In “The Study of Race and Ethnic Conflict” the main idea of the article seems to be to get students to understand different racial and ethnic terms that are used and why they are used in different ways. It also seems to be to help students to understand the terminology that they will be reading throughout the book and its articles. It seems very void of opinion and other direct questions other than to says that the only steady thing that America has done to consistently separate whites and minorities is to offer no way for whites to consider themselves as anything but white.
On all census information and questionnaires the basic questions about race that we are used to answering are flawed because they offer only ways for people to distinguish th
The authors also make the point that while many different venues of study have all different ideas and that the people within those venues have ideas that differ from one another, students should realize this and not take any one idea or area of study to be the exact and perfect truth.
The fourth and final section talks about “no sharp distinction between race, ethnicity, and national origin.” Many Americans consider themselves to be of one ethnicity or race, but that does not mean that they just stepped off the boat into this country and are new comers. Many families have been here for a very long time and the questions being asked do not allow people to make distinctions between what they consider to be their race, ethnicity, or national origi
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