Answer the following reading questions in full sentences. I will attach the needed resources for this assignment down below.
1. How does this knowledge help you to understand the socioeconomic disparities among different racial and ethnic groups in this country? How might this reality shape your personal relationship with people of different racial or ethnic backgrounds?
2. How was whiteness been legally constructed? What did it mean for new immigrant groups like the Irish, Italians, and Jews to be considered white?
3. How has race, historically, played a role in defining who is and who can become an American?
After reading pages 219-236 of The 1619 Project, Chapter 8: Citizenship, answer the following questions.
4. Before reading Chapter 8: Citizenship, have you ever heard of “colonization,” a plan to remove black Americans from the United States? What does the plan to remove black Americans reveal about the history of race and citizenship in the United States?
5. Select a significant passage from chapter 8 and explain how this particular passage helps you to understand the legacy of racism and white supremacy in the United States?