Welcome to the Ethnic Studies Guide. You can use the left navigation links to learn about the various types of resources are available to Stan State students and faculty. According to the Warrior Cross Cultural Center and experts in the dicipline, "Ethnic
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Civil Rights
Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story
Click to watch 'Brick by Brick'Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story shows that segregation has been as virulent and persistent in the North as in the South and that it too has resulted from deliberate public policies based in deep-rooted racial prejudice. The film uses the bitter struggle over equal housing rights in Yonkers, New York during the1980s to show the "massive resistance" the Civil Rights Movement confronted when it moved north. Brick by Brick is not only a brilliant legal history of one of the most important cases in civil rights law, it narrates through the passionate experiences of Yonkers residents on both sides of the issue. The film demonstrates how courageous citizens and dedicated lawyers can enforce the constitutional rights of African Americans in the face of dangerous demagogues fomenting racial hatred.
Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy that Shaped a NationSix-episode series.Survey the history and people from 1565-1880, as the first Spanish explorers enter North America, the U.S. expands into territories in the Southwest that had been home to Native Americans and English and Spanish colonies, and as the Mexican-American War strips Mexico of half its territories by 1848.
