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Race and Ethnicity
Native Americans
Hispanics
Asians
Native Americans--history
• Conquest and removal 1492-1879- 1838 Trail of tears
- 1860s creation of the reservation system
History, contd
• Assimilation 1880s-1930s- Tribes “de-recognized”
- Residential boarding schools
Native Americans today--political conditions
- Since 1920s are U.S. citizens, pay federal taxes
- since 70’s tribes have greater autonomy: have their own govts, laws and police
- but must obey US court interpretations of treaties and laws which apply to them
Native Americans Today--social conditions
• Today about 1 percent--depending
• less than 50% living on reservations
• highest rates of alcoholism, unemployment, low life expectancies, infant mortality
• Casino boom beginning in 80s - Federal law gives tribes right to offer gambling, negotiated
with the state
- mostly benefiting a few small tribes near urban areas
Hispanics
• Largest American “minority” at over 12%• politically under-represented- some not citizens, young population, lower voting rates
- but growing in political strength
· “socially conservative, economically liberal”- a big prize for the two major parties
• Predominantly Democrat, but not Cubans and Central Americans in Miami, Mexicans in Texas, etc.
Asians/Pacific Islanders• 4% nationally, but fastest growing ethnic “group”• Economically various: Indian-Americans on
average wealthier than Caucasians, Laotians, Hmong, Khmer poorer.
• Politically: - Like Hispanics, under-represented, but voter rates growing
- Asians in CA mostly Dem, but often more conservative than other minorities/neighboring whites
- differences between nationalities/ethnicities
Mixed race
• 2000 Census the first to allow choosing multiple racial categories
• by 3rd generation, most Asians and Latinos marry outside ethnicity
Whites become a minority