{"id":203,"date":"2010-03-25T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=203"},"modified":"2011-11-07T16:07:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:07:43","slug":"who%e2%80%99s-a-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2010\/03\/25\/who%e2%80%99s-a-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s a Minority?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a discussion-provoking activity to be used with \u201c<strong>Why Are There So Many \u2018Minorities?<\/strong>\u201d by Mitch Berbreier\u00a0from the Winter 2004 issue of <em>Contexts. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/files\/2010\/02\/Whos-a-Minority1.pdf\">PDF here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The following is a list of social groups that have advocated or could potentially advocate to be considered \u201cminorities,\u201d awarding them protection from discrimination under the law in the United States. Put a checkmark by the groups that you think should be legally protected from discrimination. Briefly explain your decisions.<\/p>\n<p>___African Americans<\/p>\n<p>___People with disabilities<\/p>\n<p>___Women<\/p>\n<p>___Gay and Lesbian people<\/p>\n<p>___Transgender and transsexual people<\/p>\n<p>___The elderly<\/p>\n<p>___Obese people<\/p>\n<p>___Latinos<\/p>\n<p>___Asian Americans<\/p>\n<p>___Legal Immigrants<\/p>\n<p>___Illegal Immigrants<\/p>\n<p>___Felons<\/p>\n<p>___Native Americans<\/p>\n<p>___Poor people<\/p>\n<p>___Muslims<\/p>\n<p>___White supremacists<\/p>\n<p>___ Non-English speakers<\/p>\n<p>___Atheists<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a discussion-provoking activity to be used with \u201cWhy Are There So Many \u2018Minorities?\u201d by Mitch Berbreier\u00a0from the Winter 2004 issue of Contexts. PDF here. The following is a list of social groups that have advocated or could potentially advocate to be considered \u201cminorities,\u201d awarding them protection from discrimination under the law in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[470,321,837,14],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-discrimination","tag-law","tag-materials","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}