HISTORY REFLECTION PAPER.

Finding Your Roots worksheet

Segregation in California 1. In the video, Jessica Alba’s DNA analysis shows that her ancestry is quite diverse, yet she states that she strongly identifies with her Mexican American heritage. How do you think someone’s identity forms? 2. In what ways were Mexicans and whites segregated in Jessica Alba’s lifetime? 3. In the video, how does Jessica Alba describe how her grandmother’s siblings were selected for either the white school or the Mexican school? 4. What does that selection process reveal about how people define “race” or “ethnicity”?