Worksheet # 4

 

Answer the following questions using two required textbooks and statistics in the library.  Make sure to cite sources.

 

 

  1. Using the FBI’s website as a reference (http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/civilrights/hate.htm), define hate crimes in your own words.

 

  1. Using “authoritative” reference materials, websites or databases, find current statistics of hate crimes in the United States.  Attach a one-two page print out with your assignment. (If the pages are more than 2 pages, attach only the first two pages.  In other words, I do not want the whole report.  Please do not waste paper.  All I want to know is where you got the information.  As always, I will be looking for your citation.) 

 

  1. Based on Asian American Dreams and the news you read, persistent hate crimes still continue.  Using databases you already know, find an article about hate crimes in Washington Sate written within the last three years.  Who are the targets of the hate crimes in your article, and explain how the incidence parallels other historical incidences toward minorities.  (Attach the article with your assignment.)

 

  1. Using EBSCOhost, find the peer-reviewed article titled, “Teaching Beyond the Deficit Model: Gays and Lesbian Among African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans.”  Identify and summarize the “five commonalities” affecting identity development from the article.  What are the some of the similarities among the minority groups?  What is something unique about each group?    

 

  1. According to Double Victory (Chapter 8), who were some of the first soldiers’ who liberated Jewish prisoners from the concentration camp in Dachau?  Have you heard this before?  In your opinion, why have such stories not been told in mainstream American history books?  Do you know of similar accounts in U.S. history?