Multi-Racial

Examples of Multi-Racial in the following topics:

• Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

  • The law makes it a crime for individuals to fail to have documents confirming their legal status, and is believed by critics to encourage racial profiling.
  • The United States is a very diverse, multi-racial and multi-ethnic country; people from around the world have been immigrating to the United States for several hundred years.
  • Instead, these racial designations were a means to concentrate power, wealth, land, and privilege in the hands of the European Americans.
  • For example, the racial category of "white" or European American fails to reflect that members of this group hail from very different countries.
  • They, too, have been subjected to racial prejudice.

• Religion and Other Social Factors

  • Only 8% to 10% of congregations in the U.S. today are multi-racial (meaning no one race/ethnicity makes up more than 80% of the congregation).
  • Today, predominately black churches and predominately white churches remain distinct with very few churches catering to mixed race congregations (though megachurches tend to be more multi-racial).
  • Emerson and Smith convincingly argue that white Evangelical Christians in the U.S., because of their belief in individualism, actually contribute to racial inequality.

• Age and Race

  • There is evidence that black senior citizens are more likely to be abused - both physically and psychologically and suffer greater financial exploitation than do white senior citizens.Further, recent demographic profiles suggest that social aging varies across racial groups, and demonstrates that minority elders (especially Hispanic and African American identified) typically enter later life with less education, less financial resources, and less access to health care than their white counterparts.Finally, researchers have noted that minority groups' greater likelihood of facing patterns of structural disadvantage throughout the life course, such as racial discrimination, poverty, and fewer social, political, and economic resources on average, create significant racial variations in the stages or age-related trajectories of racial minorities and majorities that may be observed at all points of the life span, and contribute to disparities in health, income, self-perceived age, mortality, and morbidity.
  • As a result, sociologists often explore the timing (in both subjective and objective conceptualizations of age) of varied life events within and between racial groups while exploring ways that age-related disparities influence the structural realities and bio-social outcomes of people located within different racial groups.

• Racism

  • Children develop an awareness of race and racial stereotypes quite young and these racial stereotypes affect behavior.
  • One response to racial disparity in the U.S. has been Affirmative Action.
  • Another type of racism is racial profiling.
  • Two examples of racial profiling in the United States are often discussed.
  • Expanding on this theme, sociologists have begun to explore "cinethetic racism," which is defined as the portrayal of racial minorities in ways that appeal to white expectations of "good" racial minorities while reproducing the subordination of racial minorities to white needs, desire, and leadership.

• Racism

  • Racism is the belief that different traits of racial groups are inherent and justify discrimination.
  • Racism is the belief that different inherent traits in racial groups justify discrimination.
  • It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature, which is often justified by recourse to racial stereotyping or pseudo-science.
  • Children develop an awareness of race and racial stereotypes quite young (between the ages of 5 and 11), and these racial stereotypes affect behavior.
  • One response to racial disparity in the U.S. has been affirmative action.

• Legal Definition of Race

  • The racial categories represent a social-political construct for the race or races that respondents consider themselves to be.
  • Thus, in addition to assigning a wanted individual to a racial category, such a description will include: height, weight, eye color, scars, and other distinguishing characteristics.
  • In the United States, the practice of racial profiling has been ruled to be both unconstitutional and a violation of civil rights.
  • Many consider de facto racial profiling an example of institutional racism in law enforcement.
  • The history of misuse of racial categories to impact adversely one or more groups and to offer protection and advantage to another has a clear impact on the larger debate.

• Ethnic Groups

  • This is due to the historical and ongoing significance of racial distinctions that categorize together what might otherwise have been viewed as ethnic groups.
  • While a sense of ethnic identity may coexist with racial identity (Chinese Americans among Asian or Irish American among European or White, for example), the long history of the United States as a settler, conqueror, and slave society, and the formal and informal inscription of racialized groupings into law and social stratification schemes has bestowed upon race a fundamental social identification role in the United States.
  • The many previously designated "Oriental" ethnic groups are now classified as the "Asian" racial group for the census.
  • All the aforementioned are categorized as part of the "White" racial group, as per U.S.
  • Explain why ethnic and racial categories tend to overlap in the U.S.

• Aging and Race

  • Individuals with different racial backgrounds tend to have different experiences with old age.
  • Individuals of different racial backgrounds experience aging—and the health issues associated with it—differently .
  • Before turning to the medical concerns that accompany aging, one should note that elders of different racial backgrounds also experience different frequencies of elder abuse.
  • Thus, while one can make generalizations about elder health by comparing racial categories, these differences are frequently caused by differences in socioeconomic status rather than race.

• Bureaucratization of Schools

  • Micro-level aggression can be subtler than outright discrimination like racial slurs.
  • This study indicated that this K-12 educational organization was taking technology beyond a useful application of computers as one-dimensional tools to an emerging multi-dimensional media rich structure that extended learning into a personalized digital educational experience.

• English as a Second Language

  • ESL programs also allow students to meet and form friendships with other non-native speakers from different cultures, promoting racial tolerance and multiculturalism.
  • The United States is participating in a multi-national assistance and support effort led by the Pakistani Government to bring aid to the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck the region on October 8th, 2005.