ETHNIC STUDIES CURRICULUM

XITO’s available curriculum packages include: full 30-week course, two semester-long courses, or individual 3-6 week units. Each unit includes a scope and sequence, detailed lesson plans, corresponding slides, and all linked readings and resources.

Consulting services and professional development training can be incorporated with any of the curriculum offerings. Please contact XITO to discuss pricing and implementation options.

INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Ethnic Studies examines the history, politics, economics, society, and/or culture of one or more of the racial/ethnic groups in the United States. This course will take a comprehensive approach to studying the contemporary issues affecting racial/ethnic groups overall as well as diving into a few specific racial/ethnic groups relevant to our region and the participants in the course.

The one semester or full year Ethnic Studies course offers an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and comparative study of the social, cultural, political, and economic expression and experiences of ethnic groups. Relevant standards will be addressed in Social Studies as it pertains to the counternarratives, epistemologies, and cultures of those who have been historically marginalized. While the curriculum is standards aligned this course will also be student, community, and culturally responsive developing students' critical consciousness, agency, and positive identities.

COURSE OVERVIEW

Please note: the overview listed below is one example of how this course has been implemented in the past - we are happy to work with you to design a curriculum package to fit your needs.

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SAMPLE LESSON: FOUR I's OF OPPRESSION

SEMESTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO ETHNIC STUDIES

3 UNITS | 18 WEEKS

  • Compelling Question: Who are you in relation to yourself, culture, and society?

    LESSONS

    1. What is Ethnic Studies?

    2. Who Am I & What Are My Identities?

    3. Race & Ethnicity

    4. Life in the Hyphen & A Double Consciousness

    5. Intersectionality & Solidarity

    6. Lotería: Developing a Love of Ourselves & Our Cultures

  • Compelling Question: What are systems of power and oppression and how have institutions maintained or perpetuated them?

    LESSONS

    1. Levels of Consciousness

    2. Four I’s of Oppression (FREE SAMPLE LESSON HERE)

    3. The Legal Struggle for Educational Equality

    4. Medical & Healthcare Systems

    5. Policing & Prisons

    6. Immigration

  • Compelling Question: Why is Change Necessary?

    LESSONS

    1. The Movement for Ethnic Studies

    2. The Black Power Movement

    3. Young Lords: The People Fight Back

    4. Indigenous Resistance: Standing Rock & The NoDAPL Movement

    5. Farmworker Movement: Chicanx, Filipinx & Arab Solidarity

    6. How Does Change Happen?

SEMESTER 2: ETHNIC STUDIES HISTORY

4 UNITS | 12 WEEKS

  • Compelling Question: How has settler colonialism impacted Native American communities throughout history and how did the Red Power Movement resist land theft and assimilation tactics? 

    LESSONS

    1. Settler Colonialism & The Road to the Reservation

    2. Native American Boarding Schools

    3. Native American Resistance: The Red Power Movement

  • Compelling Question: What are pivotal episodes in Chicanx-Latinx History which have proven to be socially and politically transformational for both Chicanx and greater U.S. society? 

    LESSONS

    1. The Birth of Mexican Americans/Chicanx in the United States: Resistance & Affirmation

    2. Mass Deportations Then & Now

    3. The Zoot Suit Riots

  • Compelling Question: How has the Black/African American community in the U.S. been impacted by systemic racism and how have they fought back against these injustices?

    LESSONS

    1. Slave Rebellions & The Abolitionist Movement

    2. Housing Discrimination

    3. Black Lives Matter

  • Compelling Question: How have exclusionary policies, practices and laws historically impacted the Asian American & Pacific Islander community and how are the effects felt today?

    LESSONS

    1. From China to Gold Mountain

    2. Japanese American Internment

    3. Pacific Islander/Oceania Resistance to Colonialism

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