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What materials do you use to teach about cultural interaction? Look at several sites: LitSite

What materials do you use to teach about cultural interaction? Look at several sites: LitSite Alaska’s Digital Archives Alaskool. Discussion: Is discrimination in Alaska a problem?. What people or groups believe they are discriminated against?

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What materials do you use to teach about cultural interaction? Look at several sites: LitSite

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  1. What materials do you use to teach about cultural interaction? Look at several sites: LitSite Alaska’s Digital Archives Alaskool

  2. Discussion: Is discrimination in Alaska a problem?

  3. What people or groups believe they are discriminated against? How do they express the discrimination they sense? What evidence do those discriminated against cite?

  4. Was discrimination a problem in the past? How did they express the discrimination they sensed? What did those discriminated try to do about it? Who spoke out? What was done? How? Was there real change?

  5. Is racism a problem in Alaska? Is “pervasive” an overstatement? Is there anything “unique” or “different” in racism in Alaska than other places? What?

  6. Economic discrimination • Mining Act of 1872 • Labor unions • Equal pay for equal work • Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act corporations

  7. Political discrimination • Female judges • Voting for women and Alaska Natives • Literacy Act of 1925 • Alaska elections subject to federal review • Redistricting and representation • Less than 10 Natives in Alaska Territorial Legislature, 1913-1959 • 3 women and 1 Native of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention, 1955-1956

  8. Discrimination geographically Rural / Urban “divide” Not just where Natives live; where do other ethnic minorities live in the state? Latinos / Pacific Islanders / Filipinos / Black Americans Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) provision that state must provide a “rural subsistence use” priority

  9. Social discrimination Japanese internment during World War II Aleut internment during World War II Alaska Territorial Guard and Alaska National Guard (separate entities during World War II) Education – Molly Hootch State standardized tests Representation of Natives by archaeologists/anthropologists/history texts/museum exhibits (historic preservation, geographic names)

  10. Alaska as microcosm of the rest of U.S., or of the Western U.S.? • Different people in Alaska confronting problems of others worldwide?

  11. What Alaska history materials can best illustrate discrimination? Relations between groups? • http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/documents/racismsfrontier.pdf

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