Diversity and Discrimination in American Society Chapter 21 Section 1 Diversity and Discrimination in American Society

Heterogeneous Society Hetero- other or different Genos- race, family, or kind United States is a heterogeneous society We are becoming more heterogeneous every year Immigrants has made populations grow

Race Based Discrimination African Americans 2nd largest minority group in the United States Over 40 Million Been victims of consistent and deliberate unjust treatment for a longer time than any other group in the United States Over 200 years of slavery 13th Amendment ended slavery Did not end violence and racial discrimination Most gains nation has made in Constitution’s guarantees of equality came from efforts made by African Americans Civil Rights movement

Native Americans Over 1 million Native Americans living in the United States in the mid 17th century 1900 less than 250,000 Native Americans living in the United States Disease decimated Native Americans. Military campaigns and Westward expansion 2.8 million Native Americans live on reservations Public land set aside by the government

Native Americans Victims of overwhelming discrimination Oovery, joblessness, and alcoholism plague many reservations Life expectancy of Native Americans living on reservations is 10 years less than the national average Infant mortality rate is 3x more than white Americans

Hispanic Americans Largest minority group Over 42 million people Divided into 4 main groups Mexican Americans 24 million people Largest population lives in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas

Hispanic Americans Puerto Ricans Cuban Americans 3 Million people Mostly live in New York, New Jersey, and other parts of the Northeast Cuban Americans 1 million people Mostly people who fled the Castro dictatorship in Cuba, and their descendants. Most live in Miami and South Florida Central and South Americans Many came as refugees

Central and South Americans Refugee is someone who seeks protection from war, persecution, or some other danger More than 3 million people

Asian Americans Chinese laborers first Asians to come to the United Brought here in the 1850s to 1860s as contract laborers to work in mines and build railroads Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Only a very small number of Chinese, Japanese, and other Asians were permitted to enter the US for 80 years

Asian Americans WWII Interment camp 120,000 people 2/3 native born Forcibly removed and put into “war relocation camps” Changes in immigration policy in 1965 8 million Asian immigrants have come to this country Asian Population 14 million Fastest growing minority group

Women Majority of population in the US Equal Pay Act of 1963 51% Less than 20% of nation’s doctors, lawyers, and college professors are women Equal Pay Act of 1963 Requires employers to pay men and women the same wages if they perform the same jobs in the same establishment Civil Rights Act of 1964 Prohibits job discrimination based on sex

Women Women learn less than 80 cents for every dollar earned by working men Male work force better educated, and more job experience “Mommy track” Women put their careers on hold for child care responsibilities 98% of all secretaries 96% of all child-care workers 93% of all registered nurses 90% of all hair dressers