3.+Race,+ethnicity,+and+diversity+in+Moby+Dick


 * Focus Questions:**


 * 1) Define //race//, //ethnicity//, and //diversity//?
 * 2) What was the racial and ethnic makeup of the United States in the 1800's?
 * 3) What racial and ethnic movement (in terms of geography) was there during this period and what were the causes?
 * 4) In the United States?
 * 5) Between countries and continents?
 * 6) Describe the relationship between different racial and ethnic groups:
 * 7) In the North
 * 8) In the South
 * 9) Pre-Civil War
 * 10) Post-Civil War
 * 11) Under Romanticism
 * 12) Under Transcendentalism
 * 13) What elements of the countries racial and ethnic makeup are present in //Moby Dick//?
 * 14) How do these elements contribute to the plot and structure of the novel?
 * 15) What historic parallels in regards to race and ethnicity are present in the novel?
 * 16) How do these elements of race and ethnicity help to create the underlying class warfare that the story of //Moby// Dick describes?

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