Multiracialism In America - Jane Junn

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/08/05/Color_Blind_The_2008_Race_and_Beyond

Political scientist Jane Junn examines shifting views on racial categorization in the United States. Junn notes the increasingly common use of the "Multiracial" designation on the U.S. Census, and discusses what it may mean for American society.

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Barack Obama's success so far in the 2008 election cycle has fostered optimistic rhetoric in mainstream media about race relations in the United States. But does Obama's candidacy transform Martin Luther King Jr.'s American dream into a reality?

A recent New York Times/CBS poll found that Americans are sharply divided by race on their views of Senator Obama and the state of race relations. In addition, with an increased presence of other minority groups, issues regarding race in political and social life are no longer black and white.

What role does race play in the 2008 election and beyond? Can America ever truly be a color-blind society? - The Century Foundation

Jane Junn is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. She holds a joint appointment with the Eagleton Institute of Politics. She received her A.B. from the University of Michigan, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her primary interests are political participation and elections in the U.S., political behavior and attitudes among American minorities and immigrants, theories of democracy, survey research, and social science methodology. Her research has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, CIRCLE, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Spencer Foundation, and the Educational Testing Service. In 1998 she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Hanguk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea. She has been a member of the 2004 Social Science Research Commission on National Elections following the contested 2000 election, and a member of a National Academies of Science panel evaluating the redesign of the U.S. Naturalization test. Her latest book is New Race Politics in America: Understanding Minority and Immigrant Politics. Her book, Education and Democratic Citizenship in America won the 1997 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book published in political science in 1996.

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[BEGOODTOYOURDOG1]

Everybody says the final solution to the RACE problem is for EVERY White country and ONLY White countries to bring in the third world and assimilate with them. Immigration, tolerance, and especially assimilation are being used against the White race. All this immigration and intermarriage is for EVERY White country and ONLY White countries. Anti-White is called anti-racist, but it leads to the disappearance of one race and only one race, the White race. It is genocide.

[BEGOODTOYOURDOG1]

@tybash. In your opinion it is sad; you are only saying that because you are anti-White. You have not addressed ANY of the points I made.

[happinesson]

stop this! and the discrimination will ceased on its own. we will have a peaceful place to live in.

[djchangsta]

@BEGOODTOYOURDOG1 if that were the case, america or canada is not your country, it was taken away from the original people...LOL

[Bronzecop]

@BEGOODTOYOURDOG1 Well one the Japanese are not lazy so they do not need immigrants and two did Japan invade and exploit North America, South America, Africa and the Middle East? Nope. & quit bitchin at least the immigrants are not killing you off your land like you've done to them, ungrateful brat making a big deal out of nothing. & no ones stopping you from learning Arabic and finding a wife in Morroco like my teacher did.

[itsnastasia]

@SeizeTheMoment1000 thank you :) I wonder how long till everyone gets that

[SeizeTheMoment1000]

@itsnastasia, Love how you sum that up, but it's so true.

[subjectb]

Also, even if Asia and Africa were to take Whites immigrants in, you people wouldn't move there anyway because you can't stand living next to us!

[subjectb]

To the white viewers with persecution complex: you, your ancestors, brought this upon yourselves. When you sailed out Europe and sought convert other people to your belief systems; when you lusted after ethnic booty.

I agree with the comment by itsnastasia. May you should seek counseling from with the people you've encroached upon: the Native Americans. They would know how best its feels when a bunch for foreigners start breeding you out of existence.

[itsnastasia]

America is for everyone. First Native Americans were here and the more culture immigrated here. America is a diverse place. The world is becoming a diverse place. Welcome to 2011.