According to a 2004 Gallup poll, a majority of African-Americans and Hispanics were dissatisfied with the direction of the United States. Not only were most dissatisfied, but the percentage of African-Americans and Hispanics who were satisfied dropped substantially from 2001. In 2004 only 35% of Hispanics were satisfied with the direction of the country, down from 53% in 2001. In 2004 only about 1…
In "Black Dissatisfaction Simmers beneath Good Race Relations" (August 22, 2003, http://poll.gallup.com/content/default.aspx?ci=9100), Lydia Saad reports that 68% of Americans believed that African-Americans in their own communities are treated as well as whites. This figure, however, masks a distinct divide, with only 39% of blacks reporting that African-Americans are FIGURE 9.1 P…
When asked in a Gallup poll in June 2004 about relations between racial and ethnic groups, 72% of Americans maintained that relations between African-Americans and whites were somewhat or very good, 74% thought relations between whites and Hispanics were somewhat or very good, and 81% thought relations between whites and Asian-Americans were somewhat or very good. (See Figure 9.6.) In "Raci…
After the September 11, 2001 (9/11), terrorist attacks against the United States, in which Middle Eastern terrorists hijacked four planes—crashing two into the World Trade Center in New York City, one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and one into a field in Pennsylvania—the number of accusations of discrimination against Muslims or people of Middle Eastern descent increased. Sh…
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