What is minority status

Statutes that define African Americans or Blacks typically define them as individuals with "origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa." This raises the question of whether someone who has lived his life as a white person, but discovers that he has Black African ancestry, is entitled to minority status, which in turn presumptively qualifies a company he owns for disadvantaged business enterprise status, which in turns provides for preferential treatment in bidding for government contracts. Perhaps surprisingly, while there are several cases regarding whether simply having Spanish ancestry is sufficient to make one "Hispanic" for legal purposes (one SBA case, for example, concludes that Sephardic Jews are all "Hispanic" if they self-identity as such), I've only been able to locate one case discussing whether the statutory language should be taken literally, and any African ancestry is sufficient to make one legally African American. The case is Orion Insurance Group v. Washington's Office of Minority & Women's Business Enterprises 54 Fed. Appx. 556 (9th Cir. 2018), though you won't learn many of the facts of the case from reading that opinion. Below is a summary of the case, from a draft law review article (hint to law review-editor readers) I plan to submit soon: Ralph Taylor, a Washington State resident, owns Orion Insurance Company. Taylor is of Caucasian appearance and lived his life as white man. Apparently inspired (or disturbed) by competitors that received ...

Table of Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Minority students include students who were Black, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander, American Indian/Alaska Native, and of Two or more races. Data reflect racial/ethnic data reported by schools. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. What is a minority student? Minority students— those who do not belong to a region’s or nation’s majority racial or ethnic group—may be subject to discrimination, whether sanctioned or passive, that can affect their educational achievement. What is minority status mean? minority, a culturally, ethnically, or racially distinct group that coexists with but is subordinate to a more dominant group. As the term is used in the social sciences, this subordinacy is the chief defining characteristic of a minority group. As such, minority status does not necessarily correlate to population. What is considered a minority applicant? Med-MAR is for U.S. citizens or Permanent Resident Visa holders who identify as economically disadvantaged or who come from the following historically underrepresented ethnic or racial groups in medicine: African-American/Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Hispanic/Latino, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. Recent post: Why Do I Want To Study Design? Who qualifies as a minority in the US? A minority person is a citizen of the United States who is African American, Hispanic, Native American, Asian Pacific, or Asian Indian. African American is a US c...

MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Historically, white Americans have distanced themselves from any non-white ancestry they might have. Now many are claiming it, some because they're proud and some because they're trying to tap into benefits designed for minorities. So what exactly makes someone a minority? As Karen Grigsby Bates from our Code Switch team tells us, it's complicated. KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: President Trump has been mocking Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren's assertion that she has Native American ancestry since 2016. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Pocahontas - that's this Elizabeth Warren. Massachusetts is represented by Pocahontas, right? And Pocahontas is not happy. She's got happy. BATES: Those clips came from Fox and CNN, and there are lots more. In a video released this week, Warren claps back. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) ELIZABETH WARREN: I'm not enrolled in a tribe, and only tribes determine tribal citizenship. I understand and respect that distinction, but my family history is my family history. BATES: So she had her DNA sequenced, which revealed Native American ancestry. Warren says she took the test to prove that her family's tale of having native ancestors had some basis in truth. But not everybody tests for personal validation. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy was in the news recently because a Los Angeles Times investigation revealed that since 2000, his brother-in-law William Wages was awarded more than $7 ...

Minority stress refers to the way that individuals from underrepresented or stigmatized groups experience a number of stressors that directly relate to a minority identity. When the concept of minority stress was initially proposed by a researcher in 1995, it was defined as a form of stress derived from minority status. With respect to gay men, in particular, the chronic stress related to stigmatization was seen as taking the form of: Minority stress is both additive and intersectional. In other words, individuals who are members of multiple minority groups often experience greater minority stress than those individuals who are only members of one minority group. In addition, people with intersectional identities may experience stressors unique to those identities. Microaggressions can also lead to stress. Microaggressions are when people act in discriminatory ways that are subtle or indirect, often without realizing it. An example of this is when two friends are shopping and people insist on talking to the one who is not using a wheelchair, even when she is not the one asking the question or having the interaction. Another example is when people unconsciously cross the street because they see a young man of color approaching, where they wouldn't do so if he were white. In general, health disparities have been shown to be related to a number of factors including differences in: • Access to health care • Quality of care • • Quantity and quality of education Stress and discr...