Eth125 Appendix E

University of Phoenix Material

Appendix E Due Wed, June 13, 2012

Part I

Define the following terms:

|Term |Definition |

|Racial formation |Processes in which racial categories are created, inhibited, transformed, and destroyed. |

|Segregation |the physical and social separation of categories of people |

|De jure segregation |Law enforcing segregation |

|Pluralism |a state in which people of all racial and ethnic categories have about the same overall social |

| |standing |

|Assimilation |the process by which minorities gradually adopt cultural patterns from the dominant majority |

| |population |

Part II

Answer the following questions in 150 to 350 words each:

• Throughout most of U.S. history in most locations, what race has been the majority? What is the common ancestral background of most members of this group?

The Caucasian race has been the majority in most places throughout the United States. People that are perceived a “white” is population majority in the United States for an extended amount of time. There are many different ethnicities that make up the Caucasian race. Immigrants from many areas in Europe migrated to the United States in the early time of the United States.

Most of the Caucasians that are in the United States are of German decent. Many of the Germans in the United States immigrated here for religious freedom as well as economical motivation for a better...