Identity News 1.24

• Evangelicals rejoice as Trump announces plan to attend March for Life rally in Washington DC  (Yahoo! News)
• African-Americans are 13% of the population, but make up 40% of the homeless (New York Daily News)
• Thousands of veteran housing vouchers go unused (Wall Street Journal)
• Idaho Republican pushes legislation to keep Native American sports names and symbols (East Idaho News)
• Some states trying to block trans kids from playing high school sports (Daily Beast)
• Gen Z flocks to atheism (Patheos) 

Reflection 1: A More Perfect Union—On the Future and Mixed-Race Americans

President Obama was often lauded as our first black president, but he might've been more accurately identified as our first mixed-race president. That he was viewed as solely black, when was actually half white, pointed to our country's complicated relationship with race. In fact, President Obama may very well have provided the nation a peek at its future. Twenty-first century Americans will look markedly different than those that came before them. Current models predict America will become a majority-minority nation by 2045. And mixed-race Americans (sometimes called "biracial," "multiracial," or "interracial" depending on the individual), who are growing at a rate three times as fast as the population as a whole, may play a pivotal role in that transformation. But just how might future mixed-race individuals, couples, and families reshape what has been a traditionally majority-white nation? And what challenges could they face along the way?

Include at least two of the following pieces in your discussion:

• "The Biracial Advantage" (Psychology Today)
• "Multiracial in America: Proud, Diverse and Growing in Numbers" (Pew Research Center)
• "My Heritage is Mixed Race. Chances Are Decent That Yours is, Too" (Daily Beast)
• "What Makes Someone Identify as Multiracial?" (FiveThirtyEight)
• "Raising a Biracial Child as a Mother of Color" (Atlantic)
• "Key Facts About Race and Marriage, 50 Years After Loving v. Virginia" (Pew Research Center)

Required:

• MLA Style
• Approximately 300 words
• Works cited 

Due: Fri 1.31

Week 1: WASPs - Fri 1.24

Week 1: Fri 1.24 - WASPs

Class: Syllabus Review; Introductions; Lecture—“Crafting the Essay: Writing as a Process,” “MLA Style 101”

Upcoming:

Week 2: Fri 1.31 - Millennials

Read: There—Part 1: Remain

Class: DIAGNOSTIC; Presentation partner and topic assignments; Lecture—“Building a Better Multimedia Presentation: An Annotated Look”

Due: REFLECTION 1