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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 ...
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.
Boom! is an American television game show that premiered on the Fox network on June 25, 2015. An adaptation of an Israeli series with the same title, [1] Boom! is a general-knowledge quiz show where three players must correctly answer questions in order to defuse bombs.
Asian American representation in Hollywood increased significantly over the last 15 years, a new study by the University of Southern California shows.
It is widely recognized as the first Asian-American feature narrative film to gain both theatrical distribution and critical acclaim outside of the Asian American community. [ 5 ] Chan Is Missing turns the Charlie Chan detective trope on its head by making "Chan" the missing person that the film's two protagonists, Jo ( Wood Moy ) and Steve ...
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.
Nguyet Anh Duong (Dương Nguyệt Ánh; born 1960) is an American scientist responsible for the creation of an American thermobaric weapon. [1]She is noted as the "Scientist who developed the bomb that ended the war with Afghanistan" by the Vietnamese American National Gala.
Books and stories by Asian-American (U.S.) authors, with specific emphasis on people descended from the UN-defined sub-regions of East, Southeast, South Asia, and West Asia (which includes Iran). The novels and plays have been sorted into their subcategories; the remaining titles represent nonfiction, along with story and poetry collections.