Choose ONE question to answer

1. How has the model minority label been utilized and in response to what major events? What have been its contradictions?
2. What did the internal colonialism framework respond to and what were the framework’s limits?
3. What frameworks/theories that have been covered so far best explain contemporary society? Or, would today’s realities render all of them incompatible? Please explain.
4. Why did Katznelson, among others, argue that the New Deal was affirmative action for whites?
5. In reaction to civil rights, what was the white backlash that remains most critical today? Why?
6. What social current best exemplifies (or best debunks) Omi and Winant’s Racial Formation theory?