African-Americans Americanization Experience

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African Americans

Presentation for

Group Discussions

Demographic

Statistics

Population Statistics

• African Americans were presented as 42 million

citizens in the 2012 census report – representing 13.6%

of total U.S. population

• It is projected that by 2050 the population will be at 65.7

million, or 15% of total population

Annual Median Income

• The annual median salary for African American

households in 2010 was $32,068, a 3.2% decline from

2009.

• The group poverty rate was 27.4%

Population Statistics (continued)

Gender/Age Representation – 2013

• The average age for African Americans males was 21.5

years, which was 48% of total population of African

Americans

• The average life expectancy for African American males is

67.66 years – African American women is 74.64

Historical

Representativeness in

American Society

1600s

1619 - 20 Africans are sold at Jamestown as indentured servants

1625 - First enslaved Africans reach New Amsterdam

1641 - Mathias De Sousa

1663 - Maryland slave laws

1672 - Royal African Company

1700s 1711 - Queen Anne overturns Pennsylvania law

1741 - South Carolina passes extensive slave laws

1775 - Revolutionary War

1777 - Vermont bans slavery

1787 - US Constitution

1793 - Fugitive Slave Law

1800s 1808 - US bans slave importation

1815 - Levi Coffin establishes the Underground Railroad in Indiana

1842 - Prigg vs. Pennsylvania

1858 - Arkansas enslaves free African Americans

1859 - Harpers Ferry

1860 - South Carolina secedes

1862 - Emancipation Proclamation

1800s 1865 - 13th Amendment

1868 - 14th Amendment

1870 - 15th Amendment

1875 - Civil Rights Act of 1875

1883 -Civil Rights Cases

1896 - Plessy vs. Ferguson

1900s 1913 - Woodrow Wilson administration initiates segregation

1938 - Missouri ex rel. Gaines vs. Canada

1954 - Brown vs. Board of Education

1960 - Civil Rights Act of 1960

1963 - “I have a dream” speech

1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964

1968 - Civil Rights Act of 1968

2000s

2008 - Barack Obama

2012 - Trayvon Martin

2014 - Michael Brown

2014 - Eric Garner

Economic Outlook

https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=V8eZtBAMDww

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Employment/Unemployment rate

(2015) Race In Labor Force Employed Unemployment Rate

Overall 63.9% 57.7% 9.2%

White 63.8% 58.3% 7.9%

Black 62.2% 51.8% 16.1%

Race Percent below poverty

Overall 15.6%

White 12.8%

Black 27.3%

Poverty Rate

Household Income

Wealth Holdings

Homeownership

2 Billionaires

There are only two black

billionaires in the US - chat

show host Oprah Winfrey

and former basketball star

Michael Jordan. This

compared with about 500

white billionaires.

- BBC News

How home ownership keeps blacks poorer

than whites? • “Wealthy minority neighborhoods had less home value per dollar

of income than wealthy white neighborhoods.”

• “Poor white neighborhoods had more home value per income than poor minority neighborhoods.”

• When homeowners had similar incomes, black-owned homes were valued at 18% less than white-owned homes.

Education & Marital

Status

Education Statistics

Undergraduate Enrollment

Education Progress Report

Inequality Status – Possible

Causes

Possible Cause – Socioeconomics

Status

Possible Cause – Parental

Education Level

Possible Cause – Marital

Statistics Now married Widowed Divorced Separated Never Married

White 51.8% 6.4% 11.3% 1.8% 28.8%

African American 29.2% 5.8% 12.0% 4.2% 48.9%

American Indian and

Alaska Native

36.8% 4.9% 13.0% 3.1% 42.1%

Asian 58.0% 4.5% 5.1% 1.3% 31.2%

Native Hawaiian and

Other Pacific Islander

46.5% 4.1% 8.0% 2.4% 39%

Mainstream Orientation

Status

Mainstream Orientation

Membership ➢ Stable Family Household

➢ Upstanding citizen

➢ Contribute to the country’s work force

Family Life – Divorce Rates

Black Men & Women Marriage

Statistics

Divorce Statistics (Family Life)

➢ African Americans are 10.8% of divorce rates for individuals 15

years and older

- Over 10% higher than the average divorce rate for all races

➢ 48.9% percent of African Americans have never married

- Over 50% times higher than the average rate for all races

Black Family Statistics (Family Life)

➢ More than 72% percent of African American children are born

out-of-wedlock

➢ About 67% percent of children ages 18 and under live in a

single-parent household

One-Parent and Two-Parent Homes –

By Race

Sustaining Status as an Upstanding

Citizen

Statistics – Incarceration

➢ A black male born in 1991 has a 29% chance of spending

time in prison at some point in his life.

➢ One out of nine African American men will be incarcerated

between the ages of 20 and 34.

Statistics – Incarceration

➢ Black males ages 30 to 34 have the highest incarceration

rate of any race/ethnicity gender and age combination.

➢ In 2014, 6% of all black males ages 30 to 39 were in

prison (Hispanics = 2%, white males = 1%)

Incarceration Tables

Sentenced Prisoners under federal correctional authority

Sentenced under state jurisdiction

Total White Hispanic African American

192,663 51600 63700 71300

26.78% 33.06% 37.01%

Total White Hispanic African American

1,325,305 468600 274200 497000

35.36% 20.69% 37.50%

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