The United States is a diverse country, racially and ethnically. Six races are officially recognized :
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White
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American Indian
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Alaska Native
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Asian
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Black or African American
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Native Hawaiian
The United States Census Bureau also classifies Americans as « Hispanics or Latino »and « Not Hispanic or Latino », which identifies Hispanic and Latino Americans as a racially diverse ethnicity that composes the largest minority group in the nation.
Interracial marriage :
Interracial marriage in USA is autorized since 1967 thanks to the Supreme court decision, who deemed anti-miscenegation laws as an unconstitutional principle. So they legalize interracial marriage.
In 2010 18% of heterosexual unmarried couples were of different races.
The geographical distribution :
In the United States the distribution of the different is unequal because we can see on the map below (1) that all the different ethnicities are separated on some districts but they aren’t mixed.
We also have more precise figures ( see the table this below(2)). This a table which represents the percentage of each Race in USA.
We can see the large white majority in USA.
Some references on the net :
On the net you can have a lots of documents in touch with this subject, like videos, interviews… We selected few documents that you can find on internet :
– The first is an interview of Randall Kennedy, that you will find at this internet address :
This interview appeared in «Le Monde» on 2010
– The second is a famous speech of Obama pronounced on 18 of March 2008 during his first mandate. You can hear this speech on youtube at this link this below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=FR&v=zrp-v2tHaDo&hl=fr
This speech spoke about race relationship in USA. Obama spoke about racial tensions, white privilege and race and inequlities in USA.
References :
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Wikipédia
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Google Images
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Le Monde february 2010