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OBJ: TO DETERMINE PATTERNS OF ETHNIC DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES BY IDENTIFYING HISTORICAL & CURRENT TRENDS OF MIGRATION ETHNIC MIGRATION WITHIN THE UNITED STATES • • WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF FORCED MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES? VOLUNTARY? • • AFRICAN AMERICANS 1619 ASIAN & HISPANICS LATE 20TH & EARLY 21ST CENTURIES • • AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVERY MID 18TH C. TRADE: MOLASSES & RUM TO EURO. CLOTH TO AFRICA & SLAVES TO NORTH AMERICA • WHERE DID MOST AFRICAN AMERICANS CLUSTER AS A RESULT OF SLAVERY? SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES • INTERNAL MIGRATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE U.S. • • • • • • • • • • • • • INTERREGIONAL? WHEN & WHERE TO? NORTHERN CITIES POST CIVIL WAR-KS, MI, IL MOST DRAMATIC CHANGE IN GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF AA IN THE U.S. WAS MOVEMENT TO N. CITIES PUSH FACTORS? DRED SCOT V SANFORD 1854 JIM CROW LAWS POST 1877 PLESSY V. FERGUSON 1896: SEPARATE BUT = POST WWI & WWII – MORE MOVED NORTH & SOME FURTHER NORTH TO NY, PHILLY, BOSTON PUSH FACTORS? JIM CROW, JOBS MID 20TH CENTURY-INTRAREGIONAL WHITE FLIGHT & BLOCKBUSTING SELL HOUSES CHEAP & RE-SELL HIGH IN ORDER TO CHANGE NEIBORHOOD’S ETHNICITY 1954 BROWN V BD. OF ED – NULLIFIES PLESSY HISPANIC & ASIAN MIGRATION IN THE U.S. • • • • • • • NYC 25%+ HISPANIC BUT ALL HISPANICS IN NY 1/16TH OF TOTAL POP CA & TX LARGEST HISPANIC POPS. 1/4 OF CALIFORNIA POP. HISPANIC CLUSTERED IN LA; ABOUT 1/2 OF ALL U.S. HISPANICS LIVE IN CA REGIONALLY CLUSTERED IN SW ASIANS CLUSTERED IN WEST; 40% HAWAIIAN POPULATION 1/2 ASIAN-AMERICAN POPULATION LIVE IN CA = 12% OF TOTAL POP LATINO/HISPANICS LARGEST ETHNIC MINORITY IN U.S. RACE IN SOUTH AFRICA • • • • • • • • APARTHEID-PYSICAL SEPARATION OF DIFFERENT RACES INTO GEO. AREAS 1948 NATIONAL PARTY & LEGISLATION VOTE 1991 TO REPEAL FRAMEWORK 1994 ELECTION OF MANDELA & FULL REPEAL OF ALL APARTHEID LAWS 4 RACES PRIOR TO 1994; BLACK, WHITE, ASIAN & MIXED W/ DIFFERENT LEGAL STATUS DUTCH 1652 – AFRIKAANS/BOER BRITISH 1795-1948 MANDELA FIRST BLACK ELECTED IN SOUTH AFRICA AS PRESIDENT & 1ST IN ALL OF SOUTHERN AFRICA