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Appendix E

Part I

Define the following terms:

Term Definition
Racial formation The process where individuals are divided and categorized by mutable rules into different racial categories.

Segregation The physical and social separation of categories of people.
De jure segregation By law segregation. Races have their own hotels, buses, and restaurants.

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

Assimilation The process by which minorities gradually adopt cultural patterns from 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?

Throughout most of U.S. history the white race has been the majority. This race is majority because of the social standards they have not just because of the population. The white race was the first settlers in the new land. As known, the most common ancestral background of most members of this group is European. Europeans came to this land for new life opportunities. They were able to come together and form their own country and boundaries because they broke ties off with their European rulers.

• What are some of the larger racial minorities in U.S. history? What have been the common ancestral backgrounds of each of these groups? When did each become a significant or notable minority group?

The white race, which is made up of both Hispanic Americans and the Non-Hispanic is the larger racial minorities. Hispanic Americans make up 85% of the population and Non-Hispanics make 79%. White people are categorized as people who have very light skin pigmentation.

• In what ways have laws been