Race 3

Question 1

With only one-quarter of whites reporting a second ancestry in 2000 and less than 2 percent of blacks, what does that say about American identity? These figures are lower then what they were in 1980.

Answer 1

That there is a diminishing acknowledgement of ancestral complexity. (Perez et al. 2009)

Question 2

When did Chinese immigrants first arrive in North America in substantial numbers? And what act halted their migration and when did that occur?

Answer 2

1850s, the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

Question 3

When did Japanese immigrants begin to arrive in North America?

Answer 3

Late 19th and early 20th centuries following the ban on Chinese immigration.

Question 4

What decade was there a passage of immigration laws setting quotas for Asians and what were they? Also, when were those laws liberalized?

Answer 4

1920s (Immigration Act of 1924), the quotas were zero, they were liberalized in the 1960s. (Perez et al 2009)

Question 5

What percent of Japanese Americans report a multiracial ancestry?

Answer 5

25 percent