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THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE (RURAL, URBAN, SUBURBAN) ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES DISABILITIES MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION SOURCES JEWISH RESOURCES ASIAN AMERICAN AFRICAN-AMERICANS WOMEN STUDIES NATIVE AMERICAN HISPANIC|
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documents and set to sort on date for viewing the most recent download.
The archive of this site is most interesting and documents can be downloaded in several different languages. (U.S. Society and Values Electronic Journal Archive
Select "E" for English, "F" for French, "S" for Spanish, "R" for Russian, "P" for Portuguese, and "A" for Arabic
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format. You might have students visit and sample the materials at the site, in view of our national "ethnic" problems. Clearly, the recent foreign policy (of intervention/protection) by the U.S. generates a need for the briefing of citizens on the European ethnic conflicts.
on the topics of: Characteristics of Community Dialogues on Race, Getting Started-Steps in Organizing a Dialogue, Conducting an Effective Community Dialogue on Race, The Role of the Dialogue Leader.
Southwest Electronic Text Center where another large list of projects resides. See: The Bisbee Deportation of 1917, features chiefly printed materials and pamphlets from Special Collections' Manuscript Collection AZ 114, entitled Bisbee deportations legal papers,
and consists of case files from lawsuits that followed the Bisbee deportation of 1917. Borderman: the Memoirs of José María Ronstadt: An electronic version from the manuscripts in the Ronstadt Family archives at the University of Arizona's Special Collections, Desert Documentry: The Spanish Years, 1767-1821, Heart of the Southwest: A Selective Bibliography of Novels, Stories and Tales Laid in Arizona and New Mexico & Adjacent Lands, Heritage: The Story of St. Mary's Hospital 1880 - 1980
The Negro of Tucson, Past and PresentTrek of the Seven Sisters; and The Diary of Sister Berchmans, Voyage and Travel to Tucson 1876, A Southwestern Century: A Bibliography of One Hundred Books of Non Fiction about the Southwest, Southwest Jewish History, Tubac Through Four Centuries: An electronic version of a 200+ page historical work on Tubac, Wagon Making in Southern Arizona.
A three-year effort "...in which diverse, character-driven, high-profile public television broadcasts create a spine for sustained community dialogue and problem solving around the issue of race relations." First in this effort will be this program in September. Media teachers might also note the Long Term Objectives (at the bottem of the page).
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(PBS) The press release claims that it provides "...a powerful tale of the complexities of race relations in America today." The companion site provides information on changes in the racial make-up of American society, a discussion guide for communities and educators on diversity and the online discussion on race relations.
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 Online NewsHour Forum: Opening Doors, Opening Minds -- October 10, 1997
A typical PBS page -- providing timely information and background on a current topic of major interest with interactivity and viewer input. Top shelf visual interest. This site asks viewers to post questions on race relation to Gov. William Winter, and Prof. Christopher Edley. They will be guests on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer October 10th. The site also serves as a central location for PBS features on race relations, with links to programs and discussion back to 1995. The offsite resource list is short and select. You might want to visit the site for the previous program ( Online NewsHour: Little Rock Anniversary -- September 25, 1997), which presents a text/graphic page of the entire program and also links to a RealAudio version for those that want to listen. This page also links to previous PBS program sites for those that have the time for more research online.
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American West : Multicultural Perspectives One of the most comprehensive diversity site to appear on the Web recently, with key elements designed by members of the Washington State University American Studies program. Native Peoples & American Indian West, African American West, Asian / Pacific American West, Chicano / Latino West & Borderland Sites, Women & the West, Intercultural & European American West, Literary Texts & Western Literature Sites, Western Landscape & Natural History, Western Popular Culture & Folklore, On-line Books, Articles & Reviews, On-line Courses, Syllabi & Bibliographies, Art Museums, Galleries & Visual Art Sites, Historical Historic Sites & Monuments, Libraries with West Materials, Discussion Listservs, Scholarly Associations & Centers, On-line Journals with West Material, Western Tourism Sites.
