This document discusses the increasing racial diversity in America and examines what race means. It notes that as the country becomes more multiracial, tolerance seems to be growing. The document explores the history of race in America from the treatment of Native Americans to laws banning interracial marriage. It highlights how the 2000 census allowed people to identify with multiple races, showing that mixed-race individuals now make up around 2.4% of the population. The future projections suggest multiracial individuals will soon be the majority. Overall, the increasing diversity reflects the country's movement toward acceptance rather than just tolerance of different races and backgrounds.

1. As our country becomes more multiracial, are we becoming more tolerant and accepting? Multiracial America

2. What is Race?–noun

3. 1. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity.

4. 2. a population so related.

5. 3. Anthropology . a. any of the traditional divisions of humankind, the commonest being the Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro, characterized by supposedly distinctive and universal physical characteristics: no longer in technical use.

6. b. an arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes, esp. formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.

7. c. a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans.

8. 4. a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock: the Slavic race.

9. 5. any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etcHistory The people of America hail from all over the world and all walks of life. No one “owns” America, we are all immigrants.Our Countryis Heterogeneous.

10. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

11. HistoryWhat is race?

12. Pilgrims & Native AmericansThe true Native Americans were persecuted and thought of to be “racially inferior”.

13. Revolutionary War:Fought to gain America’s freedom and Independence.The freedom and rights of all non whites was Achieved.

14. Civil War:“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature.”Fought to Free the Slaves in America

15. Early Immigration:

16. WARS!!!

17. WWI

18. WWII

19. Vietnam

20. Korean War

21. Desert Storm

22. September 11, 2001

23. RaceRace does not exist in nature.Race is “social concept”, normally used in order to discriminate.Race cannot even be definitively determined biologically. "People who have lived in the same geographic region for many generations may have some alleles in common, but no allele will be found in all members of one population and in no members of any other.“ (Human Genome Project)The primary indicator of race has primarily been skin color. “Whiteness gives us status.”Certain physical traits have been recognized to determine race.

24. Reasons for DiversityImmigration patternsInterracial marriages increasingUS military presence in AsiaMost importantly Loving vs Virginia

25. Loving vs VirginiaMildred Jeter and Richard Loving were married in the District of Columbia.They moved to Virginia and were charged for violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage.The judge sentenced them to one year or suspended sentence if they left the state. He said, “ Almighty God created the races, white black, yellow , malay and red and he placed them on separate continents…the fact that He separated the races means He did not intend for them to mix.”Supreme Court overturned the decision in 1967

26. Thurgood MarshallIn 1967 Thurgood Marshall was only months away from appointment to the Supreme court when he suffered an indignity which today seems outrageous. He and his wife could not live in Virginia because he was black and she was Asian.The supreme court struck down the anti-interracial laws in Virginia and 18 other states.In 1967 these laws were not leftover scraps from an extinct era. A Gallop poll done in 1965 showed that 72 percent of Southern whites and 42 percent of Northern whites wanted to ban interracial marriages.

27. CensusThe 2000 census over 6.8 million Americans marked an identification with two or more races.The 2000 census was the first census to allow respondents to choose more than one race.

28. 2.4 percent of the United States is Multi RacialThat means 6.8 Million people reported being of mixed decent, even though it is believed to be more.Most people record whatever the race they feel they “identify” with.Hawaii has the largest multiracial population. – 24.1 percent of its population.Alaska is second with 5.4 percent.The five least multiracial states are Mississippi, West Virginia, Maine, Alabama, and South Carolina. Every State has a Multi Racial population.

29. APOLO ANTON OHNOCaucasian AmericanJapaneseOlympic Gold medalist; Skater

30. FAITH EVANSMother: African-AmericanFather: Italian-AmericanSinger

31. PHYLICIA RASHADActress, ModelMother: African-AmericanFather: Cherokee Indian

32. LENNY KRAVITZMother: African-American, West IndianFather: Russian-Jewish descent

33. PAULA ABDULMother: French-Canadian, JewishFather: Syrian, Raised in BrazilSinger, Actress, Tv show Host

34. Tiger WoodsMixed African American, Chinese, and Native American ancestry.Famous Golfer

35. “THE ROCK”Dwane JohnsonSamoan, Polynesian, African AmericanProfessional Wrestler, Actor

36. Cameron DiazMother: English, German, CherokeeFather: CubanActress

37. Alicia KeysMother: Scottish, Irish, ItallianFather: African AmericanSinger, Actress

38. Mariah CareyMother: Irish AmericanFather: Afro-Venezuelan and African AmericanSinger, Actress, Tv show Host

39. VIN DIESELFather: African AmericanMother: Italian Producer, Writer, Actor, Director

40. Barak ObamaMother: English, German, IrishFather: AfricanPresident of United States

41. Hypodescent – or the one drop ruleIn the past Americans uncomfortable with the idea that you can be more than one thing.One drop rule was deeply ingrained in our society.Obama has led to some frank discussions about race (see below)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehhxGC0cd4Ehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtWgl1qF3Y0