Question 1

What are the major differences between the Brazilian and the U.S. systems of racial classification?

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Question 2

Why aren't most nation-states homogeneous? How do countries vary in their ethnic compositions in different regions the world?

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Question 3

Describe the political aspect of ethnicity. Give examples. How is multiculturalism an attempt to depoliticize ethnicity? (Start out with a careful definition of what you mean by political.)

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Question 4

Why are forms of mass media such as print and television important to the existence of what Benedict Anderson calls an imagined community? How are new communication technologies supporting or changing what Anderson may mean by this term?

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Question 5

What is meant by the phrase "the social construction of race"? How does this concept differ from race as perceived by the average middle-class American? (Use the description given in the text.)

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Question 6

What is an "imagined community"? Explain how social roles such as ethnicity and nationality are important to this concept.

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Question 7

What is hypodescent? Why is it an arbitrary rule of racial classification? What are the effects of this rule in American society?

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Question 8

The second half of the 20^th century saw a great increase in the significance of ethnicity as a factor in regional and world identity politics. What are the historical, social, and cultural reasons for this?

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Question 9

Racial classification is a political issue. Compare the Canadian census in its treatment of racial categories to the U.S. census. What do you think would be the political consequences of using one census over another? The election of Barack Obama to the U.S. presidency in 2008 has rekindled many public discussions on race in the United States. What is the substance of these discussions? What are the terms of the debate?

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Quiz 15: Ethnicity and Race