STEP 1. Write out a summary of the main points from the textbook by Richard Rothstein (2017)
entitled The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. You began
reading the various chapters of this book during Week 7.
You will determine the word count for your STEP 1.
Your Assignment 3 should a) Mention the title and the author b) State what the main argument or assertion and
the purpose for writing the book c) What information and evidence does the author provide in the various
chapters, to convince us that the contents of the book are accurate, true and correct? d) This book tends to aim
a focus on segregation in Urban cities. Which racial or ethnic group(s) does the book
seem to highlight most? e) In addition to the book, using the course materials, write out several paragraphs,
showing how the information in the book may also be applied to explain the dynamics and consequences of
segregation for Native Americans, and Hispanic Latin@/Chica@o Americans, and Asian Americans.
Please Remember to add the book to your References list, at the end of your Assignment 3.
References
Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (New
York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2017)
STEP 2. Write out a brief summary of the reading entitled “White by Law” by Ian F. Hanley Lopez (2000).
This part of your Assignment 3 should explain: a) What does the author state, in this article? b) What proof
does this article contain that race and/or ethnicity rules were created through law? c) Which racial or ethnic
groups were intended to be impacted by the law(s) or policies mentioned in this article? d) What impact did the
law(s) mentioned in the article have upon people and on society? e) When and how did the law(s) mentioned
come to an end? You may need to go online to locate addition information to help you provide some type of
response to these STEP 2 questions.
Please Remember to add the book to your References list, at the end of your Assignment 3.
References
Lopez, Ian F. Hanley (2000) “White by Law” in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (2nd ed.) by Richard
Delgado and Jean Stefancic (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000).
STEP 3. How might the information provided in the book by Rothstein and the article by Lopez provide
support for the perspective which suggests that Affirmative Action policies in the U.S. are necessary?
STEP 4. How might the information provided in the book by Rothstein and the article by Lopez provide
support for the perspective which suggests that race and ethnicity were socially constructed?
STEP 5. Add in information from Learning Modules 1, 2 and 3 to create several explanatory paragraphs to add
to your Assignment 3 document. Be sure to mention the Learning Modules while writing information about what
they state.
STEP 6. Explain what you learned from the above course study materials (in STEP 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5). In your
written response state: What do these sources of information all have in common? Write out 2 or more
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statements to answer this question.
STEP 7. Create a title that shows the reader of your Assignment 3 what to expect after reading it.
STEP 8. Include a references or works cited list. Feel free to use references listed on our Syllabus. Also create
Bold blue font headings and subheadings so that I can see where you are fulfilling each part of the instructions.
STEP 9. Choose 3 of the Week 7 research terms. Discuss what they mean in several paragraphs which will
help to make up your Assignment 3. Those terms were as follows:
Research Terms:
• 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, U.S. Constitution
• The Missouri Compromise of 1820; The Compromise of 1850; The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act
• The Mason-Dixon Line; Maps before and after the U.S. Civil War
• The rule of hypodescent
• Misegenation Laws; Loving v. Virginia
• The Dred Scott Decision; Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education
• The Indian Removal Act
• Takao Ozawa v. United States.
• United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind
• The Chinese Exclusion Act
• The Treaty of Guadlupe-Hildalgo
