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Read silently and then pause to answer each of the following
questions in your group.
Read the questions to
ponder section at the beginning, then answer the following:
1. Is the first
question a valid question? Why or why not? Answer below, then share with your
group.
Read the first page (9, on the handout). Then discuss question 3 and 4 and write your
answers below.
3. What does it mean
to be “one-thirty second black”?
4. Do you think
one-thirty second black should mean someone is considered black? If so, why?
If not, why not, and what should
be the demarcation for being considered black?
Read page 10. Then
answer as a group:
5. What does
polygenesis mean? What are the ways
Europeans would treat people differently based on idea of polygenesis – list at
least 3.
6. How do biologists
and anthropologists feel about the idea of race?
Read page 11.
7. What does the
author mean by “race is indeed a pre-eminently socio-historical concept”?
8. What does
“hypo-descent” mean?
Read page 12.
9. How does
classification of race differ in Brazil?
10. What does
“passing” mean?
11. How do people use race in everyday life?
Read page 13. Then
discuss as a group.
12. What are at least
three non-biological assumptions that race provides about an individual in the
U.S.?
Read 14 and 15. Then
discuss these as a group:
13. What role has
race played in economics?
14. What is the
author’s thesis? Explain it.
