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Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900

Driving Question: How have global movements for equality changed social and political structures over time?

Where we are does not necessarily define who we are. How we identify ourselves has evolved considerably as the world has become more interconnected. Modern societies are woven together with long-distance relationships, frequent migrations, and shifting ethnic, national, and religious affiliations. Since 1200, a lot has changed about who we think we are and where we think we should be. But a lot has stayed the same. In this section, you’ll examine some of the identity-driven conflicts in our modern world, exploring what happens when new identities collide with old traditions.

Learning Objectives

  1. Explain how social categories, roles, and practices have been maintained and challenged over time.
  2. Use close reading skills to investigate the role international organizations play in our globalized world and how people have responded to increasing globalization.

Vocab Terms:

  • civil disobedience
  • climate change
  • inequality
  • multinational
  • non-governmental organization
  • regulation
STEP 1

Opener: Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900

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STEP 2

The Trouble with Globalization

Does everyone benefit equally from globalization? Those who support globalization argue that it creates freedom and prosperity. But all around the world, many workers have had to shoulder the burdens of a world economy.

STEP 3

Movements to End Racial Injustice

Although great strides have been made to achieve social justice and racial equality, there is still a long road ahead.

STEP 4

Preserving the Past

The process of globalization threatens the existence of many Indigenous cultures and traditional ways of life. In this video, you will learn how the Pueblo and other Indigenous peoples are resisting globalization, and attempting to secure their past for their future.

Preserving the Past External link

Globalization and imperialism have impacted Indigenous American communities everywhere. Hear why and how the Pueblo people are fighting to reclaim their stories, ancestral remains, and sacred lands from institutions around the world.

Key Ideas

As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.
STEP 5

Global Feminism Movements

This article is in development and will be coming soon!

STEP 6

Universal Rights

As globalization has spread in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the concept of human rights has spread along with it. In theory, that’s a good thing. But, as with globalization, the practice of protecting human rights has often been more “lumpy” than universal.

STEP 7

UN Sustainable Development Goals

The United Nation (UN) created a list of goals intended to make the world a healthier place to live in terms of climate, social justice, and overall economic and social equality. Choose one of these goals and explore what would need to be done to support it.

STEP 8

Transnationalism and the Revival of Nationalism

Does national identity bring people together? Or can it be a divisive force? This article focuses on nationalism and transnationalism in our contemporary world, and how it impacts communities around the globe.

STEP 9

Closer: Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900

“Overall, globalization is good.” That’s quite the claim! Test it, and other claims, as you bring together all that you’ve learned about globalization.

Extension Materials
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Explore the effects of globalization on indigenous communities, as well as indigenous communities’ influences on the processes of globalization with the extension video.
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Indigenous Americans and Globalization

Indigenous Americans have played an important role in globalization since the beginning of the Columbian Exchange. Cultural and economic influences flowed both ways across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This video addresses some misconceptions about globalization and explores how the processes of globalization affected indigenous communities.

Indigenous Americans and Globalization External link

There are lots of misconceptions about globalization. Examining the relationship between Indigenous Americans and globalization helps us challenge those misconceptions.

Key Ideas

As this video progresses, key ideas will be introduced to invoke discussion.