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Name Image Term Ethnicity State Party Offices held Kamala Harris (1964–) 2021–present: Indian American: California: Democratic: Harris, who is half Indian American, [8] became the US' first female vice president, the highest-ranking female elected official in U.S. history, and the first African-American and first Asian-American vice president.
Robert George Lee is an associate professor emeritus of American Studies at Brown University.He has authored key texts in Asian American Studies [1] and, nominated by his current and former students and his colleagues, was awarded the Association for Asian American Studies' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.
Violent acts against Asian Americans, like the one which occurred in October 1871, when a mob murdered 19 Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles (Chinese Massacre of 1871), [6] in July 1877, when a crowd in San Francisco burned much of the city's Chinatown (San Francisco Riot of 1877), [7] when miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, killed at least 28 ...
Ramakrishnan said the concept of Asian American representation can be divided into "descriptive," meaning physically representative of a group, and "substantive," meaning representative of the ...
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Monday declined to decide whether Asian Americans and white students can challenge a school's admissions policy as discriminatory even if those racial groups ...
This is a list of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans in the U.S. Congress. Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The term refers to a panethnic group that includes diverse populations with ancestral origins in East Asia, South Asia or Southeast Asia, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. [1]
The book chronicles Zia's childhood in New Jersey and her interactions with American racial dynamics of the mid-20th century. Somini Gengupta of The New York Times stated that the book has a "polemical" tone and that it "is part memoir, part social history". [1] It also discusses the murder of Vincent Chin and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. [2]
The production of "Frozen" by PS 124 helps Asian-American kids break stereotypes and tackle diversity and inclusion - and it's all captured on film.