Ethnicity and Race
In addition to the course content, where appropriate, you may also draw on your personal experience, observations and other relevant sources information to provide an adequate response to each question.
Your response to each question must be about one full page (double spaced) or 500-700 words/question.
1. Discuss salient features of ethnicity as an aspect of cultural diversity in the US.
2. Bases on this week’s course material, discuss at least two important changes (conceptual, political, economic, cultural, etc.) as regards how ethnicity affects a person’s life in the US society at present and/or historically.
3. Based on A. Goodman’s article (and other course materials), explain why or how understanding race and racism as sociopolitical realities that have biological consequences is a new and radical biocultural agenda.
4. Critically assess the argument that race is not a useful shorthand for human variation (or difference).
5. After explaining what is meant by cultural construction of race, compare OR contrast cultural constructions of race in the US and in Brazil.
