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Please type your responses—double-spaced with one-inch margins. CITE any material you use. ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS. (It is advisable to have one citation per page and a minimum of five pages).
- The first chapter defines segregationists, assimilationists, and antiracists. Define each with historical examples from the text.
- Can a person have racist, segregationist, and antiracist ideas all at once? Explain with historical examples from the text.
- Give a critical assessment of Cornel West’s argument in the chapter, “A Genealogy of Modern Racism.” (Meaning: give a very brief sketch of his argument; then, give an example of how the normative gaze has day-to-day consequence for people of color in America. Finally, and more importantly, critically discuss the chapter’s strengths and weaknesses.
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Segregation, Racism, and Assimilation
Segregationists, Assimilationists, and Antiracists
In simple definitions, segregationists are people who hate others for being different.
Segregation in history is the act of separating people based on their racial lines. From the text,
racial segregation is the division of people into an ethnic and racial category. Segregationists
create different social classes and force distinct institutions like hospitals and schools among the
various ethnic and racial groups (Davis, 2016). In African history, racial segregation is visible in
South Africa during the apartheid regime. Segregationists in the era made sure racial
discrimination was assimilated to the country's constitution and allowed for segregation of
whites and nonwhites in South African. Segregationists force nonwhites South Africans to live in
different areas that were less good than whites in South Africa and attended different schools.
Assimilationists are people who like people that like them and are ready to conform to
their behavior and traditions. Assimilationists aimed to promote the lives of Black people by
providing them with equal chances as whites. From the text, assimilationists majorly aim to
change people's cultural norms to try and emulate their own culture. In American history, Henry
Knox and George Washington were the first assimilationists to champion for the native
Americans to change their cultural norms. The two assimilationists encouraged native Americans
to change their culture through the famous civilizing process.
The French also heavily engaged in the Assimilation process in their colon...
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