Teaching Diversity: People of Color
An essay series from the AHA Committee on Minority Historians
Edited by Antonio Rios-Bustamante, this essay series from the AHA's Committee on Minority Historians is intended for historians and teachers and aims to contribute to a more complete American history and a history of the American people. The essay series (additional titles forthcoming) will offer an overview of the historiography and teaching strategies regarding previously underrepresented racial-ethnic groups. It will also address gender issues in each of the general pamphlets.
Antonio Rios-Bustamante is a professor of history and director of Chicano studies at the University of Wyoming.
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Teaching Mexican American History
Foley and Chávez reexamine the impact of Mexican and Latino culture within the dichotomy of American-western historiography, and discuss ways in which this impact might be taught in the classroom.
2002. 54 pages
ISBN 0-87229-126-X
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Teaching African American History
An updated synopsis of African American history that reviews central themes, introduces the significant literature in the field, and provides a conceptual framework for including the main events of African American thought and activity in U.S. history courses. The author traces the rise of African American culture and its influence on U.S. society over three centuries. This text make recent interpretations of African American history accessible to a broad audience.
Robert L. Harris is associate professor of African American history in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, where he also serves as Vice Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development.
2001.
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Teaching U.S. Puerto Rican History
This essay includes a comprehensive overview of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States, incorporating the most recent scholarship on the subject. Setting the parameters for this historical narrative are the principles and issues surrounding Puerto Rican studies as an academic discourse and pedagogical strategies for teaching U.S. Puerto Rican history.
Virginia Sánchez Korrol is Claire and Leonard Professor and chair of the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She is author of From Colonial to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City.
1999. 64 pages.
ISBN 0-87229-098-0
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Teaching Immigration of People of Color to the United States
This essay begins with the Hispanic colonization of the American Southwest and continues to the present day. In the past sixty years, people of color--Hispanics, blacks, and Asians--account for nearly 90 percent of immigrants to the United States. In discussing these waves of immigration, it is important to remember that the classifications of Hispanics, blacks, and Asians are broad and represent many different groups, each with its own historical experience in the United States.
David M. Reimers is a professor of history at New York University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on immigrations and ethnicity, including Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration (coauthor, Len Dinnerstein)
1999. 64 pages.
ISBN 0-87229-110-3
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Teaching Asian American History
In this compelling three-part essay, the author summarizes how Asian American history traditionally has been taught and offers new insights on innovative teaching approaches. The essay incorporates the history of Asian Americans along with the history of the many diverse groups that make up American society as a way to teach an inclusive and comparative history of American society. The essay also includes a thorough review of the existing literature.
Gary Y. Okihiro is a professor of history and the director of the Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University.
1997. 57 pages
ISBN 0-87229-077-8
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Teaching Asian American Women's History
In recent years U.S. history has undergone a dramatic reexamination. Vibrant new scholarly areas have transformed knowledge and the way we "historicize." Despite these innovations, Asian American women's history continues to be a rarity in the national narrative. In this compelling essay, author Shirley Hune focuses on the significance of Asian American women's history, exploring the historiography, various interpretations, and important themes. The essay offers new insights and innovative teaching strategies and also includes a thorough review of the existing literature in a bibliographic essay.
Shirley Hune is a professor of urban planning in the School of Public Policy and Social Research and the associate dean for the graduate programs, graduate division, at the University of California at Los Angeles.
1997. 60 pages
ISBN 0-87229-079-4
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Teaching Gender in U.S. History
In this insightful essay the author explores the development of gender studies in teaching U.S. history, examining how gender acted as a crucial social dynamic that shaped a multitude of cultural values, institutional arrangements, and social relations. The essay discusses the ways in which class and race inequalities have constructed different gendered identities with critical material and political consequences for all social groups. A review of the existing literature is also included in the essay.
Karen Anderson is a professor of history at the University of Arizona.
1997. 56 pages
ISBN 0-87229-078-6
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Teaching American Indian History
Perceived "otherness," diversity, and acculturation are addressed in this comprehensive overview of Native American people. Attention is paid to the precontact period as well as 20th-century relations between Natives and the diverse groups that compose the American population. Strategies are discussed for effectively teaching students the different traditions and beliefs of American Indian tribes.
Terry P. Wilson is a professor of Native American studies and ethnic studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
1993. 66 pages
ISBN 0-87229-069-7
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