focus questions
THE Black Lives Matter racial justice movement
1. What are the origins and the purpose of the Black Lives Matter movement?
2. How does the movement grow this year even during the pandemic?
3. What needs to be changed in our country to achieve racial equality?
4. What will we need to do to implement the needed change?
General Questions
1. Is Long Island a racially diverse place?
2. What is economic segregation and what is racial segregation?
3. Does Long Island have patterns of economic and racial segregation?
4. How do issues of segregation impact educational and job opportunities for Long Islanders of different races?
5. Does Long Island have a lot of first generation immigrants and their children?
6. What could be the negative and positive impacts of immigration on Long Island communities?
7. What can teens do to promote and strengthen diversity in their communities?
8. What can teens do to help recent immigrants and their children better adjust to living in their new communities?
9. What social policies on diversity and immigration you think should be introduced in our country?
10. What organizations on Long Island work to promote diversity and help recent immigrants to settle in their new country?
links
THE Black Lives Matter racial justice movement
New York Times:
“Voters Say Black Lives Matter Protests Were Important. They Disagree on Why.”, article by Sabrina Tavernise and John Eligon, November 7, 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/black-lives-matter-protests.html?searchResultPosition=1
General Questions
1. Is Long Island a racially diverse place?
Long Island Index:
http://www.longislandindex.org/data_posts/long-islands-changing-population/
Newsday:
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/long-island-population-aging-gaining-diversity-1.8572887
http://www.mrformansplanet.com/Newsday12142010HispAsian.pdf
Make The Road New York:
http://www.maketheroadny.org/article.php?ID=2738
The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/realestate/27lizo.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/05/nyregion/study-calls-li-most-segregated-suburb.html
Long Island.com:
http://www.longisland.com/population.html
2. What is economic segregation and what is racial segregation?
The Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-segregation.html
Smithsonian National Museum of American History:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/segregated-america.html
National Humanities Center:
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/crm.htm
Public Broadcasting Service:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
http://www.pbs.org/beyondbrown/history/fullhistory.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business-july-dec12-segregation_08-01/
National Park Service:
http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm
Teaching Tolerance:
http://www.tolerance.org/supplement/segregation-today
Pew Research Center:
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/08/01/the-rise-of-residential-segregation-by-income/
NPR (National Public Radio):
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/13/158694543/a-new-kind-of-segregation-income-segregation
US 2010: Discover America in a New Century:
http://www.s4.brown.edu/us2010/Data/Report/report111111.pdf
Inequality.org:
http://inequality.org/income-inequality/
The National Bureau of Economic Research:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14908
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston:
http://www.bostonfed.org/commdev/c&b/2012/fall/geographic-segregation-role-of-income-inequality.htm
3. Does Long Island have patterns of economic and racial segregation?
Institute on Race and Poverty:
http://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/irp.pdf
The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/05/nyregion/study-calls-li-most-segregated-suburb.html
The Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/the-state-of-segregation-in-the-suburbs/453987/
4. How do issues of segregation impact educational and job opportunities for Long Islanders of different races?
Long Island Press:
https://www.longislandpress.com/2014/05/17/long-island-segregation-drives-educational-inequality-60-years-after-brown-v-boe/
Long Island Index:
http://www.longislandindex.org/2015/01/23/new-studies-by-erase-racism-and-the-long-island-index-highlight-inequities-in-education-on-long-island/
http://www.longislandindex.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/download_Still_Separate_and_Not_Getting_More_Equal-The_Persistence_of_Economic_and_Racial_Inequalities_in_Education_on_LI.pdf
Erase Racism:
http://eraseracismny.org/storage/documents/ERASE_Racism_2015_Education_Equity_Report_final_web.pdf
NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/nyregion/black-and-white-on-long-island-like-oil-and-water.html
Newsday:
http://www.newsday.com/business/long-island-s-immigrant-population-impacts-local-economy-1.10496876
5. Does Long Island have a lot of first generation immigrants and their children?
The Wall Street Journal:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203554104577000263988738328
Long Island Wins:
https://longislandwins.com/long-island/
https://longislandwins.com/news/latinos-largest-immigrant-group-in-nassau-county/
https://longislandwins.com/news/national/which-immigrant-group-on-long-island-is-the-largest/
The Long Island Index:
http://www.longislandindex.org/data_posts/english-language-learners/
The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/realestate/27lizo.html
6. What could be the negative and positive impacts of immigration on Long Island communities?
Hofstra.edu:
http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/academics/colleges/hclas/cld/cld_f10_immigration_impacts.pdf
The Wall Street Journal:
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/11/19/the-economic-impact-of-long-islands-immigrant-workers/
Fiscal Policy.org:
http://fiscalpolicy.org/FPI_LongIslandImmigrationAndJobs.pdf
Newsday:
http://www.newsday.com/business/long-island-s-immigrant-population-impacts-local-economy-1.10496876
7.What can teens do to promote and strengthen diversity in their communities?
Connection Newspapers:
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2012/may/03/teens-promote-diversity/
Raising Children:
http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/community_activity_teenagers.html
PR Newswire:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/teens-converge-to-promote-diversity-114718199.html
Youth.gov:
http://youth.gov/youth-topics/service-learning/diversity-intercultural-service-learning
8. What can teens do to help recent immigrants and their children better adjust to living in their new communities?
Child Welfare Information Gateway:
https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/diverse-populations/immigration/helping-immigrant-families-overcome-challenges/
American Psychological Association:
http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/10/immigrants.aspx
Immigrant Hope:
http://immigranthope.org/resources/how-can-i-help-immigrants/
9. What social policies on diversity and immigration you think should be introduced in our country?
Erase Racism New York:
http://www.eraseracismny.org/storage/documents/education/ERASE_Racism-long-island-district-facts.pdf
University of Wisconsin, Madison:
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc182.pdf
Migration Policy Institute:
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/immigration-united-states-new-economic-social-political-landscapes-legislative-reform
Choices.edu:
http://www.choices.edu/resources/documents/immigration_options.pdf
City University of New York, Brooklyn:
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/papers/diversity_and_social_policy.htm
10. What organizations on Long Island work to promote diversity and help recent immigrants to settle in their new country?
Long Island Wins:
https://longislandwins.com/
https://longislandwins.com/service-providers-and-advocacy-groups/
Long Island Immigration Alliance:
http://www.longislandimmigrantalliance.com/
Erase Racism:
http://www.eraseracismny.org/