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Assignment:
Short Response Questions: Respond to each of the following in a well-written paragraph. Be sure to answer all parts of each question and be specific by providing concrete examples that support your arguments and demonstrate your understanding of each question. Please include the question to which you are responding.
1. How did boarding schools affect the physical, psychological, and social well-being of Native Americans?
2. Who do you believe had the better approach to the education of Blacks at the time (-1900), Booker T. Washington or W.E.B. DuBois? Defend your position and be specific.
3. Put on your thinking cap. Considering what you know about economics and housing, make an argument as to why some people say the education system is still separate and unequal?
4. What are some of the potential effects on both Whites and Nonwhites of incorporating whiteness into education curriculums.
5. How has attending a diverse university like USF influenced your ideas or experiences pertaining to racial and ethnic relations.
6. How might the current racial and ethnic differences in the education gap of your generation effect the lives and future opportunities of the next generation (i.e. your children)?
7. What is oppositional culture and how might it explain racial/ethnic differences in educational attainment?
8. What is tracking and how might it be used to decrease the education gap?
Course Concepts:
Explain the meaning of the following concepts AND further demonstrate your understanding by providing a real-world example for each. Answers need to be provided in paragraph form, no bullet points.
1. Brown vs. Board of Education
2. Eurocentric curriculum
3. Cultural capital
4. Model minority