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What is an American? - Class 5
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Worcester is AmericaThe future Americans are here
What is an American? - Class 5
Class scheduleClass Theme
9/28 IntroductionsImaging America, then and now
10/5 Becoming America10/12 Where did my America go?10/19 The American century10/26 Worcester is America• Readings and presentations
are available online.• Course slides will be available within 15
prior to the start of class.
What is an American? - Class 5
A different future is already in our classrooms
This fall, for the first time, the overall number of Latino, African-American, and Asian students in public K-12 classrooms is expected to surpass the number of non-Hispanic whites.
What is an American? - Class 5
United States in 2060
What is an American? - Class 5
Worcester already has a minority majority school system
What is an American? - Class 5
It’s Complicated
What is an American? - Class 5
Back to the Future
The politics of 2015 resembles what Alexis de Tocqueville saw in 1830. The Information Revolution democratized politics by weakening the elites' grip on information
The Future of American Politics. Richard A. Segal Jr., and Richard S. Dunham. http://www.millennium-project.org/millennium/govscen.html#uspolitics
What is an American? - Class 5
digital literacy and the politics of algorithms
Although it is not necessary to be technically literate to participate, those with limited technical literacy aren’t necessarily equipped to be powerful citizens of the digital world.
It’s Complicated – danah boyd
What is an American? - Class 5
John Perry Barlow
You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html 1996
What is an American? - Class 5
Americans in the future
What is an American? - Class 5
Welcoming the Robot-AmericansWhat happens when robots do all the work?
What is an American? - Class 5
Issues• Immigration• Challenges to birthright citizenship• More *-Americans• African-Americans vs. African-Americans• Asian-Americans vs. Asian-Americans
• Technology• Digital natives vs. Digital Vistors
• Income inequality• Is this something new?• Were we mistaken to think that everyone could
be above average?
What is an American? - Class 5
Observations• It’s personal• It’s about justice and fairness• Home is where we are and where our stuff
is• Freedom of speech and political action is
important
