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Representative Patsy Mink declares the formation of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus in 1994. Asian/Pacific American (APA) or Asian/Pacific Islander (API) or Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) or Asian American and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) is a term sometimes used in the United States when including both Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.
In the United States, the term hyphenated American refers to the use of a hyphen (in some styles of writing) between the name of an ethnicity and the word American in compound nouns, e.g., as in Irish-American. Calling a person a "hyphenated American" was used as an insult alleging divided political or national loyalties, especially in times of ...
Jeffrey Lesser wrote: "While there are no linguistic categories that acknowledge hyphenated ethnicity (a third generation Brazilian of Japanese descendant remains 'Japanese' while a fourth-generation Brazilian of Lebanese descent may become a turco, an arabe, a sirio, or a sirio-libanese), in fact immigrant communities aggressively tried to negotiate a status that allowed for both Brazilian ...
As with the terms "Asian American" or "South Asian American," the term "Pakistani American" is an umbrella term applying to a variety of views, values, lifestyles, and appearances. Although Pakistani Americans retain a strong ethnic identity, they are known to assimilate into American culture while at the same time keeping the culture of their ...
A 2002 survey of Americans' attitudes toward Asian Americans and Chinese Americans indicated that 24% of the respondents disapprove of intermarriage with an Asian American, second only to African Americans; 23% would be uncomfortable supporting an Asian American presidential candidate, compared to 15% for an African American, 14% for a woman ...
Though the term was originally coined in reference to Indian Americans, it has been adopted by the South Asian diaspora at large. The term desi comes from the Hindi word देश (deś, lit. ' homeland '). The word has its origin in Sanskrit, deśa, and is pronounced desh in the Bengali language.
English: Dr. Katie Bramlett, an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program at California State University, East Bay and a 2021-22 CCCC Wikipedia Graduate Fellow, presents "Genres of Memory and Asian/American Women's Activism." Dr. Brtamlett explores three distinct memorial genres—a statue, a ...
Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People is a non-fiction book by Helen Zia, published in 2000 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.. The book chronicles Zia's childhood in New Jersey and her interactions with American racial dynamics of the mid-20th century.