1. Race is not biological, but racism is still real.(K.S)

2. Slavery predates Race.(KS)

3. Humans subspecies don't exsist but we among the most similar of all species.(CF)

4.The genes for skin color have nothing to do with genes for hair texture, eye shape, and blood type.(CF)

5. Colorblindless will not end rasicm pretending race does not exsist is not thee same as creating equality.(MA)

6.Most variation is within, not between races.(MA0

Vocabulary:

Subspecies: A sub division of a species especially a geographical subdivision.(CF)

Gene: Unit of heredity transfered from parents off spring that determines some characteristic of the off spring.(CF)

Race:a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.(MA)

Ethnicity:a social group that shares a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, or the like.(KS)

1. Race is a social idea, meaning humans give it meaning. (CF)

2. In 1960 people classified race simply by looking at them. (CF)

3. Skin color is measured by looking at the inside of a person's arm. (MA)

4. There are 4 major types of fingerprints. (MA)

5. The federal government recognizes 6 major racial and ethnic categories. (KS)

6. The loop fingerprint is the most common. (KS)

Vocabulary

Multiracial- Made up of or relating to people of many races. (MA)

Affiliation- To assign the origin of. (CF)

Subcontinent- A large distinguishable part of a continent. (CF)

Discrimination- Prejudicial treatment of different categories of people. (KS)

1. Mexicans were classified as white until 1930. (MA)

2.Race is a modern idea, it hasn't always been with us.(KS)

3. In the early years of the American Colonies, the majority of workers were poor indentured servants from england.(CF)

4. During Virginia's first century, 100,000 of the 130,000 English men who crossed the Atlantic were indentured servants.(MA)

5.In colonial America, Africans weren't enslaved because they were thought to be inferior.(KS)

6.The word "Slave" comes from the word "Slav".(CF)

Vocabulary:

Indentured Servants: a labor system where people payed for their passage to the new world by working for an employer.(CF)

Overseer: a person who supervises others.(MA)

Enslaved: to make someone a slave. (KS)

Descrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.(KS

1.There is not one gene, trait, or characteristic that distinguishes all members of one race from all members of another.(KS) 2.Penguins have twice as much genetic diversity as humans.(MA) 3.If you go back ten generations, you have up to 1,024 ancestors.(CF) 4. Modern humans didn't emerge until 150,000-200,000 years ago in eastern Africa.(MA)

5.It takes a long time to accumulate a lot of genetic variation, because new variants arise only through mutation - copying errors from one generation to the next.(KS)

6.Fruit flies have ten times as much genetic diversity as humans.(CF)

Vocabulary:

Accumulate: gather or equire an increasing number or quantity of. (CF)

Interbreed:(with reference to an animal) breed or cause to breed with another of a different race or species.(MA)

Attune: to make receptive or aware.(CF)

Inequality: The condition of being unequal.(KS)

1. One of the most famous symbols of American culture is the melting pot.

2. 50-80% of one's lifetime wealth depends on opportunities created by past generations.

3. The greatest social and economic inequalities have risen from institutional structures giving benefits to one race at the extent of others.

4. Racism is not just about personal slurs and animosity.

5. 86% of available jobs do not appear in the classified ads and personal connections prove the most important fact in securing employment.

6. As long as buisness owners and managers are predominatly white and people continue to live in homogenous communities, the job market will perpetuate existing inequalities along racial lines.

7.Rarely confronted with matters of race, many of the white people we interviewed argued race is no longer an issue. However, other interviewees acknowledged that white identity was really about enjoying an advantage over nonwhites in society.(Ks)

8.One of the most famous symbols of American culture is the melting pot. But as sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva points out, historically European ethnics were the only ones allowed to "melt into the pot."(KS)

9.Americans share more than a journey from different places of origin. They share the controversial history of a nation founded on principles of equality that also built a social and economic hierarchy based on race. 

Vocabulary

Blatant: Bad behavior done openly and unashamedly.

Animosity: Strong hostility.

Predominantly: For the most part.

Perpetuate: To make something continue indefinitely.

Diversity: The state of being diverse(KS)

Multicultural: Constituting several cultural or ethnic groups within a society.(KS)

2. Across the nation, four out of five whites live outside of the cities and 86 percent of whites live in neighborhoods where minorities make up less than 1 percent of the population. In contrast, 70 percent of Blacks and Latinos live in the cities or inner-ring suburbs.

3. Whites are still the most segregated of all racial groups, have the largest suburban presence and are most likely to own their homes. African Americans continue to be highly segregated and as Latinos and Asians gain a larger share of the population, they are becoming increasingly segregated from whites as well. 

4. In 1992, The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston released a study showing that Black and Latino mortgage applicants are 60 percent more likely to be turned down for loans than whites, even when they share similar employment and financial backgrounds.

5. When the federal government stepped in to make it possible for most Americans to finance the purchase of their own home, they essentially paved the way for millions of average white Americans to begin their own wealth-building.

6. Race, wealth and life opportunities are intertwined in the United States. Today, white and nonwhite communities are still "separate and unequal" and the gap continues to grow, long after the Civil Rights era.

Vocabulary

Minorities: Immigrant or racial group regarded by those claiming to speak for the cultural majority as distinct and unassimilated

Segregated: Separated or divided

Integrated: Having been integrated, in particular.

Discriminatory: making or showing an unfair or prejudicial distinction between different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex