1. Looking Toward the Future

2. “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line-the relation of the darker to the lighter races.” - W.E.B. De Bois

3. The Immigration Debate
“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.” - Franklin Roosevelt

4. The Immigration Debate
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” - Emma Lazarus, 1883

9. The Immigration Debate
More than 1 million immigrants have come to the United States in the past 20 years.
Today, more than 34 million immigrants live in the United States.

11. Affirmative Action Initiated by President Kennedy in 1961
Goals based on race and gender are used in hiring, promotion, and college admission.
Controversy
Some say it’s a way to level the playing field
Some say putting race ahead of ability is reverse discrimination

12. Affirmative Action Legal Challenges
In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 209, which banned preferences to minorities and women in hiring practices, promotions, and college admissions.
In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that college universities can give minorities an edge in admissions, but there must be a meaningful review of individual applicants.
University of Michigan Case
President Obama on Affirmative Action

13. Toward a Multicultural Society
True Multicultural Society
Minority groups will participate successfully in the nation’s social institutions while maintaining cultural integrity