Racism+Notes

1. Define race, ethnicity, and diversity?

Race: a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics Ethnicity:of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background Diversity:composed of distinct or unlike elements or qualities

1. What was the racial and ethnic makeup of the United States in the 1800's?

The racial makeup in the United States was very discrimminating. Blacks were still suffering from slavery and treated as three fifths of a person. The white people looked at themselves as greater then the enslaved black people.. Unless the blacks lived in the north they had no credibility.

1. What racial and ethnic movement (in terms of geography) was there during this period and what were the causes? 1. In the United States? 2. Between countries and continents? 2. Describe the relationship between different racial and ethnic groups: 1. In the North 2. In the South 3. Pre-Civil War 4. Post-Civil War 5. Under Romanticism 6. Under Transcendentalism 3. What elements of the countries racial and ethnic makeup are present in Moby Dick? 4. How do these elements contribute to the plot and structure of the novel? 5. What historic parallels in regards to race and ethnicity are present in the novel? 6. How do these elements of race and ethnicity help to create the underlying class warfare that the story of Moby Dick describes?