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Minority Group Threats

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Racial minority groups (blacks and Hispanics) as well as the majority group (whites) could either form a coalition or compete depending on the socioeconomic or political objectives that they have, and the location where they reside. A coalition would occur when both groups have similar goals, expectations, and sense of teamwork. A competition would occur when two or more groups are trying to achieve the same goal, but only one can attain success. According to McClain and Karnig, “Socioeconomic indicators included median education, median, income, percent nonpoverty population, and percent employed” (536). It looks like in many circumstances, blacks and whites were afraid of the immigration of Latinos, especially if they were planning to reside …show more content…

talks about three studies that were made regarding immigration and the threats that this brings to the ingroup. Threats that could change the ingroup’s attitudes towards the outgroup. These studies examine four different threats: realistic, symbolic, intergroup anxiety, and negative stereotypes. Basically, realistic threats are things or situations that could potentially cause any harm to the ingroup. An example of a symbolic threat would be like not having the same values and beliefs. According to Stephan et al. based on the first study, “Neither the symbolic threat nor the realistic threat by themselves caused more negative attitudes than the control condition, but then realistic threats and symbolic threats were combined they did lead to more negative attitudes” (5-6). Most racial and ethnic groups do not have the same cultural values and beliefs. A good example that projects a clear image of both realistic and symbolic threats combined would the current immigration issue in the U.S. President Trump has persuaded enough people that undocumented immigrants are a threat for our socioeconomic standing. He has used Mexicans and now Salvadorans as his main examples to create such fear and anger towards the entire Hispanic population. He has used the idea of unemployment and criminal behavior as the realistic threat while the symbolic threat comes in naturally because racial and ethnic groups are indeed culturally

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For example, many people have the mindset of avoiding blacks at all cost. If you were to be walking down the street and there was a black person on one side and a white on the other side, sadly, many people would cross the street to be on the same side as the white person. Another example of how this mindset is relevant today is police brutality with dark skinned people. There are many videos and news reports proving that some police really do treat people of color differently. I think this is and was a huge issue

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In other words, Latinos have been so traumatized by how many of them were being treated by the government that they would rather continue to hide in the shadows,

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A Bumpy Ride on the Even Road: Still Separate and Unequal with Pluralistic and Two-tiered Pluralistic Society in the United States In order to illustrate the U.S. politics, especially in terms of racial and ethnic minority issues, many political models used as analytical tools to understand the political resources and opportunities of U.S. racial and ethnic groups in contemporary U.S. society had been proposed. Among these politically important models, two of the most fundamentally important are Pluralism and Two-tiered Pluralism (DeSipio, 2015: Week 2 Lectures; Shaw et. al., 2015).

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(S., Lauren M. "Racism and Its Affect on Society." Racism and Its Affect on Society. Teen Ink, n.d. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.)When the 9/11 attacks occurred, anyone with an ethnic or religious background that were the same as the terrorists were discriminated against, and harassed.

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Disproportionate minority contact is also refered to the disposition rate number of minority youths that came in contact with the juvenile justice system. However, currently it is used, "to refer to the representation of minorities from arrest through disposition" (Muraskin & Roberts, 2009 P.162). The disproportionate minority contact was amended by congress in 2002, when they wanted to incorporate all the stages of the juvenile justice process. Now, before this the juvenile justice and deliquency prevention Act, would use the term disproportionate minority confinement also known as DMC, "to assess the confinement of minority groups relative to their representation in the population" (Muraskin & Roberts, 2009 P.162). It has been illustrated

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During the immigration act of 1965 the Jewish and Asian-Americans focused on staying with their model minority representation. Many people thought that the African-Americans and Latinos can be a model and follow the lines of the Asian and Jewish Americans. The Asian and Jewish Americans focused on their individual drive and their family, education, occupations, and etc. many people think that the African-Americans and Latinos can easily follow that and become a model minority. What people don 't know is that the struggle that the African-Americans have to go through in order to even be nearly chosen to be a model minority.

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What does assimilation mean for Hispanics? The Term “Hispanic” makes reference to Chicanos, Puerto Ricans or all those people from Latin America but live in The United States. It’s clear that not all Hispanics receive the same treatment. Unfortunately, racial and Ethnic Features play a very interesting roles in the process of assimilation of Latino immigrant in The United States. In fact, for many immigrants assimilation means to become white.

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Smith & Holmes (2003) confirmed research that stated that minorities are the targets of police brutality. Referring back to Figure 1, you can see that among the other ethnicities, African Americans over the age of 25 have been targeted the most starting from 1968 and now the targeting has been spread out to other ethnicities but a majority of the police brutality cases are involving African American males. From looking at Figure 1, one can see that the African American community has been affected the most with police killings since 1968 up unto now. For example, in the case of Michael Brown, an 18-year old African American male who was fatally shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson a Caucasian male. Michael Brown and friend

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The topic on rather or not most Americans are discriminatory towards minorities is an ongoing debate being argued in many recent controversies. For example, the Ahmed Mohamed Controversy. This controversy has been taking place since September 16, 2015. It involves a 14 year old freshmen who attended a Irving Texas high school. This freshmen was arrested and interrogated while being accused of bringing a hoax bomb to school.

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The deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Eric Garner in New York City, and Freddie Gray in Baltimore are just a few examples that initiated violent riots around the country, having been at the hands of white police officers. Of course racial tensions, in these cases, would rise again due to the image of a black man being killed by a white police officer, although these tensions might have had diminished since the Civil Rights era (Cherry 2016). Cherry suggests that the motive behind hate crimes against black is all about white people feeling in control. In other words, the power of domination and exclusion is being white, otherwise they would “cease to exist for want of reason” whether this power is direct or insidious

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The fear of deportation has existed among immigrant communities for years. While they have always been aware of immigration laws and the possibility of deportation, immigrants have been able to live their lives without fear. They have worked, raised their families and contributed to the U.S. economy with little to no fear being deported. That is because immigration laws have rarely threatened or pose as a danger to immigrants in the country.

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In today’s culture I feel that minorities are no longer treated as poorly as they were in the 1920s. In the 20s, by my understanding of the book minorities were discriminated against and disliked by most people. Life was made more difficult for the minority just because people thought they were vicious beasts who would attack any white woman if given the chance. Today people are not as open about their racism if it’s there because they are no longer supported by the government, in fact the government has made it clear that racism is not to be tolerated in this country anymore and for the most part the average person agrees. In modern times discrimination has moved to people who are of sexual minorities rather than racial.

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As the realities of race – who is white and who is not-shift over time and according-to class, language, location, and various other factors, it becomes increasingly clear that people should not be the object of attack. People raced as white are not the problem, the problem is white supremacy, white privilege, and white empire. People of all races contribute to these social, political, and legal ills, and people of all races can unite to destroy

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Or even more strikingly, nearly half of all hate crimes committed in America have to do with race.(FBI, 2016). As we can see, although there is no obviously racism like massacre happens nowadays, the racial discrimination phenomena is like a dirty mud which has split to many tiny pieces hiding in the corner of our

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