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South Asians had been present in colonial America since at least 1635 with the recording of an East Indian man named "Tony" in the Colony of Virginia.They were brought over as indentured servants and sometimes slaves who eventually assimilated into the dominant white and black American populations.
The Chicago metropolitan area has an ethnic Chinese population. While historically small in comparison to populations on the coasts, the community is rapidly expanding. As of 2023, there are 78,547 Chinese Americans who live in Chicago, comprising 2.9% of the city's population, along with over 150,000 Chinese in the greater Chicago area - making Chicago's Chinese community the 8th largest ...
Asian American history is the history of ethnic and racial groups in the United States who are of Asian descent. The term " Asian American " was an idea invented in the 1960s to bring together Chinese , Japanese , and Filipino Americans for strategic political purposes.
Slavery and South Asian History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Jeff Eden (2018), Slavery and Empire in Central Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press. Scott C. Levi (2002), "Hindus Beyond the Hindu Kush: Indians in the Central Asian Slave Trade", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 12:3, pp. 277-288. Fischer-Tiné, Harald (June ...
After slavery was abolished in the United States, Chinese laborers were imported to the South as cheap labor to replace freed Blacks on the plantations.Many of the early Chinese laborers came from sugar plantations in Cuba and after the transcontinental railroad was completed, California also contributed to the labor supply.
The Hip Yee and Kwong Duck Tongs were both reported to have had a morally decent and good organization, with the Hip Yee tong starting out to protect slave-girls from criminal activities (although the Hip Yee highbinders were said to have started the organized slave-girl importation in 1852 as well), and the Kwong Duck tong's creation was ...
A 1993 article called "Racial Change to the Suburbs" quoted Japanese Americans as being experts on the Asian Americans moving to the suburbs. Jacalyn D. Harden, author of Double Cross: Japanese Americans in Black and White Chicago, wrote that it was "seen by many" as "privileging" the "Japanese Americans over other Asian groups." [11]
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