U.S. History Connections

Students will analyze the concept of white supremacy (including institutional racism, racial hierarchy, and oppression), particularly focusing on how white supremacy affected the civil rights struggle for fair housing laws and African American agency.

Students will also exam the ways in which segregation led to a system of second class citizenry for African Americans, the legacy of which is still experienced today. Close attention will be paid to African American agency and the fight for constitutionally protected civil liberties.

Students will analyze the effects of Japanese Internment and relocation on the diaspora of Japanese American culture due to the disruption of communities and the taking of Japanese American homes and other properties.

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Latino Immigration:

Students will analyze Latino immigration patterns between 1910 and 1950; evaluate U.S. immigration policies in the same era, including the impact of the Bracero program. (Focus on how Bracero’s were housed and living conditions). Students will also examine Latino American agency during the Jim Crow Era.

Native American Displacement and Relocation

Students will analyze U.S. policy on relocation and its impact on American Indian peoples (1940 – 1970), with an emphasis on the move to urban centers (focus on overcrowding and living conditions)

Students will examine efforts to re-humanize through the restoration and revitalization of the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health of American Indian communities (e.g. loss of language and culture, confronting drugs and alcohol, addressing rates of suicide, balanced ways of healing).

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