What is the difference between race and ethnicity

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Question 1: Many people believe that race has always existed in its current form. How has the concept of race changed over time? Where does the idea of race come from according to Taylor's (2017) explanation and Golash-Boza's (2019) video? Compare and contrast "race" in the ancient world (this would include ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and early Christendom) with "race" in modern times (this would include European colonization up to the present).

Question 2: What is the difference between race and ethnicity? Which is voluntary and changeable, which is ascribed and less flexible?

Question 3: What does it mean that "race is a social construction" and not a biological reality? Why do you think most people continue to think of race as biological?

Question 4: According to the Race: the Power of an Illusion documentary, how did the racial definitions evolve over the US history? What do the famous legal cases of Bhagat Singh Thind and Takao Ozawa illustrate?

Question 5: How did the racial logic influence the waves of immigration to the US? How were the European migrants like the Irish, the Italians, the Jews, or the Slavs classified by race when they moved across the Atlantic to the US in the 19th - early 20th centuries?

Question 6: What is "red-lining"? What have its long-term impacts been?

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