SBS 301 CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Fall 2007---Professor: Kristin Koptiuch
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Arizona State University at the West campus, Phoenix, Arizona
PERSONAL MEMORY ETHNOGRAPHIES
What are they?
Borderlands of Race/Ethnicity
 
Kathy Banbrook, Unlearning Color Blindness
 Kelly Blake, Corn Rows & Strawberry Shortcake
 Andrew Doom, Professional Racists
Carol Curtsinger,  Thank You Bessie & Cecilia
 John Prater, My Dinner with Robert
 Alyssa Mayberry, Racial Discrimination from the Bench
Michael Swiderski, I Shouldn't Have Been So Surprised Brooke Bennett, The Canned Food Disaster
Stephanie Sumida, You Mean North Korea?
Alejandra Urquijo, Battle of the Languages Cinthia Valenzuela,  The Day I Became the Other Marquita Augustus, Road Trip to Texas
Christopher Gonzalez, Colorblindness at its Worst
 Armando Lozano, Friend or Foe?
 Michelle Swann, We Are Ever So Different
Lana Schmitt, Como Agua Para Café; How One Kitchen Taught Me un poco Español and a lot about Difference
 Dan Avena, The Racist Friend


and Inter-race

Kayce Kinser, La Gringa Mexicana
 Jessie Grant, Backyard Talk
 Linda Candelario, No Vacancies?
Misty Smith, A Lesson Learned Too Young


Borderlands of Class and (Trans)Nation

Yanting Chen, Why can’t he be an American? Stephan Badgett, Wide Eyed Renée Glass, A Tale of Convenience
Mary Lee Glassburn, A Class Act
 Anda Neagoe, A New Beginning
 Eva D. Torres, What a Young Guatemalan Boy Taught Me About the American Dream 
Monica Van Winkle, Aren’t you Mexican?


Borderlands of Gender and Sexuality

Sidney Anderson, Grandma Says “Girls Don’t Rule"

 Megan Dryer, Can You Have Two Mommies? Jennie Does Wendy Kelly, Violence, She Told Me, Isn’t The Answer
Carly McVay, Hello and Hide Kitty
 Priscilla Toro, Your Kind Should Die

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