Inequality in Ethnic and Racial Term Paper

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The paradox of a U.S. national identity involves multiple contradictions, such as citizenship rights promised to U.S. citizens in contrast with differential group discrimination; of external and internal forms of racism with and through one another accepting and excluding certain categories of citizens; of civic and ethnic nationalisms that respond to the established but unstable two-faced U.S. national identity; the combined change and continuity that has allowed American society to constantly and repeatedly transform while retaining a deeply entrenched racial hierarchy; and a deeply gendered or masculine American family ideal that constructs and hides these contradictions, at the same time (Collins 2001).

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Addressing these inconsistencies, inequalities and contradictions requires listening to those with different interpretations of how it is to be treated "like one of the U.S. national family" but actually excluded from that U.S. national family altogether (Collins 2001). It will mean finding a way to reconfigure that long-standing relationships among race, ethnicity and that idealized U.S. national identity as well as working to reclaim the language of family in the process (Collins)......

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