person of color

Examples of person of color in the following topics:

• Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the U.S.

  • A person of color is a term used primarily in the United States to describe any person who is not white.
  • White are considered those having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa ; Black or African American are considered those having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa ; Native American are considered those having origins in any of the original peoples of North, Central and South America, and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment; Asian are considered those having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent ; Pacific Islanders are those having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands; see also Pacific Islander American.
  • The majority of the more than 300 million people currently living in the United States consists of White Americans, who trace their ancestry to the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
  • Historically, any person with any sub-Saharan African ancestry, even if they were mostly white, were designated and classified as "Black," according to the "one drop rule. " The one-drop rule is a historical colloquial term in the United States for the social classification as black of individuals with any African ancestry; this means any person with "one drop of black blood" was considered black.
  • Discuss the origins and characteristics of each of the races in the United States

• Political Ideology

  • The ideological position a person or party takes may be described in terms of what kinds of social and economic policies they would like to see implemented.
  • Persons in the U.S. generally classify themselves either as adhering to positions along the political spectrum as liberal-progressive, moderate, or conservative, but there are several subgroups of all of these three.
  • Moderates, who may be left or right leaning, incorporate different aspects from liberalism and conservatism into their personal perspective.
  • The darkest colors to lightest colors, respectively, indicate the greatest percentages of people identifying as liberals.
  • (The darkest color represents 28% and above, while the lightest color is under 14%).

• Continuing Challenges in Race Relations in the U.S.

  • Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin into consideration in order to benefit underrepresented groups in areas of employment, education, and business.
  • Nixon opposed busing personally but enforced court orders requiring its use.
  • America's poor is disproportionately made up of people of color, so class-based affirmative action would disproportionately help people of color.
  • This would eliminate the need for race-based affirmative action as well as reducing any disproportionate benefits for middle and upper class people of color.
  • They believe that choosing people based on their social group instead of solely their qualifications has the effect of devaluing their accomplishments; opponents also claim that affirmative action is a form of "reverse discrimination" and may increase racial tension.

• Red States vs. Blue States

  • The association of states with colors to indicate their party voting preferences was not a new phenomenon prior to the 2000 presidential election.
  • In fact, the advent of color television encouraged many television news reporters to depict state voting preferences through color-coded electoral maps.
  • Previously, color schemes differed across networks.
  • The association of blue with Democrats and red with Republicans is now part of the lexicon of American journalism and has informally been used by each party.
  • Another criticism of the red state-blue state paradigm is that it has not been entirely predictive of how states will vote.

• The Civil War Amendments

  • An exception was made for punishment of a crime.
  • The first clause asserted that anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. is a citizen of the U.S. and of the state in which they live.
  • The amendment also defined the formula for determining political representation by apportioning representatives among states based on a count of all residents as whole persons.
  • It banned any person who had engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the U.S. from holding civil or military office.
  • This amendment prohibited governments from denying U.S. citizens the right to vote based on race, color, or past servitude .

• Separate But Equal

  • These laws made far-reaching restrictions, from the banning of mixed card playing, to the banning of black people and other people of color, and people of Chinese or Japanese heritage from certain schools and public places.
  • The phrase "separate but equal" came out of a Louisiana law, and referred to the practice of legislating separate public facilities for white residents and for people of color.
  • In spite of the fact that separate accommodations for people of color were seldom equal this doctrine was maintained until the Brown v.
  • Board of Education Supreme Case decision of 1954.
  • There was not legally sanctioned racial segregation in northern states, as there was in southern states, but black residents and other people of color often faced a de facto segregation that limited their ability to, for example, live in certain neighborhoods or hold certain jobs.

• Forms of Government

  • Forms of government are categorized by the power source and power structure of any given state.
  • A form of government, or form of state governance, refers to the set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized (synonyms include "regime type" and "system of government").
  • Aristocracy refers to the rule by elite citizens; a system of governance in which a person who rules in an aristocracy is an aristocrat.
  • Governments with autocratic attributes are ruled by one person who has all the power over the people in a country.
  • This map shows all the countries of the word, colored according to their type of government.

• Business and Labor in the Economy

  • Despite the 40-hour standard maximum work week, some lines of work require more than 40 hours to complete the tasks of the job.
  • The state of labor law at any one time is, therefore, both the product of, and a component of, struggles between different interests in society.
  • Commercial law is the body of law that applies to the rights, relations, and conduct of persons and businesses engaged in commerce, merchandising, trade, and sales.
  • It is often considered to be a branch of civil law and deals with issues of both private law and public law.
  • Encyclopedic both as a document of carpentry during that era and as a historic example of early color photography.

• The 15th Amendment

  • In southern states, the total number of white registered was about 600,000 while blacks were about 703,400.
  • The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
  • The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (for example, slavery).
  • "The Fifteenth Amendment", an 1870 print celebrating the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in February 1870, and the advancements that African-Americans had made as a result of the Civil War.
  • State the group of citizens extended protection by the 15th Amendment

• Immigration Reform

  • House of Representatives passed the Border Protection, Anti-terrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, and, in 2006, the U.S.
  • The Arizona immigration law directs law enforcement officials to ask for immigration papers on a reasonable suspicion that a person might be an illegal immigrant.
  • On July 6, 2010, the US Department of Justice filed suit against Arizona with the intent of preventing the state from enforcing the law and asks the court to find certain sections of the legislation null and void.
  • HB 2162 includes that race, color, and national origin would not play a role in prosecution; in order to investigate an individual's immigration status, he or she must be "lawfully stopped, arrested or detained. "
  • Other calls for reform include increased transparency at the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and more diversity of experience among immigration judges, the majority of whom previously held positions adversarial to immigrants.