ETST 001, Introduction to the Study of Race and Ethnicity

For the final paper, it may be helpful to consider: the influence of racial

ideologies, from the turn of the twentieth century through the early twenty-first century;

inclusion, exclusion, and social, educational, and residential segregation; ethnicity and

assimilation; white identity and cultural pluralism; race and politics; the post-Civil Rights

period; multiculturalism.

Institutional means institutions, like educational, governmental, or military

institutions, while systemic means systems, like the legal, criminal justice, economic, or

political systems. Regarding the relationship between institutional and systemic, consider

how slavery, as an institution, supported a particular system, the plantation economy;

how the Bureau of Indian Affairs, as an institution, supports the reservation system; and

how the Federal Housing Administration, as an institution, supports the private real estate

market.