Ethics

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Appendix E

Part I

Define the following terms:

|Term |Definition |

|Racial formation |Is the process which socio-historical designations of race are created and manipulated. |

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

|De jure segregation |“By Law” Segregation |

|Pluralism |A place in which people of all racial and ethnic categories have about the same social standing. |

|Assimilation |A process in which the minorities adopt the cultural patterns of 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 majority has been White; the places they are from are from European backgrounds. Wherever there was a major city there was a white majority from the inception of the US to about the 1960’s. After the civil right law went into effect, there were areas that were now open to all races; no one could deny them the right to live where they wanted to live. Today are places even today that are majority white, there might be a lot of Germanic descendants, Jewish descendants, Irish and Scottish. There were a multitude of “Races” that came here from European countries, by far I think that Irish and Scottish and Danish and German immigrants were the most common. Those four “Races” were proliferating the landscape, by way of exploring, gold rushes, land grabs, etc. My Fiancé is Scottish, Germanic, English, and two Native American nationalities. This is the average...