Interminority racism in the United States
Multiculturalist theorists such as Claire Jean Kim criticize this contemporary policy because it refuses to acknowledge the interminority inequalities and antagonisms generated by changing demographics.
[1] In several significant riots in California prisons, for instance, Latino and black inmates targeted each other over racial issues.
Because of the centuries of abuses from historic slavery and its aftermath, discussions of racial tension in the United States have often focused on black-white relations.
At the same time, Asian Americans have been extolled as the “model minority”, because of their record of achievement and statistically high reported educational scores and incomes.
In addition, these two groups (which encompass numerous ancestral backgrounds) have also competed for jobs, education and resources over the decades, and have displayed tensions toward each other.
[12][10] But in the West, which had such a high rate of Asian immigrants that there was white resistance to their presence, the majority passed laws and courts ruled against allowing them the same rights as European Americans.
In 1927 a Chinese family in Mississippi brought suit challenging its daughters' expulsion from a local school for white students.
In Lum v. Rice, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously affirmed that decision, holding that it was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment for states to classify students by race and segregate them on that basis.
[15] Early 20th century Asian nationals, such as Japanese immigrants, were prohibited from owning land or businesses in some states.
But it did not protect such immigrants and their descendants from the varieties of de facto prejudice, bullying, hate crimes, and segregation faced by ethnic minorities.
[18] This sentiment flared especially during the era of racial tension in Los Angeles surrounding the Rodney King case.
[19] As people migrated from Korea during and after the Korean War, many moved to settle in Los Angeles, but could not work in the same traditionally white collar jobs they held back home.
"[23] President Abraham Lincoln diverted several regiments of militia and volunteer troops after the Battle of Gettysburg to control the city.
Conditions in the city were such that Major General John E. Wool, commander of the Department of the East, said on July 16 that "Martial law ought to be proclaimed, but I have not a sufficient force to enforce it.
