Race and Ethnicity Defined

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Deadline: February 9th at 1pm (miami,FL)

Instructions: Write a 5-10 pages, double-spaced, critical essay in response to the questions listed below. The questions require you to refer to the readings so far covered in week 2, 3, and 4. Lectures notes can be used as references, but should not constitute your essay.Â

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 Question:

“Race and Ethnicity Defined” In light of current debates about race, being a biological reality or a social construct, how have these debates shaped our views about the nature of ethnicity and consequently defined ethnic identity as found in the readings and as discussed in class?

To what extent, do you think, have these debates influenced the formation of ethnic groupings and shaped ethnopolitical conflicts?

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Get information from the below reading to support, clarify your point Shreeve, James. “Terms of Estrangement.” Discover 15, no. 11 (November 1994). Hudson, J. Blaine. 1995. “Scientific Racism: The Politics of Tests, Race and Genetics.” The Black Scholar 25 (1). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 3–10 Pierport, Claudia Roth. “The Measure of America.” The New Yorker Magazine, March 8, 2004, 48-63. Gans, Herbert. “Symbolic Ethnicity: the future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America.” In Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader. Edited by Werner Sollars. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1996, pp. 425-459. Horowitz, Donald. “A Family Resemblance.” In Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985, chapter 2, pp. 55-92. Kim, Claire Jean. “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans.” Politics and Society 27, no. 1 (March 1999): 105-138.