Question: Define race and ethnicity.

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Question: How genetically similar are humans to each other? What 3 reasons explain why groups of people appear different from each other (“races”).

Answer: 3 reasons are environment adaptation, random genetic drift, and population mixing.

Question: Explain why “race” is considered a social construction. What does it mean to say that “race” is not real scientifically? What makes “race” real as a social construction? Explain this answer carefully and with support from assigned material.

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Question: Define racism. Give an example of both traditional and modern racism.

Answer: Racism is the belief that members of separate races possess different and unequal human traits. Traditional racism is beliefs in biological inferiority like the whites are superior to the Latinos. Modern racism is seeing that racism is wrong but not recognizing the institutional inequality.

Question: Explain and discuss the theory of social Darwinism and explain how it influenced the development of the eugenics movement. (Note - you will need to describe what the eugenics movement was about to answer this question)

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