• Week 1 - Schaefer, Chapter One, "Understanding Race and Ethnicity" [pp. 2-35]
• Discussion Topics:
  1) What is it that distinguishes a racial group from an ethnic group?
  2) What exactly distinguishes Gypsies/Rom from gadjes?

• Week 2 - Schaefer, Chapter Two, "Prejudice" [pp. 36-65]
• Week 3 - Schaefer, Chapter Three, "Discrimination" [pp. 66-93]
• Paper Issue #1 - September 15^th - "Are Definitions of Race just Political?" [pp. 126-149] Click here for the handout
• Discussion Topics:
  1) Why do prejudicial attitudes towards a group not always predict discriminatory behavior towards the same group?
  2) What is the meaning of race in America today AND what race is Tiger Woods?

• Week 4 - Schaefer, Chapter Four, "Immigration and the United States" [pp. 94-121]
• Paper Issue #2 - September 29^th - "Is Immigration Good for America?" [pp. 32-43] Click here for the handout
• Week 4 - Schaefer, Chapter Eleven, "Muslim and Arab Americans: Diverse Minorities" [pp. 298-321]
• Week 5 - Schaefer, Chapter Fourteen, "Jewish Americans: Quest to Maintain Identity" [pp. 372-399]
• Discussion Topics:
  1) What is anti-Semitism and where does it originate?
  2) Who are Arabs and why are so many non-Arab Americans threatened by them?

Section Four: Religious Minorities

• Week 6 - Schaefer, Chapter Five, "Ethnicity and Religion" [pp. 122-163; also pp. 341-342 (Hmong)]
• Discussion Topics:
  1) How do Amish values contrast with mainstream American values?
  2) Why were Mormons once a persecuted minority and how did this change?
  3) How does the role of the Hmong clan group serve to structure the life experience of Hmong people?

• Week 7 - Schaefer, Chapter Six "The First Native Americans" [pp. 164-197]
• Week 8 - John Lame Deer, Chapters 1-3, 5-7, 11, 12, and 14
• Paper Issue #3 - October 27^th - American Indian Issues: Lame Deer, The Origin of Stories, etc. Click here for the handout
• Discussion Topics:
  1) What does it mean to be a tribal Indian and how do tribal Indians differ from other persons who consider themselves to be American Indians?
  2) Which American Indian tribes and bands are indigenous to the State of Wisconsin?
  

• Week 9 - Schaefer, Chapter Thirteen, "Chinese Americans …" [pp. 350-359 only]
• Paper Issue #4 - November 1^st - "Are Asian Americans a Model Minority"? [pp. 172-196] Click here for the handout
• Discussion Topics:
  1) Why were the Chinese the first Asians to migrate to the United States?
  2) Why do so many Chinese live in Chinatowns such as the one in New York?

Section Seven: African Americans - The Struggle for Political and Social Equality

• Week 10 - Schaefer, Chapter Seven "The Making of African Americans in a White America" [pp. 198-225]
• Week 11 - Schaefer, Chapter Eight "African Americans Today" [pp. 226-251]
• Paper Issue #5 - November 22^nd - "Is Racial Profiling Defensible Public Policy?" [pp. 392-412] Click here for the handout
• Discussion Topics:
  1) Why were the so-called "Free Blacks" in the period before the Civil War not really free?
  2) How did the media represent Blacks prior to the 1960's and how have the circumstances of African American people improved since the 1960's?

• Week 12 - Schaefer, Chapter Twelve, "Asian Americans: Growth and Diversity" [pp. 322-349]
• Discussion Topics:
  1) Is Hawaii a racial paradise? How so? How not so?
  2) What is the status of native Hawaiian people today in Hawaii?

• Week 13 - Schaefer, Chapter Thirteen, "...Japanese Americans" [pp. 359-369 only]
• Discussion Topics:
  1) Why were only West Coast Japanese singled out for internment during World War II?
  2) What is the basis of the myth that Japanese are a model minority?

• Week 14 - Schaefer, Chapter Nine "Hispanic Americans" [pp.252-270] and Chapter Ten, "Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans" [pp. 272-297]
• Paper Issue #6 - December 12^th - "Are Hispanics Making Economic Progress?" [pp. 198-219] Click here for the handout
• Discussion Topics:
  1) Why are the Latinos so politically disorganized given their relatively large numbers?
  2) Why are Cuban Americans the most prosperous group of Hispanics in the United States today?