Solved: Reaction Assignment: “Racial Formations” by Omi and Winant, “Optional Ethnicities: ForWhites Only?” by M. C. White, and The Asset Value of Whiteness: Understanding the RacialWealth Gap by Traub, Sullivan, Meschede, and Shapiro

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Read the assigned readings (posted in the content section of this course AND in the syllabus)
and write a 500 – 600 word response to this reading, utilizing both your reaction to the
reading and the guided questions below:

  1. Describe the processes by which race has been socially and historically constructed in the
    United States.
  2. How were racial hierarchies constructed and embedded in law?
  3. What is “racial formation” as defined and described by the authors?
  4. What is referred to as symbolic ethnicity? Explain this.
  5. How is the racial wealth gap maintained and institutionalized in federal policies in the United
    States.
  6. What factors contribute to this racial wealth gap as discussed by the authors? Describe
    these factors.
  7. What is “redlining” as defined and described by the authors?
    Remember a minimum of 500 words is required, and 600 words is the maximum

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