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	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Indeed, the growing conservatism of the American majors meant issues like these, particularly by contrast with popular British, French and Australian films of the period, those by Stephen Frears, Chantal Akerman and Sally Potter, for example, were treated only in the blandest, most inoffensive terms.
		Likewise acting as a mouthpiece for an American society increasingly denied a voice by mainstream Hollywood were so-called 'white male' independent directors.
		American independent cinema by the end of the 1990s had it seemed, no matter what the approach, achieved every requirement to make it eligible for national cinema status: economic sovereignty, a genuine concern for the nation and, with the approval of great domestic film institutions, popular as well as critical acceptance.
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue6/americancinema.html (2987 words)

	United States ETHNIC GROUPS
		The majority of the population of the United States is of European origin, with the largest groups having primary ancestry traceable to the United Kingdom, Germany, and Ireland; many Americans report multiple ancestries.
		Their survival, however, has been on the fringes of North American society, especially as a result of the implementation of a national policy of resettling Native American tribes on reservations.
		The fl population in 2000 was estimated at 34,658,190, with the majority still residing in the South, the region that absorbed most of the slaves brought from Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Americas/United-States-ETHNIC-GROUPS.html (702 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Because white Americans have faced the least discrimination of any racial or ethnic group, they have had time to build up wealth; this is a major contributor to economic inequities among races today.
		Slavic Americans were classified as legally white upon their arrival at Ellis Island.Due to large numbers, legislation was also passed, such as the Immigration Act of 1924 to restrict and reduce their further entry.
		In Jim Crow era Mississippi, however, Chinese American children were allowed to attend white-only schools and universities, rather than attend fl-only schools, and some of their parents became members of the infamous Mississippi "White Citizens' Council" who enforced policies of racial segregation.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=White_Americans (4547 words)

	People Like Me Viewer's Guide: Dance Style Locator : North American Dance
		At some point in their ancestries, almost all Americans either immigrated or were forcibly brought to this country.
		By studying traditional American music and dance, and its roots, students can come to understand the development of American traditions, and the roles of their ancestors and themselves in the creation of American culture.
		American step dancing, and the old-time string band music that accompanies it, arose from the combination of cultures that lived in the Southern Appalachian mountains as this country was born.
	www.worldartswest.org /plm/guide/locator/namerican.shtml (1587 words)

	Internment of Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps
		Hirbayashi, an American citizen of Japanese ancestry, was convicted in the district court of knowingly disregarding restrictions made applicable by a military commander to persons in a military area prescribed by him as such, all as authorized by an Executive Order of the President.
		There is support for the view that social, economic and political conditions which have prevailed since the close of the last century, when the Japanese began to come to this country in substantial numbers, have intensified their solidarity and have in large measure prevented their assimilation as an integral part of the white population.
		American citizen of Japanese ancestry petitioned for writ of coram nobis to vacate his 1942 conviction for being in a place from which all persons of Japanese ancestry were excluded pursuant to a civilian exclusion order.
	academic.udayton.edu /race/02rights/intern01.htm (3646 words)

	ILW.COM - immigration news: The Hidden History Of Immigration: All Parts Compiled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Most Americans were more likely to think of their ancestors as colonists, pioneers, frontiersmen or settlers.
		Americans suspected that the hordes of Irish flocking to the police force and enlisting in the army were sleeper agents for a Romish invasion, which would engulf America on orders from the Pope.
		Of course, in saying this, I am omitting African Americans, whose ancestors did not choose to come to America, but came under the compulsion of slavery and are thus not considered immigrants in the usual sense.
	www.ilw.com /lawyers/articles/2003,0922-ford.shtm (4872 words)

	Arab Americans
		Although the official count of those who list an Arab country among their top two ancestries is 870,000 (1990 census), some estimate that the figure is more than one million, and maybe as many as three million.
		This is not necessarily the case for all Arab Americans, although many continue the practice, keeping women close to home and family.
		Arab Americans tend to be highly educated and younger than the overall population of the United States.
	www.thefellowship.info /GlobalMissions/UPG/ArabAmericans.icm (653 words)

	Fewer Americans remember ancestry: 6/8/02
		Many Americans are descended from Europeans who arrived in the 1800s or early 1900s.
		The number of people writing in "American" for their ancestry increased from 13 million in 1990 to 20 million in 2000.
		The tendency to report an ancestry was highest in the Midwest and Northeast, and lowest in the South.
	www.s-t.com /daily/06-02/06-08-02/a02wn014.htm (592 words)

	European American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A European American, or a Euro-American, is a person who resides in the United States and is either the descendant of European immigrants or from Europe him or herself.
		The term European American is more narrow than White American in that these terms in their official usage include Americans of European, North African, and Middle Eastern ancestry.
		According to the opinion of one social scientist, the term European American has increased somewhat in use but White American, Caucasian American and Anglo continue to be equally preferred depending on the descent of the given individual(s) or group to which the term refers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European-American (584 words)

