Problem
What is Race? What is Ethnicity Continued?
READ:
An Interlocking Panethnicity: The Negotiation of Multiple Identities among Asian American Social Movement Leaders, Dana Y. Nakano
WRITING TOPIC:
1. What are ways to measure panethnic solidarity?
2. What are some of the mechanisms for creating an interlocking panethnicity?
READ:
Latino Racial Choices: The Effects of Skin Colour and Discrimination on Latinos' and Latinas' Racial Self-Identifications, Tanya Golash-Boza and William Darity, Jr.
WRITING TOPIC:
1. What impact does discrimination have on choosing a racial identity?
2. Do you think that money will ever be more important than skin color in the United State? Why or Why not?
READ:
Whiteness as an 'Unmarked' Cultural Category, Ruth Frankenberg
WRITING TOPIC:
1. Why is whiteness considered to be lacking diversity?
2. How would you describe the cultural content of whiteness?