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Multicultural Assignment 3
The third requirement is a paper on racism and ethnocentrism in the media. This paper should be 5-8 pages, not including title page, abstract or references. It will be an examination of the often unexamined, somethimes subtle, but ubiquitous manifestations of racism, ethnocentrism and the different "isms" in the various forms of the media, broadly defined. This paper will be a meld of your own observations, the assigned reading, and references you discover within and outside of psychology. You may look at journalistic media, movies, popular print media, television, etc If you have questions about your topic, discuss it with me. You will be aware of one aspect of racism, ethnocentrism, or another of the "isms," and a fellow student may be more aware of another. Sharing these perspectives in our class forums can be illuminating. This paper will be due at the beginning of week thirteen and will make up 20% of your grade.


Multiculturalism and racism

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1. In Chapters 1-10 of Fifty Miles from Tomorrow, in terms of culture shock who do you think Hensley, born in 1941, had more in common with, Mankiller, born in 1945, or Geronimo, born in 1829? Why? include textual references where appropriate.

2. In Chapters 11 through 14 we see Hensley becoming politically activist. What do you see as the primary similarities and differences between Hensley and Wilma Mankniller as she became politically active? (be sure to include textual references. Refer to the books themselves, the primary sources, not secondary sources).

3. In Fifty Miles from Tomorrow, William Iggiagruk Hensley comments on many social issues that are common in American society today, e.g. poverty, alcoholism, racism, access to health care, among other issues. He also explains how American education, politics, and religious practices have been used by the United States federal government to effect cultural change in Alaska Native communities. In addition to these issues, Hensley has included considerable ethnographic information describing life before and after statehood. He emphasizes the necessity for the preservation of the land and the centrality of language in the continuation of culture.
Read chapters 23 and 24 carefully and respond in detail to one of the following questions. Draw your answers from throughout the autobiography.

1. Hensley is having a spiritual identity crisis and is trying to make sense of what has happened to him and his people. There is an element of blame, of holding the people themselves partially responsible for the deterioration of the culture and the increase in social problems.
Let?s look at this a different way and not emphasize what the older generations lost but what the old people, against all odds, were able to save of their culture so that Hensley and members of his generation could even think of a cultural revitalization.
If your intent were to acknowledge aspects of the culture that continued despite being threatened from every perspective by cultural or physical genocide in assimilationist attempts, what would you emphasize that the elders had, against all odds, managed to retain?

2. In what ways can Hensley?s experience be related to that of Geronimo, and what associations can you make between the ways each attempted to serve his people?

3. In what ways can Hensley?s experience be related to that of Mankiller, and what associations can you make between the ways they attempted to serve their respect people?

4. Based on Hensley?s account throughout the autobiography, he is able to integrate into both his Inupiaq culture and the American over-culture. He is bicultural. His exposure to American education is a factor in that biculturalism. How would you describe the role of American education in Inupiaq sovereignty based on Hensley?s autobiography?

5. Compose a question of your choice that shows insight into Hensley?s life experience as reflected in his autobiography and answer it.

I emailed Mankiller and Hesley Chapters. Here is the link for Geronimo http://www.ibiblio.org/ebooks/Geronimo/GerStory.htm