	United States of America - MaxTravelz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Yet there is a culture that is said to be American, in a way a stereotype of what America wishes itself to be, a culture that people over the globe have seen in Hollywood film, and that has energized immigrants from all over the world.
		Americans are also highly mobile, and many people in one area may have grown up in another, bringing their political preferences with them.
		Americans tend to speak their native dialect, but when speaking formally, they speak something similiar to a flat "Midwestern" accent, much popularized by radio, TV and movies.
	www.maxtravelz.com /united_states_of_america.htm (13550 words)

	USATODAY.com - DNA rewrites history for African-Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		About 30% of fl Americans who take DNA tests to determine their African lineage prove to be descended from Europeans on their father's side, says Rick Kittles, scientific director of African Ancestry, a Washington, D.C., company that began offering the tests in 2003.
		In Oakland, a member of Melvyn Gillette's amateur genealogical group was crushed to learn that her line of male ancestors traced back to a white Italian, and not a fl resident of Madagascar as she had expected.
		At African Ancestry, an unhappy customer peppered company President Gina Paige with e-mails after DNA testing of his male line indicated that he had descended from a white man. "He was especially upset that (the ancestor) was German," she recalls.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/genetics/2006-02-01-dna-african-americans_x.htm (1831 words)

	United States of America - Wikitravel
		Americans seldom speak languages other than English, unless they are from an immigrant community; visitors are generally expected to speak and understand English.
		Note that the size of American coins does not necessarily correspond to their relative value: the dime is the smallest coin, followed by the penny, nickel and quarter.
		Americans generally use private health insurance, paid either by their employer or out of their own pocket; some risk paying high hospital bills themselves, or depend on charity.
	wikitravel.org /en/USA (14945 words)

	Migration Information Source - The People Perceived as a Threat to Security: Arab Americans Since September 11
		According to the US Census Bureau, Arab Americans are those who responded to the 2000 census question about ancestry by listing a predominantly Arabic-speaking country or part of the world as their place of origin.
		Rather, Arab Americans are considered white, defined by the Census Bureau as "a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa." This distinction dates back to court decisions from 1913 to 1917 on the "whiteness" of Syrian and Palestinian immigrants.
		Although these decreases are unlikely to isolate Arab Americans from their friends and family in the Middle East and North Africa, it may indicate a decrease in the interactions between people who are Arab and live in the Middle East and Americans who live in the United States.
	www.migrationinformation.org /Feature/display.cfm?id=409 (2712 words)

	Arab American Research
		Regardless of ancestry, 67.4 percent of entrepreneurs are male, 32.6 percent female.
		Entrepreneurs of all ancestries in the United States are likely to be married (74.3 percent for non-Arab-Americans and 73.6 percent for Arab-Americans).
		Entrepreneurs of every ancestry in executive, precision repair, and sales occupations commonly have some college experience, while most in service occupations have not gone beyond high school.
	www.arabamericanresearch.com /pages/4/index.htm (2252 words)

	Census nods to new views of ethnicity
		In 1995, for example, 1 in 15 Americans had multiple ancestries; by 2050, the figure could be 1 in 5.
		American Indians will loom large in the new racial accounting, the Washington state survey suggests.
		Zhao said the surprisingly small response for Asian Americans is likely driven by the influx of recent immigrants.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /cmpdr2000/census/censusnods.htm (510 words)

	Stupid Americans
		Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.
		Americans: This is the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln, the second largest ship in the United States Atlantic fleet.
		Most American Blacks are five or more generations removed from their African ancestries, yet PC requires us to call them "African-Americans".
	www.romankoch.ch /lachhaft/stupidamericans.htm (7097 words)

	Observer Newspaper - News
		McGriff, who claims a mix of Irish and African ancestry in his family, traced the origin of intraracial prejudice to the onset of the slave trade in Portugal in 1493.
		A division was created among African Americans when many were brought into the slave trade by members of their own racial group — not only whites.
		McGriff was critical of Marcus Garvey's leadership in the fl community, arguing that Garvey's view of racial solidarity to unite African Americans was selective and did not include all members of the race because of visual differences in skin tone.
	www.nd.edu /~observer/02202001/News/2.html (957 words)

	Council for Responsible Genetics
		Ancestry refers to an individual’s line of descent that can be traced through ancestors back to a geographic region(s) of origin.
		For example, Ancestry by DNA claims that they are able to map a person’s ethnicity to among four anthropologically defined groups: Native American, East Asian, Sub-Saharan African, and European.
		Examination of ancestry and ethnic affiliation using highly informative diallelic DNA markers: application to diverse and admixed populations and implications for clinical epidemiology and forensic medicine.
	www.gene-watch.org /programs/determinism/Race.html (3195 words)

