Racial and Ethnic Politics
- Created by: Sam Worrell
- Created on: 11-12-13 10:33
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- Racial and Ethnic Politics
- Social and Economic Inequalities
- Increase in number of Blacks, Asians and Hispanics
- Black schoolchildren have lower reading age on average
- But Asians tend to have a higher level ( counter-argument)
- White Americans have more wealth, on average per house
- More Black Americans arrested (cocaine percentage)
- In many cases leads to exclusion in voting, Minority votes not represented
- Political Representation
- Barack Obama
- Black vote mostly solidly Democrat
- First African American head of federal executive department: Robert Weaver 1966
- US supreme court: Thurgood Marshall, 1967
- Affirmative Action
- Reverse discrimination?
- 1961, Equal Employment Opportunity Council starts affim
- Pros
- Diversity, rights previous wrongs, it works: university graduation percentages
- Cons
- Disadvantages white, people get into universities they're not suited for, doesn't contribute to a colour-blind society
- Immigration
- Democrats support immigrant rights, even when illegal
- Encourage illegal immigrants to come forward, become citizen and contribute; taxes
- Republicans support deportation
- But, Democrats have increased border patrols and fences
- Democrats turn a blind eye to illegal immigrant towns; partisan issue
- Partisanship and conservativism vs liberalism
- Very divided
- Democrats tend to be liberal, Republicans opposite
- Recent examples
- SB 10.70, ID cards
- Making government policies and letters only in English, exclusion
- Relatively recent anti- affirmative action cases, Bakke etc.
- Texas ten percent
- Social and Economic Inequalities
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