Subject

Item set

• African Americans
  African Americans refers to people in America who have African ancestry and who are legally, socially, and politically racialized as Black. This includes Afro-Indigenous or Black Natives and their descendants, Black people who were enslaved by the Five Tribes. The term African Americans does not take into account the complexities and diversities of Black identities in the United States over time. African Americans have faced enslavement, racial, social, sexual, and political discrimination throughout U.S. history.
• Asian Americans
  Asian Americans refers to people in America who have Asian ancestry and who may or may not have achieved citizenship due to discriminatory exclusion laws. These laws often defined Asian Americans as "aliens ineligible for citizenship." The term Asian American does not take into account the complexities of Asian identities in the United States. Asian Americans have faced racial, social, sexual, and political discrimination throughout U.S. history.
• Children
  Under the law, a child is a person who is below the legal age of majority, which differs from state to state.
• Freedpeople
  This term refers to formerly enslaved people who have obtained their freedom through freedom-making efforts, manumission, the courts, or by legislation.
• Immigrants
  Immigrants refers to people who come to live in the United States from a foreign country. Immigrants are often referred to as aliens prior to gaining citizenship.
• Incarcerated People
  Incarcerated people refers to individuals who have been detained and/or interned in prisons, institutions, or camps, such as Japanese Americans, migrants, and Native Americans who have been forcibly removed from their land.
• Indigenous Peoples
  Indigenous Peoples refers to the native inhabitants of regions outside of the continental United States, such as the Caribbean and Central America.
• Latinx
  Latinx is a term used in English to refer to people of Latin American cultural or ethnic identity in the United States. The term is a gender-neutral or nonbinary alternative to Latino or Latina. It also includes people that identify as Hispanic and Chicano/a.
• LGBTQ+
  LGBTQ+ is an umbrella term that refers to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities. The initialism refers broadly to sexualities, romantic orientations, and gender identities that are not heterosexual, heteroromantic, or cisgender. Discrimination and marginalization against LGBTQ+ people is often influenced by other social categorizations such as race, religion, class, and gender.
• Native Americans
  Native Americans are the peoples indigenous to the land and territories that would become the United States. European and American colonization decimated the population through genocide, warfare, enslavement, disease, and removal. The rights and privileges afforded to Native Americans have varied over the course of U.S. history as the legal status of sovereign tribal nations has evolved. This term includes Afro-Indigenous or Black Natives and their descendants, Black people who were enslaved by the Five Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and Choctaw). Native Americans have historically been referred to as "Indians" by the federal government.
• People with Disabilities
  People with Disabilities refers to individuals who have a physical or mental impairment. While the legal definition of disability, as designated in the Americans with Disabilities Act, is an impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, disability encompasses a wide range of conditions and experiences. Disability includes but is not limited to mental health disabilities, chronic illnesses, intellectual disabilities, and hearing and vision disabilities.
• Territorial Citizens
  Territorial citizens refers to citizens of the five permanently inhabited United States territories: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. It also includes former territory, the Philippines. Prior to receiving citizenship from Congress, territorial citizens were referred to as U.S. nationals.
• Women
  Women refers to adult people who identify as female. The rights and entitlements fought for by women over the course of U.S. history include the right to bodily integrity and autonomy, enfranchisement, reproductive rights, and equality in pay. Historically, mainstream feminist discourse has minimized or even erased the role of women of color in the movements for women’s rights.