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Answer the following by drawing on the film (and for extra credit points - the secondary source by James Grossman, “The White Man’s Union” which provided some of the historical research for the film):
1. What caused the riot?
2. What did the migrants hope to find in the north?
3. How did the various characters relate to the union? Did they resist white supremacy? How?
Frank Custer
Heavy Williams
Thomas
Mr. Cheeks (Y, Urban League)
Miss Lila (letter writer)
Robert Bedford
4. Compare the experiences of Polish immigrants and black migrants at the packing house and with the union. Why was the union a "white man's union" and how did historical circumstance keep it that way making it difficult for black workers to join?
5. How did wartime change the relationship of the federal government with the packing houses, the union and the workers?
What two countries is this reading about? Why did the Europeans want to go to these countries?
What is a scenario that involves the 1st amendment freedom of speech
What is a scenario that involves the 1st amendment freedom of press
2. If you were in Jefferson's shoes, how would you handle the challenges and opportunities of his presidency?
Why do humans so often divide themselves into “we” and “they”?
What examples from Portugal help you answer that question?
Which article(s) from the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights were violated in Portugal? Describe how it was violated.
Scholar George Fredrickson writes that racism has two components: difference and power. He explains:
“It originates from a mindset that regards “them” as different from “us” in ways that are permanent and unbridgeable. This sense of difference provides a motive or rationale for using our power advantage to treat the . . . Other in ways that we would regard as cruel or unjust if applied to members of our own group.”
How is Fredrickson’s definition of racism reflected in the history of imperialism?
The great irony of the initial New England Puritan establishment is that:
Anthropologists concerned with methodology face key challenges related to issues of 1) qualitative versus quantitative data and approaches, 2) choosing the appropriate unit of analysis, 3) dealing with intra-cultural diversity, and 4) sampling from a designated research population. Identify what you consider to be the most critical challenges related to each. What are the most effective strategies in the field for dealing with these challenges (site specific examples) and how can those strategies contribute to "rigorous and systematic" methodology in field work?
