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Jo-Ann Yoo, executive director of the nonprofit Asian American Federation, a New York-based umbrella organization that works with 70 member agencies, said that for the past few months, her group ...
"The model minority myth chooses to highlight the successful immigrant examples and brush aside the high rates of poverty," Jo-Ann Yoo, executive director of the social services nonprofit Asian ...
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The Asian American Student Union is a student-led organization for Asian American and Pacific Islander students on the East Coast of America. [1] It started in 1993 at the University of Florida. Its activities include organising vigils for incapacitated students, [2] and 'fostering understanding of the current social climate' concerning its ...
Japanese-American culture in Florida (1 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Asian-American culture in Florida" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Gary Locke, elected the first Asian American governor in the mainland United States in November 1996 and became Governor of Washington in January 1997. John Liu, became the first Asian American elected to the New York City Council (representing Flushing, Queens) in 2001. Kinjiro Matsudaira, mayor of Edmonston, Maryland, in 1927 and 1943
Most Chinese Americans feel that the current relationship between the U.S. and China is a negative one, and almost two-thirds think that such contentious relations can affect how other Americans ...
1957: Dalip Singh Saund becomes the first Asian-American elected to the United States Congress, as a Representative for California's 29th district. 1962 Patsy Mink becomes the first Asian-American woman elected to a state legislative body in the United States, in the Hawaii State Senate [48] 1964: Hiram Fong becomes the first Asian-American U.S ...