Course Outline: Approved by the University of California to meet "g" requirements

FUSD Ethnic Studies Framework

Identity

1. Who am I? Who Decides? What dilemmas arise when others view us differently than we view ourselves?

2. How can we develop strength and a sense of empowerment from our cultural wealth?

3. Who am I and how does my understanding and use of my identities impact the self, community, and the environment?

4. How do our identities influence our choices and the choices available to us?

5. How can learning about our family and community history deepen our understanding of ourselves?

Newsela Core Readings for Identity: What is Social Identity?, Opinion: Intersectionality is all of Who I Am, Gender, Sex and Sexuality Explained, Study: Language Defines Nationality

History and Change

1. How does immigration/ migration affect the identities of individuals, communities, and nations?

2. How have cultures both changed and sustained over time and generations?

3. Whose stories have been told? Whose have been left out? 

4. How does the study of history from multiple perspectives help us better understand current movements to create a just and equitable society?

5. How has race been socially constructed and contested in the United States, in an ongoing struggle for power in society?

Newsela Core Readings for History and Change: Freedom Riders Marker in Fredericksburg, VA, tells the "Untold Story", Defining Characteristics of a Culture, Race and the American Constitution, The Plight of refugees, asylum-seekers and IDPs around the Globe, Immigration Act of 1924: Congress Sets Tough Quotas on Entering U.S., Food Historian Michael Twitty explores African roots of Southern cooking

Systems of Power

1. What is the relationship between individual power and collective power?

2. How do social systems influence the choices we make?

3. How are my understandings of history, identity, and civic action rooted in an analysis of power?

4. What are the four i's of oppression and how do they cause harm in society?

5. How does society divide people into groups? What are the implications for a society when it categorizes people into a social hierarchy?

Newsela Core Readings for Systems of Power: Famous Speeches: Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the 4th of July?”, A short history of institutional racism in the U.S. since the 1960s, Racist housing policies have created some oppressively hot neighborhoods, Redlining prevents minority families from becoming homeowners, Education and Equality in the United States, What school segregation looks like in the U.S. today, in four charts

Social Movements, Solidarity, and Action

1. Who am I and how does my understanding and use of my identities impact the self, community, and environment?

2. What does my community need? How can I contribute to change?

3. What skills and tools are needed to create change in society? How can one make a difference in the community?

4. What debates and dilemmas from past historical moments remain unresolved? Why?

5. How can we use current events and data affecting different ethnic groups to design, implement, and evaluate social action projects our community needs?

Newsela Core Readings for Social Movements, Solidarity, and Action: Young activists create Asian American history lesson to fight racism, For Black women, the 19th Amendment didn’t end their fight to vote, The 1977 disability rights protest that broke records and changed laws

** Parents of FUSD students enrolled in the course can access Newsela through their students' account. Otherwise, if you are interested in reading the Newsela articles please email Jacqueline Cortez at jcortez@fusdk12.net or call to make an appointment at 510.659.2570 ext. 12716