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Concept of Race to Justify Inequality in the U.S

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Instructions for Writing the Essay Question (see checklist at the end of this document):
(You will lose points if you fail to follow these instructions)
1. Choose one question to answer from the options provided below.
2. The essay must be word-processed, double-spaced, paginated, no less than 750 words and no more than 850 words.
3. You must have a separate title page on which you include your name, date, descriptive essay title that clearly indicates the topic, question/prompt number, your LIB 133 section and instructor’s name, and the word count for your essay. The title page and works cited page text do NOT count towards the word count.
4. Your essay must have a thesis statement and be organized thematically, not by readings.
5. You must answer all parts of the question in order to get full credit for the essay.
6. Sources:
a. In your essay, you must use specific and substantive examples (through paraphrasing and quotes) from at least three readings from the Fall 2019 course syllabus. You may use additional sources from the syllabus, but only after you have used three readings from Unit II.
b. You may also incorporate additional examples from films and class lectures in your essay. Films and film transcripts do not count as readings. You may, however, refer to them once you have already used three readings from Unit II of the Fall 2019 syllabus.
c. PowerPoints do not count as readings, and information on them should not replace information that is in any of the readings.
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1. In the film Race: The Power of An Illusion: Episode One The Difference Between Us, evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin remarked that the ideology of race “…justifies the inequalities that exist in a society which is said to be based on equality.” Explain how the concept of race has been used to justify inequality in the United States for African Americans and Native Americans.
2. In his article “What We Mean When We Say 'Race Is a Social Construct,’” Ta-Nehisi Coates, agrees with critic Andrew Sullivan “that liberals should stop saying ‘truly stupid things like race has no biological element.’ I agree. Race clearly has a biological element -- because we have awarded it one.” Based on what you have read and viewed so far this semester, select three examples to explain Coates’ argument.
3. Many of the people whose work we have read (primary and secondary material) describe struggles with identity construction as a result of race. What role has the U.S. government (including the U.S. Supreme Court) played in determining racialized identity for Native Americans, immigrants and/or African Americans? What is the relationship between racialized identities and Americaness?
4. In the article “Best of Friends, Worlds Apart,” journalist Mirta Ojito documents how Cuban immigrant Joel Ruiz “often finds himself caught between two worlds. Whites see him simply as black. African-Americans dismiss him as Cuban. ‘They tell me I’m Hispanic…. He has started to refer to himself as Afro-Cuban.” Why has Ruiz chosen to refer to himself as Afro-Cuban? Why do whites and African Americans respectively see him differently? Be sure to discuss the concepts of race and ethnicity as socially-constructed categories in your response.

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Using the Concept of Race to Justify Inequality in the U.S for Africans Americans and Native Americans
The greatness of the United States of America is a pride of all Americans their descent notwithstanding. The citizens of the present U.S trace their origin to different parts of the world, the reason why sometimes it is referred to as the nation of many nations (Vargas). Ideally, the U.S is a country of people from multicultural background. It is made up of indigenous Americans, early immigrants of Scottish, Irish, English, Dutch, Japanese and African descent. Different people from different parts of the world immigrated into America in the early centuries settling in different parts of the present America. Among the races making up the United States, African Americans and Native Americans are the victims of inequality and discriminations of all types based on nothing sinister but their racial identity. This essay will discuss how the concept of race has been used to justify inequality in the United States for African Americans and Native Americans.
The emergence of racism or ideology of race is founded on human equality as necessary precondition. In other words, the rising of racism resulted from egalitarian principles coupled with exclusionary treatment of specific ethnic groups (Tucker n.p). Individual wealth creation and pursuit of social and economic good brought the African Americans and Native Americans at loggerheads with the whites. In the wake of social and economic struggles, whites viewed themselves as the foundation upon which the nation is built and therefore the rightful credit holders of the greatness of the United States. In essence there existed human equality among all Americans but it was an uncomfortable condition. There was an increasing urge for some degree of inequality but nothing could justify it. Race therefore became a common ground for social, economic and political benefits that excluded Native Americans and African Americans. Race became an effective tool for justifying the legitimacy of inequality and discriminatory practices.
In Mine state, predominantly occupied by European settlers since early 1950s, an executive order was issued by the Governor to ensure prudent use of welfare and social programs (Behren n.p). The order targeted non-Mainers who could potentially benefit from the programs. It was designed exclusively for the benefit of Mainers and not the illegal immigrants. The Native Americans leaving in the present New England bore the brunt of socio-economic inequality on the basis of racial classification. It was effected by nothing but the race of inhabitants of the northern region of the state. The inequality experienced by Native Americans in Maine is justified by the fact that the social programs were tailored for those with shared cultural identity. When race becomes the common denominator determining ...
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