Assignment task: Review the below article and respond to the following.
Article: Slavery, and the Idea of Race by California Newsreel
Article: Origin of the Idea of Race by Audrey Smedley
Q1. What is the difference between a biological and a social view of race? On both articles
Q2. Why is it impossible to use biological characteristics to sort people into consistent races? Review some of the concepts such as "non-concordance" and "within-group vs. between-group variation."On both articles
Q3. Anthropologist Alan Goodman says that "to understand why the idea of race is a biological myth requires a major paradigm shift." Do you agree? Did the film present anything that shifted your thinking in a major way? If so, what? Is it difficult to make this shift? Why? On both articles
Q4. Towards the end of this episode, the students are asked if they would trade their skin color. Would you trade your skin color? How do you think your life would be different if you looked like someone of a different race? On both articles
Q5. Compare and contrast on both articles
Reference the articles.