Study Guide –Desmond and Emirbayer, Chapter 2 1. When did the term “race” obtain its modern meaning? 2. Which two European countries, according to the authors, had more influence than others in creating the system of racial classification we know today? 3. During the fourteenth century, which country’s citizens were regarded as nothing short of “savages” to England? 4. What form of identity could we see in its beginning stages within fifteenth century Spain? 5. Which term refers to a historical era marked by the rise of nationalism, development of capitalism, global expansion, and disenchantment of the world and rapid growth of scientific knowledge? 6. What term refers to when a foreign power invades a territory and establishes en...
White persons, percent, 2008 (a) 
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