THE POLITICS OF CIVIL RIGHTS I:

RACE AND ETHNICITY

I.  What are Civil Rights?

A.  Questions
B.  Definition

II.  The Legacy of Racism

A.  Native Americans
B.  African Slavery
        1.  Economic Benefits
        2.  Institutionalizing Racism
        3.  Civil War and Emancipation
C.  Reconstruction and Early Civil Rights
        1.  14th Amendment
D.   Rolling Back Civil Rights
        1.  Plessy v. Fergusson

III.  Civil Rights Movements

A.  Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
B.  Martin Luther King
C.  Civil Rights Legislation
D.  Identity Politics

IV.  Civil Rights and the Courts

A.  Busing
B.  Affirmative Action
        1.  Definition
        2.  Bakke vs. University of California (1978)
        3.  The Strict-Scrutiny Analysis
        4.  Mixed Signals
C.  Bilingual Education
        1.  American Babylon
        2.  Lau v. Nichols (1974)
        3.  California’s English Immersion

IV.  Immigration

A.  Nativist Tension
B.  Immigrant Civil Rights

V.  Conclusion:  “What are you?”