Discuss the difference between race, ethnicity, and minorities, while illustrating how these are socially constructed concepts.
Explain the relationship between minority and dominant groups, including how dominant groups subjugate minority groups, how minority groups respond to conflict, and finally, how dominant groups utilize policies such as expulsion, segregation, assimilation, and cultural pluralism.
Analyze race, ethnicity and minorities using functionalist, conflict, and symbolic interactionist perspectives.
Discuss the differences between prejudice and discrimination, and illustrate how various racial and ethnic groups are negatively affected by prejudice and discrimination on the institutional and individual level.
Recall the historical legacies of various racial and ethnic groups in the United States and appraise their experience in the United States today.
Distinguish the experience of white ethnics and immigrants from other racial and ethnic immigrant groups and analyze how white privilege confers certain benefits and advantages onto whites that minorities are denied.
