Q Discussion Post minimum requirements: • 400-500 words of substantive content • Use two quotes from the readings or outside sources (citations needed) • Due: March 18 at 11:59 PM Peer Responses minimum requirements: • Post at least two responses, totaling about 400 words; • Due: March 20 at 11:59 PM NOTE: You will need to post your answer to one of the prompts below before seeing the posts of your classmates. This is to ensure that you will not be swayed by the opinions or responses of others in the class. ________________________________________ PLEASE NOTE: Respond to a peer's post that is different from the topic of your initial post. So for example, if your initial post answers Prompt #1, you should respond to a peer's post that answers a different prompt number (e.g. #2-#5). Select one discussion prompt from the following: 1. Explain what a plantation system is and why this system of production is important for understanding the origins of slavery in colonial America. 2. What is ethnocentrism? Describe a time in which you experienced ethnocentrism and/or inflicted ethnocentrism on another person. 3. What is Affirmative Action? What are your thoughts on Affirmative Action at Universities? 4. What is modern institutional discrimination? How does it differ from traditional institutional discrimination? Explain the role of affirmative action in combating each. 5. Define past-in-present institutional discrimination. Have you ever experienced past-in-present institutional discrimination? If so, please explain. If not, please provide an example of a time in which someone might experience this form of discrimination.