HIST-205 History of Race & Ethnicity Distance Learning
This course focuses on a 'neglected dimension' in American History and society, namely the study of the diverse racial and ethnic and other non-traditional communities in the United States. The impact of the Anglo-core culture on our political, religious and economic institutions - Democracy, Protestantism, Capitalism - is the major frame of reference. Assimilationist and power conflict sociological models are applied to white, ethnic, Native-American, African American, Hispanic-American, and Asian- American groups. Immigration policies and hatred towards diverse groups are studied from historical and contemporary perspectives.