Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
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Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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GOVT 3191 - [Racial and Ethnic Politics in the U.S.]

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 3191 , LSP 3191 ) (SBA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015.

M. Jones-Correa.

In 1965 the landscape of American politics changed dramatically with the passage of the Voting Rights Act. That same year, Congress passed the Immigration Reform Act, which though little heralded at the time, arguably has had equally profound effects. This course will provide a general survey of minority politics in the United States, focusing on the effects of these two key pieces of legislation. The course will highlight the relationships between immigrants and minorities, electoral politics and protest politics, and between cooperation and competition within and among minority groups. The purpose of the course is not only to pinpoint the similarities and differences in the agendas and strategies adopted by racial and ethnic minority groups, but also to show how inextricably intertwined “minority” politics and American politics have been and continue to be.



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