Follow these directions:

I. Write down your definition of "cultural diversity", based on your own life experience.

II. Collect data

1. Use google.com as your search engine.
   
2. Search using the term "cultural diversity"
   
3. Print out the page with the returns from the search.
   
4. Select 10 items from those returned and open those pages.
   
5. Print out at least the first page of each site.
   
6. Select 5 of these sites for further analysis. You may select them randomly, or because they interest you.
   

II. Analyze data

1. Use the following questions to analyze the data, filling in the worksheets.
   
   • a. How is the term "cultural diversity" defined? If the term is not specifically defined, how is it used? What definition do you infer from this usage?
     
   • b. What issues does the site (page) address?
     
   • c. Why are the authors of the site concerned with cultural diversity?
2. Review the readings in the "Introduction" to the text, using these same questions.
   

III. Analytic report

1. State what you thought "cultural diversity" meant before you did this project. In the conclusion to your essay, state in what ways your understanding of the concept "cultural diversity" changed after reading the sties and readings you analyzed.
   
   
2. Compare and contrast the sites you located on the Web with each other and with the articles in the text.
   

   a. Do the definitions seem to be the same, or different?
   

   b. Do they address similar issues, or are they different?
   

   c. Are their concerns regarding diversity similar, or different?
   

   In your responses, be specific. Use data (examples) from the readings, and from the web sites. Be sure to cite the pages you refer to.
   

3. Staple together your data (the print-outs from the search and the web sites; analysis worksheets), and turn them in with your analytic essay.
   

(feel free to copy this to your computer)

Analysis of Web Sites

I. List your sites. Give URL and the name of the site:

Site 1:

Site 2:

Site 3:

Site 4:

Site 5:

II. Definition of cultural diversity:

Site 1:

Site 2:

Site 3:

Site 4:

Site 5:

III. Issues they address:

Site 1:

Site 2:

Site 3:

Site 4:

Site 5:

IV. Why they are concerned with cultural diversity?

Site 1:

Site 2:

Site 3:


Site 4:



Site 5:

Other relevant aspect of items (specify).

Site 1:

Site 2:


Site 3:

Site 4:



Site 5:

ANALYSIS OF ARTICLES

II. Definition of cultural diversity:

Introduction:

Robin D.G. Kelley:

Suzanne Oboler:

Jane Adams, "Race: Mississippi":

III. Issues they address:

Introduction:

Robin D.G. Kelley:

Suzanne Oboler:

Jane Adams, "Race: Mississippi":

IV. Why they are concerned with cultural diversity.

Introduction:

Ishmael Reed:

Robin D.G. Kelley:

Suzanne Oboler:

Jane Adams, "Race: Mississippi":

© Jane Adams 2002