
Type | Title | Notes | Description | Category |
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Reading | Immigration | Immigration | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Lesson | Historical Timeline History of Legal and Illegal Immigration to the United States | Legal and Illegal Immigration | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Reading | How Mexican Immigration to the U.S. Has Evolved | Mexican Immigration | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Video | Origins of Slavery in America | Origins of Slavery in America | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Audio | On Crazy We Built A Nation (Seeing White, Part 4) | Podcast on how the concept of citizenship was established to represent white male supremacy. Transcript also available. | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Lesson | Latino Heritage: A Discussion Activity | Teaching Tolerance offers the following essays and activities to help students gain a deeper understanding of past and present struggles for Latino civil rights. | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Lesson | Constitution Role Play: Whose “More Perfect Union”? and The Constitutional Convention: Who Really Won? | Two lessons ask students to think critically about a number of issues that confronted the original framers of the Constitution. In the second lesson (The Constitutional Convention: Who Really Won?), with the Constitution Role Play as background, students are primed to wade into the actual document and analyze parts of it in a social context. | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Lesson Unit | Understanding Ethnic Labels and Puerto Rican Identity | Understanding Ethnic Labels and Puerto Rican Identity | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Video | We are Not a Nation of Immigrants | Videos from the American Renaissance Foundation espousing an Alt-Right view | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Video | Were the Founding Fathers Racist | Videos from the American Renaissance Foundation espousing an Alt-Right view | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Video | What the Founders Really Thought About Race | Videos from the American Renaissance Foundation espousing an Alt-Right view | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Video | All Men are Create Equal | Videos from the American Renaissance Foundation espousing an Alt-Right view | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Lesson | Slavery and the Making of America | Anchor Lesson | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Video | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship: The American Ideal | Anchor Lesson | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Video | Documented | Copies of this film can be borrowed from YCCS. | Documented- a film about immigrants, citizenship and American identity. | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship |
Video | Copies of this film can be borrowed from YCCS. | Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Lesson | The Color Line | Anchor Lesson: A lesson on the countless colonial laws enacted to create division and inequality based on race. This helps students understand the origins of racism in the United States and who benefits. | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Lesson | The Rise and Demise of DACA | Anchor Lesson: Students will analyze the history of recent immigration reform efforts, especially as they relate to undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. • Students will evaluate arguments for and against immigration reform as well as personal stories from DACA recipients and write a response about the issue. | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Video | Copies of this film can be borrowed from YCCS. | The Black Panthers-In the turbulent 1960s, change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored — cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought to drastically transform the system. The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change. | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Lesson | February One | Copies of this film can be borrowed from YCCS. | February One-one remarkable day, four college freshmen changed the course of American history. | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship |
Video | Expanding Voting Rights: Lesson 1 The Early Republic | Anchor Lesson: The Early Republic has students examine what the Constitution did—and did not—say about voting rights; then has them explore the first major expansion of voting rights: the inclusion of white men who did not own property. | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Reading | Constitutional Topic: Citizenship | Citizenship | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Reading | Constitutional Topics | Constitutional Topics | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Lesson | Constitutional Amendments | Hip hop soundtrack of a review of the constitutional amendments | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship | |
Lesson | History of Immigration Through the 1850s | History of Immigration | Race, Democracy, and Citizenship |