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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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