (such as naturalized citizen papers, visa, Green Card, original passport, etc.) Write 350-400 words about the photo. Due Week Two, Tuesday, before midnight (100 points,15% of grade).This is a formal essay and needs a cover page with your name, course number, and the assignment title. Required Parameters: Your essay needs a title; center above the body of the essay. Date and label the photograph (when taken, who and what is in it). Identify the ethnic ancestry aspect (e.g., Italian American, African American, Filipino American, Mexican American, Lakota Indian, Jewish, etc). Explain why the image is important for understanding the ethnicity. The personal voice “I” is acceptable and expected in this assignment. The Looking Glass Self (Charles Horton Cooley): In this course, the symbolic significance of the mirror is emphasized (A Different Mirror). How does the content of the photo ‘reflect’ this ethnicity? How have you incorporated that into your sense of self and identity? What kind of reflections are mirrored back to you from the society at large or particular parts of society? Use ONE of the following terms from lecture notes to explain the origin of the ancestry: voluntary immigrant, involuntary immigrant, internal colonization, or indigenous people. Explain how the term applies to the individual or individuals in the photograph. Using “Table 2 from the US Census: Persons Obtaining Legal Permanent Resident Status by Region,” identify peak periods of immigration to the USA of the identified ancestry group in the past and present. During what period did the family immigrate? (If the chosen ancestry aspect is indigenous people, identity tribal identity and whether there are still members of the family who live in a community of indigenous people (e.g., reservation, village in Hawaii or Samoa). Are family traditions maintained from this aspect of your ethnic ancestry? Explain. Paste the image and paragraph in one Word document. (SafeAssign will analyze the photo and the essay, so both these must be original. Review the NU Academic Integrity policy. – PDF Document (213 KB) Sources: Textbook https://www.academia.edu/43188269/A_Different_Mirror_A_History_Of_Multicultural_America YouTube videos: The History of Slavery In America (part 1 of 3) (10 min) Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color (16 min) Stuart Hall: Race as a Floating Signifier (7 min) The Trail of Tears: They Knew It Was Wrong (16 min) American Civil War | History of the United States | 1861-1865 | Documentary (29 min) Week Two Reading Week Two Lecture 3 Takaki: “The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom,” pp. 75-78. Chapter . 3: “The Hidden Origins of Slavery.” Chapter. 5: “‘No More Peck o’Corn’: Slavery and Its Discontents.” Chapter 13: “To ‘the Land of Hope’: Blacks in Urban North.” Martin Luther King: “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Martin Luther King, 1963 https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html Week Two Lecture 4 – PDF Document (992 KB) Takaki: Chapter 4, “Toward ‘the Stony Mountains’: From Removal to Reservation.” “The End of the Frontier,” pp. 209-213. Chapter. 9, “The Indian Question”: From Reservation to Reorganization.” Review photo assignment, including the PDF attached to the assignment: Table 2 from the US Census: Persons Obtaining Legal Permanent Resident Status by Region Review US Census 2020 race and ethnicity data–compiled numbers and compare to charts that quantify percentages in Lecture 4. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2010s-national-detail.html https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/08/2020-united-states-population-more-racially-ethnically-diverse-than-2010.html link?? Week Two Lecture 5
