The Historical and modernity of Race

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Instructions

Guidelines for Reading Responses:

Submit your Reading Response by the due date by clicking on the above link. I recommend composing your submission in a word processing program and then pasting your essay into Blackboard. Click “Create Thread” to post your essay. Do not reply to another student’s thread—instead, create your own discrete thread. Title your posting with your name.

Responses should be edited carefully for correct essay writing conventions including: full sentences, proper grammar and spelling, adequate paragraphing, and well-organized points. This also requires employment of a clean academic citation style. In-text citations in APA style should be used when paraphrasing a specific idea from a specific page in a reading; when directly quoting a passage in a reading; and when mentioning an author’s work. APA style always includes the author’s last name, the year of the publication, and the page number(s) for the idea or passage being citing. For example: (author last name, year, p. page number). For the bibliography, please copy the citation style used in the Course Schedule (Readings and Assignments Overview) menu. More information about APA style can be found here: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/in_text_citations_the_basics.html

Please answer the below prompt in a 500-700 word essay:

The two texts this week offer us different lenses for approaching the concept of race and the theoretical language we use to understand it. Quintana et al. (2006) curate a set of themes that matters when considering race alongside child development: how does race affects development, what do children and youth believe about race, and how does identity form in terms of racial consciousness. They are concerned with the ways that race, ethnicity, culture, and immigration status are problematically conflated, and with the methods and measures used to assess racial experience. Likewise, Winant (2000) explores the limits of ethnicity, class, and nation -based models of perceiving race. As a sociologist, he is interested in the continuing salience of race in an era where racism is universally condemned on a marco, political scale, yet continues to infuse relations of everyday inequality at micro scales. Both texts are historical in scope, and focus on what has changed and what might be coming next.

A couple decades have passed since the publication of these summaries, yet what still holds true for you in terms of their analyses of the necessary ingredients for a contemporary race theory framework? Situate your response in historical and present context, providing a summary of at least two key changes in the concept of race noted by each author. Meanwhile, also compare their agendas: what perspectives do the authors share in common and what differences did you note in their approaches? Conclude your essay with a paragraph exploring how race might be understood differently today. What aspects of the articles help you to understand modern day experiences of race, and what aspects seemed out of step with our current moment?

You will be graded on the following criteria:

Responds to the prompt... (1.5 points)

...in an analytically sophisticated manner... (3 points)

...that explicitly cites the reading(s)... (1.5 points)

...and is well-written. (1.5 points)