Provide a three (3) page critical analysis to include each of the below discussion prompts.

· Apply the learning outcomes in Marger (2015) Chapters 1 – 4 and the available resources in each of the learning modules to examine the intersections of race stratification and class stratification as themes of social division in multiethnic American societies. In your critical assessment, does America have a race or class problem in the expectation of Americanization, who is American, and who decides? 

· Paulo Freire (1970) Chapter 2 discusses a concept of the Banking approach which oppressors sees the oppressed as receptacles to deposit reality-detached realism information to sustain domination and control – thus denying the oppressed humanism. How does an analysis on the writings of Freire on pages 74 – 79 assist understanding on the 2016 election results?

· Provide a comparative assessment on the running themes found in Paulo Freire, Chapter 2 and Against School: How public education cripples our kids and why? to explain how race and/or class allows people, and groups to self-segregate. How is this phenomenon evidenced at Purdue?

· Paulo Freire, Chapter 2 states,

“The truth is, however, that the oppressed are not “marginal,” are not people living outside society. They have always been “inside” – inside the structures that made them “beings for others”. The solution is not to “integrate” them into the structure of oppression, but to transform the structure so they can become “beings for themselves.”

Consider Marger’s Chapter 4 discussion on Assimilation and Pluralism. Which of these specific integration  models (assimilation or pluralism) do you find most plausible given the concentration on race,  immigration, and prejudice in today’s social and political arenas. Why, or why not?

· What are your concluding thoughts on multi-dimensional social layers of race and class?