Where are Ethnicities
Distributed?
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WHAT ARE YOU?
What is your race?
What is your Ethnicity?
• Is a group of people who
share a biological ancestor.
• European
• African
• Asian
• Is an identity with a group
of people who share the
cultural traditions of a
particular homeland or
hearth.
• What is your Nationality?
• Is the nation-state in which
you have citizenship.
How would you rank Race, Ethnicity, and
Nationality in terms of most to least-important?
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Within the US/ Why?
Ethnicity
Race
Nationality
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Outside the US/ Why?
Nationality
Ethnicity
Race
Race Demographics Survey
WESTON?
• White
• Black
• Asian
WESTON
• White 86%
• Black 4.5%
• Asian 4.5%
• Other/Multi 5%
Ethnicity of Weston
WESTON
• White
• Black
• Asian
• Hispanic (all races)
WESTON
• White 45%
• Black 4.5%
• Asian 4.5%
• Hispanic 45%
• Other/ Multi 1%
Objectives
• Distribution of Ethnicities in the United States
• Differentiating Ethnicity and Race
Distribution of Ethnicities in the
United States
• More ethnic babies
than white babies being
born in the US today.
• White’s will be the
minority by 2043
• In 1960 whites were
80%. In 2060 they will
be 37%.
Hispanics 15% (SW, ¼ CA, 1/5 TX, 1/6
FL/NY, 2/3 = Mexican)
African American 13% (SE, ¼ in AL, GA,
LA, ML, SC MS) 9 states less than 1%)
Asian Americans 4% (West, 40% HI, ½
CA) ¼ Chinese 1/5 Indian/Filipino
American Indian 1% (SW & Plains)
Concentration of Ethnicities in Cities
• 90% Hispanics/ African
Americans live in urban
cities (i.e. Detroit
Chicago, NYC/Los
Angeles/San Antonio)
• Europeans immigrants
migrated out of original
ethnic neighborhoods.
Why this is not true for
African & Hispanics?
African American Migration Patterns
• 18th century: forced migration
from Africa (Triangular Trade)
• 10 million + Africans shipped to
the Americas (1/4 died along
Middle Passage)
• 40% went to Brazil, 40% went to
the Caribbean, 15% to Spanish
colonies, 5% to North America
• Effects on Africa = separating
families, destroying villages,
cultural genocide
• Effects on America = Civil War
between Proslavery South and
Antislavery North and the fate of
new states joining the Union
• 1865: 13th Amendment outlawed
Slavery
• Post-slavery: sharecropper/
serfdom economy
Immigration North
• Early 20th century: two waves
(WWI/ WWII) South to
northern cities.
• Industrial jobs pulled
sharecroppers north.
• East Coast route: Atlantic
Southern states went to
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York
• East Central: Alabama, E
Tennessee to Detroit, Cleveland
• West Central: Mississippi and
W. Tennessee to St. Louis/
Chicago
• Southwest: Texas to California
Expansion of the Ghetto
• Concentrated in
Ghettos (public
housing) 40,000 per
sq kilometer
compared to 2,000
suburb.
• Expanded ghettos in
the 1950’s and
1960’s.
Differentiating Ethnicity and Race
• Race are transmitted genetically
(Asian, African, Caucasian)
Hispanic is ethnicity based on
common culture)
• Asian in America is both race and
ethnicity bc of ties to Asia.
• African- American: cultural ties/
Black: skin color) are different
groups but ethnically grouped
together because of history.
• Hispanic/Latino is not a race can
be white, black, other
• Race is unpopular in labels
because of the prejudged
classification of a species that is
highly variable physically. For
example:
What Are You?
What Race is this Guy in?
How do Demographic data
collected in America?
• Census: every ten years
US takes a survey of the
race/ethnicity of its
citizens.
• 14 races/ethnicities
• 2000 census: persons
can select more than
one race. What % of
Americans do you think
identify multiracial?
Racism
• Legacy of Racism: belief
that race is the primary
determination of
inherent superiority
• Can those who have
been targets of Racism
be Racists? (Reverse
Racism)
Separate but Equal
Doctrine
• US strongly discouraged
racial interaction
• Plessy v Ferguson 1896
• “Jim Crow” laws until 1964.
• Desegregation resulted
“White Flight” (Detroit 1950:
White pop 1.7 million/ Black
pop 300,000. 2000: Black
pop 850,000/ White pop
200,000)
• Blockbusting: practice at
underselling white homes/
upselling to black families
desperate to move out of the
ghetto.
Division by Race in South Africa
• Dutch (Boers) vs British
• Late 20th century: SA adopted
apartheid (physical separation of
races)
• SA classified under black, white,
colored, or Asian
• Determined where you could live,
attend school, work, shop, and
own land.
• Ten black “homelands” were
created
• 1991 Apartheid was repealed/
Mandela became first
democratically elected president.
• Today: white SA earn 10X more
than black SA