Read two of the articles provided; write a summary of each article (less than 600 words) describing the FINDINGS, METHODS (dates, location, how many respondents, etc…) and DATA used while discussing the IMPORTANCE of RACE in each of the findings. Findings is the MOST IMPORTANT part of the summary; Discuss what is the main issue or question, then list out all of the possible answers/reasons/explanations for this question (independent variables), then you have your dependent variable and how its measured (what you are trying to explain), which of the independent variables have the largest impact on your dependent variable, which ones aren’t important at all. Don’t just state that some of the independent variables were not as important — describe the pattern uncovered for each.  So for gender, for example, you would say that women are more supportive of gay marriage than men — don’t just say gender wasn’t as important as other variables. In some cases you would say that the independent variable isn’t important at all (i.e. had no effect on the dependent variable), and the author will make that clear in the article.   After describing the influence of each independent variable on the dependent variable, then make sure to summarize again with detail how the most important independent variable influenced the dependent variable.  This basically mimics the argument presented in most of the articles.