Race and Ethnicity

What is Cultural origin?

What is your ethnic group?

• Hispanic

• Asian

• African American

• Other

What are racial characteristics?

• skin color

• hair texture

• Common ancestry

• moral attributes

True or False

People of all types of skin color exist in America, Asia and Europe

Before the 1920s European immigrants were not considered White.

True or False

Which ethnic immigrant groups were considered to be socially and culturally lower classed by White Americans in the 19 century?

• Italians

• Irish

• Polish

• German