Article emphasizes the role that postsecondary institutions can play by structuring dialogue sessions that offer students an opportunity to share perspectives and insights on the issues of racism and discrimination. Proposes that the expertise that student affairs professionals have can structure processes that will facilitate input and…

Distorted images of American minorities are reflected in all spheres of American life, including academic and public policies. Some specific examples include: (1) Harvard's 1922 quota system for Jews, the university's pattern of white supremacy, and bias in its scholarly research; (2) the relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II; (3)…

Designed to help local boards of education eliminate biased instructional materials, these guidelines contain (1) a suggested contractual provision which specifies instructional material reflecting the multi-ethnic nature of society, (2) a rationale for the contractual provision, (3) three examples of how textbooks can be analyzed, (4) the…

Argues that for too long the experiences of the Chinese population in America have been either shrouded in misconception or totally ignored, and that this country must recognize and deal with the issues affecting this community. Learning about Chinese Americans will allow us to reexamine governmental policies towards racial and ethnic groups and…

Explores how Asian American students have experienced and viewed their own participation on one of the most diverse college campuses, that of the University of California at Berkeley. The focus is on stereotypes and learning to be Asian American, the tug-of-war for group affiliation, and subtle experiences of exclusion college students encounter.…

International students and their dependents contribute more than $12 billion a year to the U.S. economy, yet for institutions of higher education, the greatest gains lie not in dollar amounts but in new insights and perspectives. As international students enter U.S. colleges and universities, they bring with them a wealth of curricular and…

In this paper I present a pedagogical method called Writing Answers to Learn (WAL) which combines Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and Exploratory Writing to address the interrelated pedagogical problems of misconceptions, resistance, retention, and transfer. I analyze the use of this combined method in a course on racial and ethnic relations and…

This resource anthology consists of reprinted articles and documents dealing with the Chinese American experience. It is intended for use in secondary school classrooms and is divided into three sections: history, community, and stereotypes. The history of the Chinese in the U.S. is detailed in works describing immigration policies and labor laws,…

This is the report of a study which investigated the relationship between interethnic curriculum and racial prejudice in a group of first grade children who had been exposed to interethnic instructional curriculum in kindergarten and first grade. A review of literature on the subject clarifies possible confounding variables to be considered in…

Chinese immigration to the United States in the 19th century was predominantly male. White racism led to the passage of Exclusion Laws, which severely restricted the immigration of the wives of the earlier migrants. This, coupled with miscegenation laws, has seriously affected the demographics of Chinese Americans. The underrepresentation of…

Describes a technique for the first class session of a course in Race and Nationality that uses a staged confrontation between a White professor and a Black student over a racial joke. Shows how the technique, in combination with student field research projects, provides an important link between common student experiences and abstract issues in…

For many years, the dominant image of Africa seen on Western films was that of condescension and paternalism. The history of films about Africa, with some exceptions to the prevailing portrayals, is traced; and the origin and growth of the African film industry are reviewed. (SLD)

This report focuses on two issues of civil rights in broadcasting--the portrayal of minorities and women on network television and the employment of these groups at television stations. Findings and recommendations concerning portrayal are derived from content analyses of television drama and television news. Commentary on employment is based on…