Globalization and the 90s 27 ECONOMY Globalization of

Globalization and the 90’s 27

ECONOMY Globalization of America Products, culture

NEW IMMIGRATION 1980’s: 6 mil. Paradox Anti-immigrant Asian cultures

MINORITIES Latinos: largest Asians: fastest growing Multiculturalism

10 © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. The California ballot initiative Proposition 187 was designed to deny basic social services, including health and education, to undocumented immigrants. To express their opposition to the legislation, as many as 25, 000 people took the streets in downtown Los Angeles. This photograph shows Grace Lee and a group of fellow students demonstrating in the Westwood section of the city shortly after voters approved the bill known as “the last gasp of White America in California” on November 8, 1994.

FIGURE 31. 1 Continent of Birth for Immigrants, 1990– 2000 By 2000, the number of foreign-born residents and their children— 56 million according to the Census Bureau —had reached the highest level in U. S. history. 11 © 2009 Pearson Education, Inc.