	Parsing Asian America 1/4 \| Asian American Demographics \| Goldsea
		Even we Asian Americans are confused by the subtleties and contradictions that seem to underlie the demographics of America's fastest-growing, best-educated and most affluent ethnic group.
		I am married to a Corean American whose family immigrated to the U.S. in 1970 when he was seven.
		An important thread in the evolution of today's Asian American identity is the way native-born and immigrant Asian Americans came to understand, accept and even respect one another.
	goldsea.com /AAD/Parsing/parsing.html (1294 words)

	Chismes de mi gallinero
		To paraphrase, the person asked why candidates are spending so much money and effort to `…go after the Latino vote rather than the American vote.' And so the 2002-election year gets underway and we are once again fodder for ultra-conservatives.
		The norm for Republicans is to wrap themselves around the American flag, rile against taxes and lay claim to conservatism.
		They forget that unlike European Americans, who's ancestries are cut off by oceans, our roots are continuously connected.
	www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/january25-02/JULIO.HTM (1173 words)

	United States of America
		Americans tend to speak their native dialect, but when speaking formally, they speak something similar to a flat "Midwestern" accent, much popularized by radio, TV and movies.
		American police make wide use of the "sting" operation, in which a police officer may pose as, say, a drug dealer or a prostitute in order to catch and arrest persons intending to buy such services.
		Americans generally use private health insurance, paid either by their employer or out of their own pocket, or go without access to health care altogether.
	e-journey.net /USA (14931 words)

	Fewer claiming European ancestries Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Overall, while the U.S. population rose 13% over the decade to 281 million, the total ancestry responses declined from 296 million in 1990 to 287 million in 2000.
		Results for a select number of ancestries from the most recent release showed declines mainly in European heritage.
		In Wisconsin, the total number of ancestry responses also declined -- by about 3% -- even though the state's population increased by nearly 10%.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20020608/ai_n10781274 (677 words)

	Ethnicity and Race: What are You?
		In the 1990 U.S. census, everyone who was not defined as being Native American, Asian, or Pacific Islander apparently was assumed to be "fl" or "white." This simplistic system was used despite the fact that for four centuries, there has been considerable intergroup mating and extensive cultural exchanges between European, African, and Native Americans.
		Many Americans of mixed ancestry do not fully identify with the single racial/ethnic category that they have been assigned to and do not feel comfortable with it.
		For many Americans with complex ancestries such as this, the answer is that they are multi-racial, mixed-racial, or multi-ethnic.
	anthro.palomar.edu /ethnicity/ethnic_4.htm (1343 words)

	Senate Halts Effort to Dismantle U.S. - HUMAN EVENTS
		Americans whose ancestors came from many other places celebrate that ancestry, whether it be from Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, the Americas.
		To be recognized as an Indian tribe under U.S. law, a group must have operated as sovereign for the previous 100 years, must be a distinct community, and must have had a preexisting political organization.
		What sets the U.S. apart is its ability to mold its multiple ancestries and diversity into a single nation based upon common principles, language and traditions.
	www.humanevents.com /article.php?id=15462 (828 words)

	PaSDC Research Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		German ancestry was the most widely claimed in the same Census with 4,459,707 Pennsylvanians (40.4 percent) tracing their heritage back to that nation.
		Although Irish ancestry is represented throughout the state, 24 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties reported one-fourth or more of the population with Irish or ScotchIrish ancestry.
		In the northeast section of the state, Irish ancestry is prevalent in Lackawanna County, in the west, in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, and in the northwest, in Erie County.
	pasdc.hbg.psu.edu /PaSDC/briefs/brief575.html (461 words)

	Mein Gott! America is the new Germany
		Americans’ ancestries are a hotchpotch, and which surname a US citizen ends up with can be haphazard, saying little about his family’s active cultural inheritance.
		Americans may have a Germanic temperment, but very few would even recognize the "Horst Wessel Lied" much less be able to sing it.
		Well, it's true insofar that a large percentage of Americans can trace their ancestry back to Germany, but they are perhaps the least ethnic of all people I've met as they assimilated rapidly and have been here the longest.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/932841/posts (3802 words)

	CQPolitics.com - Asian Americans’ Political Clout Increasing, Says Report
		But a report released Wednesday by the Asian American Action (AAA) Fund, a Democratic political action committee, said recent trends in demographics and political activity point to a decided increase in electoral participation by Asian residents in this election year and beyond.
		According to the report, which was released in conjunction with a conference call with reporters, the number of political candidates and officeholders of Asian descent have increased dramatically over the past decade.
		In 2004, Asian Americans were the only racial group that supported Bush less in 2004 than in 2000.
	www.cqpolitics.com /2006/06/asian_americans_political_clou.html (1482 words)

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