Some Social Critics Maintain That the U

Multiple Choice

Some social critics maintain that the U.S. government classifies people of Middle Eastern and Arab ancestry as "white" because

A) most Middle Easterners self-classify themselves as white.
B) the Middle East holds important symbolic values that whites with power to classify hoped to associate with their "race."
C) this ancestry group doesn't fit clearly into the "black" category.
D) the dominant population classifies Middle Easterners as "white."