Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

While a statewide report, there are many suburbs in Minnesota that have are majority white, and their schools are majority white with advanced courses, which shows that race, ethnicity, and economic class do play a role in enrollment in advanced courses, as students of a higher economic class had the opportunity to take advanced courses. The bit of diversity in my advanced courses, however, was not reflected in the students who actually took the exams. While there are no longer any policies…

Thesis: Racial profiling is a re-occurring issue in American history that started during the Colonial times, and continues up until today. In general, experience is very valuable and can aid in making decisions or judgment calls. Racial Profiling compromises the structure in which America stands. With Constitutional laws that are supposed to protect us as American citizens from any discrimination or mistreatment, Racial Profiling is still being practiced. It violates our human rights, causes…

“Hispanic”, while religious affiliations and grassroots incline to the latter one[ Suzanne Oboler, Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995), 3.]. In the past decades, those terms have come into general use in the United States to refer to all the people whose ancestry is predominantly from one or more Spanish-speaking areas, including most of the countries of South America, the Caribbean…

show their support with future political compromises. Although certain states in the USA have legalized gay marriage, it’s unfair for the other half of millions of LGBT couples who live in states where gay marriage isn’t legal. The partial legalization of gay marriage in only certain states in the USA is a huge problem; it promotes discrimination and violates the human rights of the members of the LBGT community living in states where Gay Marriage is illegal. This partial legalization of gay…

Prenatal Care Barriers in the United States According to Dijk, Anderko, and Stetzer (2010), the United States spends more on healthcare than any other nation in the world, however they only rank 28th in infant mortality among 32 industrialized nations. Improved maternal health and reduced infant mortality can result from a variety of different interventions, and the topic of concern for this discussion is prenatal care. The early use of prenatal care can result in better birth outcomes as well…

In reference to the Census Bureau, in 2010 Brooklyn population was 2,504,700 and in 2014, 2,621,793. The change in population of Brooklyn from 2010 to 2014 is estimated to have enlarged at about 117,093 residents, a 4.7% increase. As the population grows there is an increase in limited living space. Located in Brooklyn, Brownsville is a part of the Brooklyn community district 16. The community health profile as of 2015, in Brownsville alone the total population is 86,377. The black population…

Millennials, also known as generation Y, were born between the mid 1980’s to the 2000’s. This is the largest generation so far, as well as the most diverse in the United States population. According to the Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data, “more than one-in-three American workers today are Millennials (adults ages 18 to 34 in 2015) and this year they surpassed Generation X to become the largest share of the American workforce” (Fry). Millennials have grown up with…

American's had seized the land from those who had settled here first. The Trail of Tears, the Indian Removal Act, and many more incidents had gone underway demoting the place of the Native American's in society. As a result, the Native American ethnicity has become a minority. Many estimate as much as 30% of the Native American population had been shaved down by the diseases brought by the Trail of Tears which forced the Native American's to migrate West to present day Oklahoma yet affected many…

Francisco State University), friends and relatives accessible to the researcher via social media avenues, and business professionals contacted from the researcher’s personal networks. Furthermore, participants were also selected because they meet the following criteria: were at least 18 years of age, identified as being members of the female gender, and were employed in a full-time capacity (averaging 32 hours of work per week). These individuals were recruited from San Francisco State…

They used a sample of “100,000 respondents, under the age of 76, who identified as having a Bachelors degree in any degree field from the 2000 Census” (Hanson 2013: 5). The NSCG over oversample for minority groups, such as women, they weigh the results when they do this. Hanson analyzed data on 91,872 respondents who reported a degree in STEM (Hanson 2013:5). She also analyzed “70,378 respondents…