Racial and my Community 1

Race and My Community

Angela Regan

Axia College

Eth 125

Race and My Community 2

I am an African American who lives in a community that is dominated by Hispanics. I have lived in the Coachella Valley for a while. I believe racial issues are an important part of any city in America today. America is a racially diverse country but still seems to have many problems such as racial equality, race relations and encouraging diversity.
Firstly to understand how race is socially and spatially constructed we must first understand what race means. Before I started this class I thought race and ethnicity was the same thing, then as I was reading in Chapter 1, I realized it was totally different. I have learned that race is described as a group that is socially set apart because of obvious physical differences. Ethnicity is described as a group set apart from others because of its national origin or distinctive cultural patterns.
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