Defination of RaceW.1

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· How does this view compare with the traditional, biological view of race?

· What are motivating factors for early Americans to construct race and racial categories? 

· Which approach - assimilation, melting pot, fusion and/or pluralism - matches most closely to the new definition of race in contemporary America?

· Which definition of race do you support?  Why?