Syllabi Collection

Integrating Race/Ethnicity into the Political Science Curriculum

In March of 1996 several scholars (Manuel Avalos, Arizona State University West; Paula McClain,University of Virginia; Donald Nakanishi, UCLA; Joseph Stewart, University of Texas at Dallas; and David Wilkins, University of Arizona) conducted a workshop on Integrating Race and Ethnicity into the Political Science Curriculum at the Annual Meetings of the Western Political Science Association in San Francisco, CA.

As part of the workshop, syllabi were collected from around the country from scholars who teach such courses. Below are a collection of syllabi collected for the workshop organized by topic.

• Affigne: Race and Politics in the Americas
• Avalos: Race and Politics in the America
• Barrera:Comparative Ethnic and Race Relations
• Correa: Asians and Latino Politics in the United States
• Fraga: Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
• Klass: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Inequality
• Marquez: Race and Politics in the United States
• Mendelberg: Race and American Politics
• Schmidt: Minority Politics in the United States
• Sierra: The Politics of Ethnic Groups

African American Politics Courses

• Hayes:African American Political Thought
• Hayes: Black Political Participation in America
• Hayes: African Americans and Leadership: Community, Strategy and Transformation

Latino/Chicano Politics Courses

• DeSipio: Latino Politics
• Sierra: Hispanics in U.S. Politics

Native American Politics Courses

• Steiner: Native American Law and Society
• Stubben: American Indian Tribal Government
• Wilmer: American Politics and Governments

Miscellaneous Courses Incorporating Race and Ethnicity

• Avalos: Urban Political Change
• Correa: Identity: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Race
• Hochschild: American Political Thought
• Hochschild: Power in American Society
• Hochschild: Multicultralism in Education
• Hochschild: Ethical Problems in Public Affairs
• Hochschild: Race, Gender and Law in the United States
• Hochschild: The Domestic Policy Process
• Koptiuch: Cultural Diversity
• Lester: Culture, Politics and Public Policy
• Marquez: The Political Economy of Race
• McClain: Minority Communities and Public Policy

This collection of course syllabi is a work in progress. If you have course syllabi you would like to contribute to this web page you may add your syllabi in one of three ways:

If you have a personal web page where your syllabi reside, simply send me your jump link, and the titles of the syllabi.

You may send me a copy of your syllabi via e-mail at the address below.

You may send an ASCII file of your syllabi on a DOS formatted diskette to the following address:

Professor Manuel Avalos
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Arizona State University West
P.O. Box 37100
Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100

Race and Ethnic Group Resources on the World Wide Web

Below are a list of homepages I have found useful in finding social and political resource information on the web. I hope that some of these sites may be of interest to you.

Latino Home Pages

CLNET Home Page

The Tomas Rivera Center

Saludos Web--Hispanic Resource Index

Chicano Studies Research Center

Latino Resources on the Net

LatinoLink Home Page

Home Page for IPRNet®

MCLR Home Page

LatInfo

Hispanic.Com

LatinoWeb

LatinoWeb Resources

HISPANIC OnLine

MALDEF

Heritage

Other Race/Ethnic Group Home Pages

NativeWeb Home Page

African Studies WWW (U. Penn)

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES FOR ETHNIC STUDIES

American Studies Web: Race and Ethnicity

Meanderings - An African American Journal of Politics, Art and Culture

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