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After reading Chapter 1, students should be able to:
- understand the limits to trying to make sense of race as a biological concept.
- understand why subordinating and incorporating the idea of race into a broad definition of ethnicity is more useful.
- understand that race and ethnicity are socially constructed labels and categories.
- understand how these socially constructed labels and categories shape the lives of members of ethnic subpopulations.
- understand how power shapes ethnic relations.
- describe the relationship between prejudice and discrimination.
- understand the concept of institutional discrimination.
- demonstrate how institutionalized discrimination produces ethnic stratification.
- describe and provide examples of the different kinds of responses to discrimination.
- understand the difference between visible resistance and hidden resistance.
- understand how resource shares are important in understanding ethnic conflict.
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