Author Question: Americans classified in racial terms as black are expected to identify as simply black or as of ... (Read 204 times)

Frost2351 · **on:** Jul 1, 2018

Americans classified in racial terms as black are expected to identify as simply black or as of African descent, even though they know they have ancestors of specific African and other ethnicities. This practice reinforces In th

a. racial purification. c. selective forgetting.
b. ethnic renewal. d. rationalization.

Question 2

Omi and Winant argue that anyone who lives in the United States must _________. That is, they must learn to give arbitrary biological features (skin color, hair texture) social significance

a. learn to not notice race
b. learn to see race
c. pretend that race is not important
d. come to see that race has no significance to life chances