Ethnic Studies Chapter 1 Summary

In chapter 1 in the beginning of the book, they had talked about how nobody really knows about ethnic studies. They had said from the book that “Most academics outside the discipline, whether faculty, students, or administrators, have little or no understanding of what ethnic studies really is, or what its practitioners actually do” (Allen, page 1). I find this crazy that this is a field nobody knows about but there is a reason to why nobody really knows. The reason why is because when a lot of people were interested in going to college, there weren’t a lot of courses that were offering ethnic studies. If the college did have did have ethnic study classes, they weren’t part of the general education credits. In ethnic studies there’s a model called hypothetical model and it helps show the process of being introduced to new thing as well as showing how confusing things work. “The key to here is remember that new things are confusing cause of a lack of context within which to understand them” (Allan, page 3)” Everyone learns at their own speed and not everyone can remember things as easily as others. “We realize we are asking you to learn a great deal of new, disparate information from many …show more content…
This textbook wants us to learned and apply what we are learning. Learning is not hearing exactly what we already think about what we already know and saying it over again. They really encourage us to learn more about this field and find the textbook more helpful and interesting. “We hope anyone reading this text will gain an appreciation for ethnic studies and its role in the realm of ideas and professional practice” (Allen, page 6). A lot of textbooks start out by saying the definitions to words but in this text, they are putting them in the middle of the text. They did this because it is there way of offering students a different way to