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SOC 119
Race and Ethnic Relations

THIRD EXAM

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The readings and videos for this Third Exam will require about 4.5 hours of your time.

There will be 18 questions.


VIDEOS:

1. “Young ballet dancers reaching for the sky in Peru” (6 min)

2. “The Tsimane Amazon tribe where people age better” (15 min)

3. “Another White House visit” (25 min)

4. "Land without children: This Colombian municipality could disappear due to lack of births." (11 min)


READINGS:

1. “Women Toiling in India’s Insufferable Heat” (15 min)

2. “AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants” (5 min)

3. “France-based Begum TV channel offers a lifeline to Afghan women” (5 min)

4. “As a Town Grows More Diverse, a Mayor Says There’s Room for Everyone” (10 min)

5. “A White author calculated just how much racism has benefited her” (10 min)

6. “Their Son’s Death Was Devastating. Then Politics Made it Worse” (20 min)

7. ”Two Men. One Identity. They Both Paid the Price” (20 min)

8. “Colleges See Major Racial Shifts in Student Enrollment” (6 min)

9. “Meet the Crew That Makes Dancing Lions for the Lunar New Year” (7 min)

10. “Visible from space: why Spain has the world’s biggest concentration of greenhouses” (10 min)

11. “Colombia and Venezuela Have a Beef” (10 min)

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