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"By the early twentieth century, any visitor to an American city saw a complexity of cultural life unknown anywhere else in the world. Chinese neighborhoods abutted Italian ones; black migrants from the south moved into Jewish communities. The sounds, the smells, the colors of contrasting cultural heritages overlapped, interacted, overwhelmed the senses." |
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URBAN ISSUES AND OUR CITIES In some respects, the Metro Area of Milwaukee is an outstanding example of city planning. The city/county park system is exceptional and early planners made unusual efforts to acquire and improve property for public use. On the other hand, the city/county has been lax in developing its expressway system. For years it sported an expressway arm that ended on a bridge with no exit (except air) and use the power of eminent domain to buy a corridor of property through the heart of the city for an express highway that was never built, much to the distress of the African American neighborhoods that were disrupted. So what is the point? Good decisions made in the past are great for current residents, but bad decision leave a legacy of mistrust and even hatred. Milwaukee and most of the other major metropolitan complexes in the United States, will have to be "rebuilt" in the 21st century. Countless costly decisions will have to be made by citizens in areas where they may have no previous training or familiarity. What should be kept and what should be discarded? What has worked in the past and what has not worked? How important is the environment (recycling, transportation, education, greenspace, neighborhoods, building codes)? If you care to venture into this vast area, the sites listed below provide a few entry points. Presents collected documents that are the equivalent of a 600-page book. See the essays that describe an ideal physical pattern for cities. "Several survey broadly the state of planning at the time of writing. A number use a single city as an example of how improvements should be made. Others discuss legal issues of land use regulations." For students, the "Subject Index" might be the best place to start..with about a dozen areas to explore. There is much history here, and a kind of history that is frequently not explored at the K-12 area. See "13. The Model City Exhibit in 1904 at the St. Louis World's Fair 14. Australian Federal Capital Competition of 1911-12, but many other links explore historical aspects of urban planning. I also visited the City of Vancouver, B.C., Municipal Government site, which profiles School Plays and a "water site" on the importance of a clean water supply (Take note Milwaukee, with its recent bout with contamination). Most of the metro water treatments systems in the nation will have to be rebuild soon and some are contaminated now. For some recent information on the topic of water, see The Safe Drinking Water Act - One Year Later and Safe Drinking Water - Water on Tap. You can download and read a 24p EPA document on the issue. Vancouver conducts an education program at many sites in the city and in the schools. Visit the Vancouver Solid Waste site for comprehensive waste management program and the web site to promote it. Vancouver also provides recognition for the communities and neighborhoods in the city in the form of Community Profiles. Encouraging residents to raise part of their own food makes sense for a number of reasons and The City Farmer: UN Book and Urban Agriculture Notes provide plenty of information on the benefits. The Children and Horticulture -- kinderGARDEN should provide special guidance for the young students. A recent Tripod column What Makes a City Liveable? provides information (perhaps for more mature students because of the reading level). Students might explore the link to Pre-Ironic in Chicagoby Thomas Frank: urban renewal gone wrong. At one point, Frank describes the view from Midway Airport: "The soil is yellowish and toxic in the vacant lots where steel mills used to be. Sulfurous smoke pours from the steel mills that are still operational and blankets the south side with a foul-smelling cloud on winter nights. The Chicago Skyway, engineering marvel of the 1940s, decomposes slowly by the engineering marvel of the 1980s, the great landfill hills dotted with bright spots where methane burns off." More information and Web resources on Urban problems can be found at the Diversity page, which list a large number of Web sites to explore urban issues. Finally, the American Promise series will be presenting a three-part program starting October 16th. with Part 1: Freedom/Responsibility/Participation (Grass-roots democracy in action, told through the personal stories of ordinary people), followed by Part 2: Hard Choices/Information/Deliberation on Oct 23 (How citizens make hard choices, share information and deliberate issues) and Part 3: Opportunity/Leverage/Common Ground -- Oct 30 (challenges facing democracy, tools people use to make their opinions known, leveraging power and the need to find common ground). An outstanding PBS "teacher tune-in" Web site is available for the series!
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