Author Question: Mary Waters' concepts of ethnic options refers to the: a. various ways in which ethnic groups are ... (Read 44 times)

cookcarl · **on:** Aug 7, 2018

Mary Waters' concepts of ethnic options refers to the:

a. various ways in which ethnic groups are classified in a multiethnic society.
b. hierarchical arrangement of racial and ethnic groups in American society.
c. power of the dominant group in classifying new immigrant groups.
d. tendency for individuals to make choices about their ethnic identity.

Question 2

Carl, a white American, is doing a school presentation for his history class after which he is asked to share his own ethnic heritage. He is stumped. He has heard offhand that he has ancestors from Germany and Ireland, and that he might even have a little Native American blood, but has never seen proof of such. Lieberson and Waters (1988) would call Carl a(n):

a. homogenous white.
b. unhyphenated white.
c. undifferentiated white.
d. pluralistic white.