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Lee, Jonathan H. X. History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots (2015) Ng, Franklin. The Asian American Encyclopedia (6 vol., 1995) Oh, Seiwoong, ed.. Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature (2007) Okihiro, Gary Y. American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders (University of California Press, 2015). xiv, 499 pp. Jeffrey D ...
Asian Americans is a five-hour PBS documentary film series made by ITVS, WETA, and the Center for Asian American Media. [1] [2] [3] The series focus on the history of Asian and Asian American people in the United States and first aired on May 11, 2020.
The phrase Asian-American was coined by Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee in 1968 during the founding of the Asian American Political Alliance, [1] [2] and started to be used by the U.S. census in 1980. [3] Firsts by Asian-Americans in various fields have
Before the 1960s, Asian immigrants to the United States were often perceived as a threat to Western civilization in what became known as "Yellow Peril".This in turn led to the mistreatment and abuse of Asians in America across generations, through historical incidents like the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Japanese internment camps, and the Vietnam War. [4]
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. It's been 43 years since the first proclamation of an AAPI heritage celebration in the U.S. Grace Pai, executive director of Asian ...
In the last two decades, the Asian American population has more than doubled in the U.S., according to census data, with Indian Americans now accounting for the country’s largest Asian group.
Chinese, Indian, and Filipino Americans make up the largest share of the Asian American population with 5.5 million, 5.2 million, and 4.6 million people respectively. These numbers equal 23%, 20%, and 18% of the total Asian American population, or 1.5%, 1.2%, and 1.2% of the total US population. [11]
The Center for Asian American Media has become a big supporter of Cho’s and commissioned her to make several cookie portraits of people featured in a PBS documentary series called “Asian ...