We have spent less time on this chapter directly since much of the material here is either better addressed under other topics or is in the current news and somewhat familiar to the class. Below I have indicated the main areas to emphasize as you study this chapter. Read through it carefully, and be especially aware of the process that caused the migration of African-Americans from the American South to the North and West.
Race is a politically charged term.
Review this section with an eye as to how political groups use this concept to discriminate. The rest of this section you can ignore. Although Rubenstein is making a valiant effort to describe the concept of nationality versus ethnicity current events around the world today have disproven many of our old assumptions. Simply I would argue that we still don't fully understand the difference between the two. Map 7-13 is especially informative.