Academic Writing & Philosophical back ground

(Very easy task) lass than one hour of work A. Short answers. Two-three sentences each questions. • Who was allowed to become a naturalized citizen before 1954 and who wasn’t? • What rights and privileges do citizens have that non-citizens don't have? • What were the consequences for those denied citizenship? • How did European “ethnics” become white? What changes made this possible? • How did federal housing policies institutionalize segregation and wealth disparities? • Why do property values go down when a neighborhood changes from white to nonwhite? Who plays a role in this? • What happens to measures of racial disparities in places like education and welfare rates when groups of similar income AND wealth are compared? B. Essay questions. 1-2 double-spaced pages for each question 1- Compare the Myth of the Metals in the Kallipolis to racial sense in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Why were both necessary? In what ways were they similar, and in what ways were they different? 2- What was Hoffman’s “Extinction Hypothesis”? What evidence did he think supported his hypothesis, and what did he neglect to consider? How did American racial ideology change following Jesse Owens’s Olympic victories in 1936 – and why did those gold medals not lead to racial equality in the U.S.?