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The ethnic studies curriculum will begin as a pilot program in at least five high schools. [49] It is expected that by the 2017–2018 academic school year, every high school will offer at least one course in ethnic studies and the class would be compulsory by the time the class of 2019 graduates. [50]
Smaller tribes began to form loose confederations of smaller, more autonomous villages. From that blending of many tribes, ethnogenesis led to the emergence of new ethnic groups and identities for the consolidated natives who had managed to survive the incursion of European people, animals, and diseases.
Ethnic history is a branch of social history that studies ethnic groups and immigrants. Barkan (2007) argues that the field allows historians to use alternate models of interpretation, unite qualitative and quantitative data, apply sociological models to historical patterns, examine more deeply macro-level policies and decisions, and, especially, empathize with the ethnic groups under study.
Itneg potters in northern Philippines.The person on the right is biologically male and is wearing women's clothes, a common practice in pre-colonial Philippines. Scholars studying the history of Mexico's indigenous peoples have a long tradition, dating back to the colonial era; they used alphabetic texts and other sources to write the history of Mexico's indigenous peoples.
The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a prolific ethnographer in antiquity. The term ethnography is from Greek (ἔθνος éthnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω gráphō "I write") and encompasses the ways in which ancient authors described and analyzed foreign cultures.
The establishment of the first College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State, the first Ethnic Studies Department at Berkeley, increased hiring of faculty of color, and efforts to increase minority representation on college campuses all resulted from the actions of the Third World Liberation Front. [7] [8]
The political uproar over diversity studies is clouding the reality that few four-year institutions offer a major in Latino or other ethnic studies.
AP African American Studies was the first ethnic studies course offered by College Board, and was the first pilot course since 1952. [ 6 ] Topics in the pilot course range from Queen Nzinga in northern Angola to the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Panthers . [ 7 ]