Many MINORITY gROUPS
Minorities include African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Pacific Islanders, and American Indians, and Eskimos. The terms black and African American are used opposites in this report, as are the terms Hispanic and Latino. Except where indicated, the term Asian refers to Asians and Pacific Islanders, and to American Indians,and Eskimos. Alaska Native refers to Aleuts and Eskimos. The term white refers to non-Hispanic whites except where otherwise specified. Likewise, the terms African American, Asian, and American Indian exclude Hispanics unless stated otherwise.
Growing numbers of Central and South Americans have joined the US Latino community during now days, including Colombians. Dominicans have also come in high numbers, as have many Salvadorans and Guatemalans seeking from trouble. The latter groups have not been accepted as bona fide refugees because of US support for Central American military action. These people must work and live as undocumented residents. Most are poor and without political right, who attempt to speak out or otherwise aid the opposition in their home countries have themselves under police investigation.
Growing numbers of Central and South Americans have joined the US Latino community during now days, including Colombians. Dominicans have also come in high numbers, as have many Salvadorans and Guatemalans seeking from trouble. The latter groups have not been accepted as bona fide refugees because of US support for Central American military action. These people must work and live as undocumented residents. Most are poor and without political right, who attempt to speak out or otherwise aid the opposition in their home countries have themselves under police investigation.
african amercians
Once called Negroes and now called ‘black' Americans or ‘people of color', their main descendants from slaves, brought from Africa between the seventeenth centuries, by the British, Spanish, and also Amercains.
Their history of forced immigration to the United States is among US minorities and, compared to slaves elsewhere, African Americans were negatively de-cultured. Their mistreatment was ‘natural'. Today, they are an important minority in a nation with a singular degree of world influence. Much of the USA's victories can be credited to African Americans, but white-black conflict remains a thing.
Besides the traditional African American community, the United States has been home in recent years to an increasing number of other black immigrants. Some come from African nations like Somalia; others, seeking economic freedom, come from Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Guyana and other Caribbean nations.
Indigenous people
Indigenous peoples of Alaska include at least 20 language groups (some now spoken only by a handful of elders) and several hundred villages and tribal groups. Inuit are the largest group, numbering is greater decreasing. Until 30 or so years ago, the term ‘Eskimo' was regularly used to describe this group, but today, the more common usage in Canada and Greenland is Inuit, although in Alaska, Eskimo is still actively.
Other indigenous peoples in North America, with many of the same effects. Suffer from, poverty (Inuit and Natives earn on average less than half of white Alaskans' income per cent), educational failure, health problems, teenage suicide, poverty, language loss, alcoholism and violence. However, because of Alaska's relative isolation and long territorial status, the principle of Native power is less well-entrenched there. The state government maintains that, historically, indigenous Alaskans have always been treated as individuals, not peoples. No treaties and only a few reservation exist.
Hispianics
During the sixteenth century, many mestizo and some other Mexicans settled to farm and ranch in the mountain slopes and desert valleys of Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona. Eventually much of the border was granted to settlers by royal decree, a decision confirmed by the Mexican government after its independence from Spain in 1821. The USA annexed Texas in 1848. However the gold rush in California hit, it brought masses of Anglo settlers. Conflict and discrimination became a problem. In several states, after a peaceful conflict, Spanish education and voting rights were cut off and were not restored until well into the twentieth century. The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo guaranteed the safety of Mexican land grants, but 80 per cent of grant lands were lost to force, debt or legal manipulation.
In the early 1960s, unsuccessful efforts were made to reclaim the lands guaranteed in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Farm Workers union, led by Cesar Chávez, had effective campaigns against low wages, abuse of Mexican workers. In the fruit and vegetable farms of California. Later in the 1960s, the Chicano movement was born. Chicano, once a pejorative for ‘Mexicano', was used by high school and college students in the pockets of California as a symbol of against discrimination. The Chicano youth movement - including the militant Brown Berets. Began with a strike for improved living conditions, great education and cultural pride. The movement led up to a cultural activity and new national organizations.The Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project helped to increase Latino participation in elections.
Their history of forced immigration to the United States is among US minorities and, compared to slaves elsewhere, African Americans were negatively de-cultured. Their mistreatment was ‘natural'. Today, they are an important minority in a nation with a singular degree of world influence. Much of the USA's victories can be credited to African Americans, but white-black conflict remains a thing.
Besides the traditional African American community, the United States has been home in recent years to an increasing number of other black immigrants. Some come from African nations like Somalia; others, seeking economic freedom, come from Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Guyana and other Caribbean nations.
Indigenous people
Indigenous peoples of Alaska include at least 20 language groups (some now spoken only by a handful of elders) and several hundred villages and tribal groups. Inuit are the largest group, numbering is greater decreasing. Until 30 or so years ago, the term ‘Eskimo' was regularly used to describe this group, but today, the more common usage in Canada and Greenland is Inuit, although in Alaska, Eskimo is still actively.
Other indigenous peoples in North America, with many of the same effects. Suffer from, poverty (Inuit and Natives earn on average less than half of white Alaskans' income per cent), educational failure, health problems, teenage suicide, poverty, language loss, alcoholism and violence. However, because of Alaska's relative isolation and long territorial status, the principle of Native power is less well-entrenched there. The state government maintains that, historically, indigenous Alaskans have always been treated as individuals, not peoples. No treaties and only a few reservation exist.
Hispianics
During the sixteenth century, many mestizo and some other Mexicans settled to farm and ranch in the mountain slopes and desert valleys of Texas, California, New Mexico and Arizona. Eventually much of the border was granted to settlers by royal decree, a decision confirmed by the Mexican government after its independence from Spain in 1821. The USA annexed Texas in 1848. However the gold rush in California hit, it brought masses of Anglo settlers. Conflict and discrimination became a problem. In several states, after a peaceful conflict, Spanish education and voting rights were cut off and were not restored until well into the twentieth century. The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo guaranteed the safety of Mexican land grants, but 80 per cent of grant lands were lost to force, debt or legal manipulation.
In the early 1960s, unsuccessful efforts were made to reclaim the lands guaranteed in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Farm Workers union, led by Cesar Chávez, had effective campaigns against low wages, abuse of Mexican workers. In the fruit and vegetable farms of California. Later in the 1960s, the Chicano movement was born. Chicano, once a pejorative for ‘Mexicano', was used by high school and college students in the pockets of California as a symbol of against discrimination. The Chicano youth movement - including the militant Brown Berets. Began with a strike for improved living conditions, great education and cultural pride. The movement led up to a cultural activity and new national organizations.The Southwest Voter Registration and Education Project helped to increase Latino participation in elections.