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Identify the question number, but do not write the questions. Your answers should be primarily based on the reading assigned

• You can strengthen your arguments by doing library research.

• When you use external sources, you must use scholarly articles in the peer reviewed journals ( wright state database )

• you may cite the specific concept, phrase, or sentence in the reading or other course materials when you support your arguments. Don't cite a long sentence; it shouldn't be more than 15words in each direct citation. Make sure that you identify the page number so that I can verify your supporting evidence in the reading ( the book )

• Each your answer should be brief and to the point (approximately 70-100 words).You must state word countat the end of each answer (e.g., Word Count: 85). Your paper should adhere to appropriate standards of organization, spelling, and grammar; that is, it should be formatted in complete sentences and paragra

The questions are

Question 1. From sociological perspective, there is no biological basis for distinguishing among human groups along the lines of race; rather race is a social construction.

• (1) Explain the idea of race as 2social construction (or racial formation) discussed in two readings and the film "Race: Power of an Illusion, and
• (2) illustrate it with examples.

Question 2. Based on the film, The Eye of the Storm,

• (1) identify the key elements of racism,and
• (2) discuss the mechanism through which racial discrimination reinforce racial stereotypes and racial inequality.*Film: Eye of the Storm

Question 3. discusses four models that provide answers to a question: How should members of different ethnic groups related to one another? Among them,

• (1) describe what group separatism is,
•  (2) discuss how group separatism is different from racial segregation in the United States.*Required Reading: "Models of American Ethnic Relations"

Question 4. Why were Africans enslaved but not American Indians or Europeans? Specifically, what arethe key variables (according to Noel Hypothesis and Blauner Hypothesis)that explain why Africans were enslaved instead of the other groups?*Required Reading: "The Development of Dominant-Minority Group Relations in Preindustrial America"

Question 5. What are the main features of the Jim Crow system of race relations?

• (2) What were the causes of the Jim Crow system?