Chapter 01 Web Exercises

Questions to ponder as you complete these activities:

  1. Would the idea of race and the forces of racism have crystallized into what we have today without slavery and colonization?
  2. What do you think are the key moments in the development of the concept of race?
  3. Which images in the websites do you find especially poignant in the history of race?

 

Web Exercise One:  

Countries differ in their racial classification systems and sometimes change the categories of race more frequently than we might notice. Visit the following websites and identify the ways race meanings are in flux or are fluid and differ in time and place, even including when the racial identity of persons change over their own lifetimes.

 

Web Exercise Two: Historical Timeline and Race

Go to http://www.understandingrace.org/history/

Browse the timeline, the associated images, and articles. Think about what would have happened with race and people experiencing race if events on the timeline turned out differently.

 

Web Exercise Three: Documents on Survival in the Midst of Racism

We can examine documents of how groups categorized and marginalized by race resisted their racist victimization. Why are the following four websites important for understanding the coping and survival of people trying to survive a racist society?

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