Smithsonian Institution
Nat'l Portrait Gallery: Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits
This exhibition by National Portrait Gallery titled "Let Your Motto Be Resistance" presents photographs documenting notable African Americans and their contributions to American culture. The gallery of portraits offers an impressive...
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Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives (Chapter 2) [Pdf]
This is Chapter 2 of the third edition (2010) of the book "Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives" by Norwegian author Thomas Hylland Eriksen, a professor at the University of Oslo. He has been studying ethnicity for...
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: Mass Exodus From the Plains
This site is from PBS.org explaining the migration of people out of the plains during the dust bowl. Use this article to learn all about the reasons people left and where they went.
Other
What Is a Worldview?
A detailed article about how humans develop a "worldview" and how they see themselves in the world interacting with other people. A worldview can be religious or non-religious.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Aboriginal Youth Identity Series: Health and Wellness
Through tidbits, photos and timelines, this resource provides learners with an abundant of information regarding Aboriginal Health and Wellness. From what plants are used for medicinal purposes, to the residential school experience, the...
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Aboriginal Youth Identity Series: Spirituality & Creation
Aboriginal Spirituality and Creation is explored in a respectful and sensitive manner on this website. Through puzzles and games, images/photographs , tidbits of information and a glossary, learners are able to explore information about...
Palomar Community College District
Social Organization: Introduction
This is the introduction to a tutorial site for social organization that covers the basic components of the social organization and an explanation of why such organization is necessary and inevitable. The site features flashcards,...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Collapse: Chaco Canyon
Intriguing site that explores the settlement of Chaco Canyon and its collapse. It describes the community and the factors attributed to its demise.
Palomar Community College District
Social Organization: Social Groups
This detailed site provides a clear and easy to understand explanation of social groups. It explores the dynamics of social groups, age-based groups, gender-based groups, and common interest groups. Click here to learn more about the way...
EL Education
El Education: Molly Sanchez
Students learn about Deaf Culture through presentations, cultural experts, fieldwork, and reading fiction and non-fiction books. Then students use the information they have learned to create a realistic character and write a character...
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Latin Amer. In Search of Himself
Summaries and commentaries on five of Garcia Marquez? short stories, ?Death Constant Beyond Love,? ?Tuesday Siesta,? ?One of These Days,? ?Balthazar?s Marvelous Afternoon,? and ?Big Mama?s Funeral? to form this unit. Discusses how these...
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Victoria State Government: Sociodramatic Play (Interacting With Others)
Sociodramatic play is where children act out imaginary situations and stories, become different characters, and pretend they are in different locations and times. Sociodramatic play is the most advanced form of play, and constantly...
OpenStax
Open Stax: New Century, Old Disputes
As the United States entered the twenty-first century, old disputes continued to rear their heads. Some revolved around what it meant to be American and the rights to full citizenship. Others arose from religious conservatism and the...
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Health & Wellness: Reserve Communities
Here are a variety of lesson plans for both elementary and secondary school students, provided to help students assess the health and wellness of Aboriginal Cultures. One specific lesson looks at Reserve Communities in contemporary society.
PBS
Pbs: The First Measured Century: Timeline
This timeline provides a big picture view of historically significant people, events, and data from the twentieth century, also known as the First Measured Century.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: The New Negro and the Black Image: From Booker T. Washington to Alain Locke
This essay explores how Booker T. Washington and others used the term "New Negro" as an attempt to recreate the race by suggesting education, refinement, money, assertiveness, and racial consciousness.
Other
Story Corps: Every Voice Matters
StoryCorps is a national oral history project that records and preserves stories of people around the country. Select recordings are broadcast weekly on NPR, with an archive of stories available for playback at the StoryCorps online...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Albert H. Small Documents Gallery
The Albert H. Small Documents Gallery presents exhibits of rare items valuable to American history.
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Jews & African Americans Built Tradition
Read about the history of the Freedom Seder, a Jewish and African-American tradition. Includes an audio version of the story and a video.
PBS
Pbs: Alcatraz Is Not an Island
An expose on the 19 month occupation of Alcatraz by a group of Native Americans beginning in 1969. They demanded the return of Alcatraz to Indian control and began the resurgence in the American Indian Movement.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 10: Understanding American History
This extensive learning module looks at how themes of American history can create a better understanding of the big picture of the nation's history.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Canela Body Adornment
Among the Canela of Brazil, adorning the body enhances appearance, signals changes in social identity, and expresses culturally prescribed values. View vivid photos of the different cosmetic treatments men and women undergo.
Purdue University
Clc Web: Exploring Transnational Identities in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
A scholarly essay that discusses issues of identity raised in Canadian author Michael Ondaatje's novel "Anil's Ghost."
McGraw Hill
Circles of My Multicultural Self a Classroom Activity
Activity helps students identify what they consider to be the most important parts of their own identity and develop a better understanding of stereotypes.