Writing Homework Help

For this essay, you will do the following:

• Explore and cite historical legal rulings and court cases which helped to create white dominant group status in the U.S.
• Apply various concepts in explaining race/ethnic policies in the U.S.
• Examine the consequences of the policies in racializing social life.
• Explain racial formation in the U.S.

Directions

Study and draw from the reading materials and the timeline provided. They are listed below for your convenience. 

• Who Invented White People? by Gregory Jay (Links to an external site.)
• Race Timeline: Explore Different Rules for Whites by PBS (Links to an external site.)
• White Immigrants Weren’t Always Considered White – And Acceptable by Brando Simeo Starkey (Links to an external site.)

Examining the Racial Timeline for the policies implemented by the U.S. government, identify and explain the cumulative outcome for White Anglo Saxon Protestant racial hegemony and and the subordination of minorities along the following:

1. Making White People; Racializing  Others
2. citizenship
3. race/ethnic relations
4. politics and power
5. social class formation
6. citizenship

Summary conclusion: End the analysis explaining away the differential impact of these historical institutional processes in shaping the social structure of the United States–more specifically, the  cumulative consequences of racialization on minorities in the U.S., social changes not withstanding.