PP Notes Minority Women

Hispanic Women in America

Large Mexican immigrants began coming into the U.S. in the 20s, as MX was exempt from immigration laws
During Great Depression, exported
Labor struggles
Civil Rights Movement
Ceasar Chavez and Dolores Huerta
Impact to Democratic Party
The Chicano Movement




Hispanic women: isolated from external society because of demands in home (cultural)
Limited by language and literacy
Poor medical care
Dominated domestic and agricultural labor (provided cheap work force) but thus lacked decent working conditions
Racial disempowerment: both gender and race
Affirmative Action sought to repair some of the injustice


Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez became the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as well as the first Hispanic woman to serve as chair or ranking member of a full committee in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives.


Issues of children being citizens (Logan, Ut example)
1960s – 80s continued to be a time of struggling for economic and legal recognition, protection and equality
Become a major demographic in political life (voting, lobbying etc)
Black Women in America

Post Harlem Renaissance into identity
Continued issues of prejudice
Civil Rights Movement
Feminist Movements
Affirmative Action
Still disparity in education, wages, standard of living
Issues of divor, violence, single mothers, abandonment



Become a major demographic politically
Largest registered voters/voter turn out of any minority group
Highest levels of education attained than any other minority group
Usually vote Democratic ticket
CURRENT trends show a move toward re-segregation (by blacks, black primary schools)

Second largest consumer group in America
Still have wage disparity and poor at a rate not in line with whites
Under represented in government like all minority groups in U.S.
Asian Women in America

Less than 5% of U.S. population
More urbanized than other minority groups
Women more likely to work
Fewer children than other minority groups
Impacting various elements of cultural
Medical – changed the landscape of American medicine
Have the highest educational qualifications



Includes all of Asia (China, Japan, Pakistan, India, etc.)
Highest rate of college degrees
Vincent Chin 1982
Culturally disapprove of intermarriage but is more common
Seek more heavily to maintain independent culture
In many, women have minimal freedom
Victims to husbands

Other Minority Women in America
Cultural, language, legality
Education
Poverty and Income
Families