Race in US History

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Ethnic Notions

Viewers on taken on a disturbing voyage through American social history in this documentary, which traces the evolution of anti-black racism through popular culture.

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Eugenics, Race, and Marriage

Learn about the case of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, who were prosecuted because they violated a Virginia law banning interracial couples from marrying.

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Bullying & Ostracism

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Exploring Identity and Community: 18-week Curriculum Outline

This outline provides an instructional pathway for educators to teach an 18-week curriculum exploring questions of identity, family legacy, group membership and choices. Recommended for 6th-grade educators.

It is based on the following resources: 1) Unit: Identity & Community, 2) Unit: My Part of the Story, 3) Novel: Wonder, and 4) Memoir: Brown Girl Dreaming.

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Family Name Study Guide

Explore identity and race through an award-winning documentary about one man's efforts to uncover the history of three families that share his last name.

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From Swastika to Jim Crow

Expelled from their homeland by the Nazis, many German-Jewish scholars came to the US and found new lives and careers at all-Black colleges and universities in the then-segregated South.

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Goin' to Chicago

After WWII, a migration of African Americans from the rural South to the North took place. Four million black people created a dynamic urban culture outside the South, changing America forever.

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Good Enough: One Man's Memoir on the Price of a Dream

Leon Bass, a retired educator who as a young African American soldier entered Buchenwald shortly after its liberation, reflects on his life experiences fighting racism in this memoir.

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Imitation of Life

A struggling young actress with a six-year-old daughter sets up housekeeping with a black widow and her light-skinned eight-year-old daughter who rejects her mother by trying to pass for white.

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In Whose Honor?

A Native American activist spreads awareness of the dangers of racial stereotyping, particularly in regards to sports, in this documentary.

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In the White Man's Image

Schools taught Native Americans to imitate white men in a liberal "civilizing" mission in 1875. This is a story of cultural genocide--a humanist experiment gone bad.

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