For step 3 of your reflexive research project you will explore social science sources relevant to your ethnicity, particularly the development of its American status.
What were some of the main events that affected individuals of your ethnicity over time? What were the outcomes of these events?
In what ways did these events contribute to your ethnicity’s status in America at the time that they occurred?
What are some lasting influences of these events on this ethnic group in American today?
How do these events shape your own conceptualization of your ethnicity?
If you chose to address more than one ethnicity, continue to compare and contrast.
Resources for this Step:
Our focus this step is Social Science. Review the disciplinary guide about social sceince methods and principles before choosing your sources.
You must use 4 – 5 documents that use social science methods, such as data analysis, ethnography (this is where oral history and social science overlap) to identify patterns that affect individuals and groups. You can choose from Working, National Archives, the US Census Bureau, and/or another creditable archive or database of records about work life, income, and policies that affected laborers.
You must use 1 secondary source, that is, a contemporary essay, article, or video on a particular issue or event. It can be from the course material or the library, or you can find one online. If the latter, check Evaluating Web Pages. to assure you are using a credible source.
Cite Natives and Strangers. You may refer to sections about a particular ethnicity, event, or issue.
How the Other Half Lives (pp. 24-27)
We Do Not Understand Foreigners
Aliquippa: The Company Town and Contested Power in the Construction of Law (pp. 671-676))
The Triple Melting Pot
Culture of Poverty
Employed persons by Occupation, Sex, Race, and Ethnicity
Article: Wealth Gap Between Whites and Blacks
Working: Introduction; Roberto Acuna (farm worker); Joe and Susie Haynes (deep miner and his wife); Phil Stallings (spot-welder); Jack Spiegel (organizer); Alice Washington (order filler, shoe factory); David Reed Glover (stockbroker); Larry Ross (ex-president of conglomerate); Carmelita Lester (practical nurse in old people’s home)
M3 Content Guide: Follow the Money
M3 Disciplinary Guide: Social Sciences
View/Listen
Drill ye Tarriers Drill
Organizing America
Where Do You Stand?
The Disturbing History of the Suburbs
Richard Rothstein, on Fresh Air: How Ghettos were Legislated into Existence
Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island
Lecture Excerpt: The Game is Rigged
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