Minority and Marginalized Identities in the U.S. Social Sciences Paper

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Minority and Marginalized Identities in the U.S
The United States faces the challenge of balancing identifications and attachment to the states with more diverse ethnic groups. The issue has raised many questions, especially in the United States, whose states are characterized by multiethnic and pluralistic population. Today, the issue continues to gnaw and raise debates in different countries around the world as ethnic diversity contiues to grow. This essay uses John Sherman and Michael Omi’s ‘The New Normative: Queer Politics in the Out’ and ‘In Living Color: Race and American Culture’ books respectively to elucidate the minority and marginalized identities that are reflected in America’s self-image today.
John Sherman’s ‘The New Normative: Queer Politics in the Out’ is a text which is centered on gays and lesbians. The book talks about the difficulties and challenges which include lack of social recognition and inclusion in social and economic functions as well as stigmatization. In 2002, only 38% of Americans accepted that gay and lesbianism is a morally upright and acceptable relationship (Gorman-Murray 112). However, today, the percentage of Americans who recognize that the notion of gay and lesbianism is ethically acceptable in the United States has significantly risen to about 63%. This type of social identity, according to John Sherman, was considered to be queer because they faced challenges to engage in same-sex friendships and romantic relationships because of the opposition from the notion created around these types of involvement from the popular majority (Sherman para.6). However, the significant growth in the number of people in the United States who support this type of social identity has dramatically shaped and changed the country’s self-image.
According to a survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau of Statistics, there is an increased rate in the number of people who live in same-sex households in the 21st century more than ever before. Several other nongovernmental and governmental researches have also analyzed sexual orientation (Gorman-Murray 117). Studies have shown that approximately 38% of the U.S population consists of people who identify themselves as gay and lesbians. Today, many states in the United States have enacted bills to legalize same-sex relationships.
‘The New Normative: Queer Politics in the Out’ blends a myriad of beliefs regarding the contemporary whimsical believes with an utmost unnoticeable lens of truth. Sherman presents only two instances where same-sex partners refer to group sex or sleeping with other partners without drawing too much attention to it. The situation does not stir rage or surprise the audience, which leads to the continuation of the discussion (Gorman-Murray 115). The entire story about same-sex couples in Sherman’s series elucidates how most people deject this form of social identity, terming it morally unethical. Like the title of the play suggests, behaviors such as attraction towards individuals of the same sex degrade the moral fabric of a community are thus, should be treated as such...