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Question 1. Identify three ways in which present-day society mirrors seventeenth-, eighteenth-, or nineteenth-century America. Look for parallels in the realm of culture (recycled ideas, stereotypes, fears), politics (similar issues, agendas, practices) and everyday life (job market, romantic relationships, recurrent social problems).

Question 2. how have Asians been systematically privileged or disadvantaged racially throughout American history? How do you think Asians' lives have been privileged or disadvantaged because of this? In other words, how are the social positions of Asians in the U.S. shaped by historical forces?

Question 3. How does the history reviewed in this chapter compare to the history of early America that you learned elsewhere? Meditate on the reasons for such similarities and differences.

Question 4. In The History of Race in America,, which parts do you feel often are forgotten by people in your life? Why do you think that is? What do you think would change if this history was remembered?