Unit Three: Cultural Identities
Assignment
Essay Questions
All questions must be answered in complete sentences, essay format. You must type both question and answer. If you use your textbook as a reference, simply provide the page number; however, if you use another reference you must provide that reference in APA format. Questions answered without a page number or reference will be penalized 5 points.
Question 1: Explain Colonialism and its effect on the Native Americans, genocide, and racial inequality in the United States.
Question 2: How do the “model minority” and racism play into the culturally grounded social work idea; give an example?
Question 3: Why is sexism towards women so important to study in the social work field?
Question 4: How does the transgendered community differ from the lesbian-bisexual-gay (LBG) community and what are their similarities?
Question 5: What are the effects of the categorization of heterosexual, homosexual, and bisexual in the social work field and in the general population?
Question 6: What are the cultural ideas of masculinity?
Question 7: Provide a summary (include terms) for each of the videos. Summaries must be at least one paragraph long.