Write ONE essay (1000 words long) addressing and connecting the two prompts listed below:

• Based on a deep understanding of the assigned class reading you have read to date,

provide a critically informed comparative analysis of color-blindness and

multiculturalism, the two dominant conceptual frameworks informing our

understanding of cultural diversity in the United States. Explore their assumptions.

Identify the differences between the two, and the similarities that they share.

• What is polyculturalism? How does polyculturalism overcome the limitations inherent in

color-blindness and multiculturalism? What are the fundamental assumptions of

polyculturalism. Explore and explain the radicalism of polyculturalism.