What is Race? What is Ethnicity? Smedley (Page 46 – 55).

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What is Race? What is Ethnicity? Smedley (Page 46 – 55).

What is Race? What is Ethnicity? Smedley (Page 46 – 55).

Answer the question

Paper instructions:
Short answers. Give responses based on the assigned reading and video programs.
The Meaning of Difference, What is Race? What is Ethnicity? Smedley (Page 46 – 55).
1. According to Smedley, why was the classification of “Race” created?
The Meaning of Difference, What’s Class Got to Do with It. Zweig (Page 131 – 134), The Meaning of              Difference, The Gendered Society, Kimmel (Page 113–

122).
2. Explain the three types of classes in the US mentioned by the author. (Zweig)
3. What is the difference between earned and unearned privileges? Give examples for both. (Kimmel)
Immigration and the New Immigrants – Program 5
4. Point out some results of the demographic changes in the US.
Video program:  Race: The World’s Most Dangerous Myth – Program 6
5. Discuss the three contexts of “Race”.
Video program:  Native Americans – Program 9
6. What are the major core values of Native Americans?
7. What is the difference between assimilation and acculturation?
8. Explain blood quantum.

Material:
Karen E. Rosenblum and Toni-Michelle C. Travis, The Meaning of Difference: American Construction of Race, Sex and gender, Social Class, Sexual Orientation, and

Disability. 6th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2012.