3 Ethnic Minorities in America.pptVIP

Ethnic Minorities少数民族 in America WASP: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant新教徒 Gold Rush: coolie苦力 2005 US Population by Race/Ethnicity White, Non-Hispanic: 198,366,435 White Hispanic: 39,488,509 Non-White Hispanic: 2,593,364 Black or African American: 36,324,580 American Indian or Alaska Native: 2,232,91 Asian: 12,420,498 Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander: 405,011 Two or more races: 4,579,009 African Americans 12.9% of the US population. Early 1600s, indentured servants Slave labor, slave trade, late 1600s. South, the cotton Kingdom.1860, 4milion slaves. Black code The Civil War freed the black. Industrialization,WW1, WW2, blacks migrated to urban areas. Racism 1950s, legal struggle for desegregation废止种族主义 Civil Right Movement Civil rights 1955, Montgomery bus boycott联合抵制 1963, March on Washington Marin Luther King,Jr., Non-violent, direct protest action. Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Right Act of 1965. Malcolm X. Violence for violence, late 1960s. 1969, Supreme Court ordered desegregation of all public schools. 1983, Martin Luther King day 2008, Barack Obama. Latinos/Hispanics 44.3 million, 2006, 15% of US population, Largest minority group. American residents from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba Columbia, Ecuador, and Dominican. Mexicans Live in southwestern states, Texas, California, New Mexico, and Colorado, some live in large mid-western cities as Chicago. Mexican laborers from 1900s Mexicans represent 60% of Latino population. 26% of population in California, 31% in Texas and Colorado 45% in New Mexico. Puerto Ricans: in northern big cities as New York. 3.5 million Cubans: Miami, first wave:1959-1960s Political refugees, elite; second wave in 1980, young adult males. Asian Americans Thanks to 1965 immigration law, 13.1million in 2006, 4.43% of the US population. Chinese Contract laborers: work cheaply and lived frugally. Gold rush 1849 west coast The Chinese Exclusion Act 排华法案of 1882. Non-white, non-Christian, incapable of being ass