Post an analysis of race, ethnicity, racial relations, and racism in your immediate environment and your experiences, addressing the following:
How does your racial and/or ethnic identity affect your life?
Share an example (or examples) of negative and/or positive race relations you have experienced or witnessed.
What is the source (historical, structural, political, cultural) of racism in your environment?
What underlying values support the nature of the race and ethnic group interaction you've observed?
How might positive social change be encouraged to improve race and ethnic group relations in your immediate context?
Marger, M. N. (2015). Race and ethnic relations: American and global perspectives(10th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.
Chapter 1, "Introduction: Some Basic Concepts" (pp. 3-26)
Pew Research Center. (2016c). Social & demographic trends: Race and ethnicity. Retrieved from https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/topics/race-and-ethnicity/
Understanding Prejudice. (2016a). Racism now [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.understandingprejudice.org/multimedia/racism-now.htm.