The Grace Lee Project
2005
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- 5. Breaking Through May 12, 2020
- Asian Americans navigate their growing influence at the turn of the millennium.
- 4. Generation Rising May 12, 2020
- Asian Americans fight for equality in the fields, on campuses and in the culture.
- 3. Good Americans May 12, 2020
- Bold ambition leads Asian Americans to aspire to national political office.
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants). [3]
Apr 29, 2021 · Chinese Americans are the largest Asian origin group in the U.S., making up 24% of the Asian population, or 5.4 million people. The next two largest origin groups are Indian Americans, who account for 21% of the total (4.6 million people), and Filipinos, who account for 19% (or 4.2 million people).
Proportion of Asian Americans in each county of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico as of the 2020 United States Census. The demographics of Asian Americans describe a heterogeneous group of people in the United States who trace their ancestry to one or more Asian countries. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Manilamen began to reside in ...
May 1, 2022 · An estimated 22 million Asian Americans live in the US, making up nearly 7% of the total population, US Census data shows. Those who self-identify as Chinese, Indian or Filipino ancestry make...
May 8, 2023 · About half (51%) of Asian adults say they use American on its own (10%), together with their ethnicity (25%) or together with “Asian” as Asian American (16%) when describing their identity, highlighting their links to the U.S.
Sep 25, 2021 · A surge of violence and harassment targeting Asian Americans has shown that America’s long history of treating people of Asian descent as foreigners whose belonging is contingent — on labor, on...
Apr 29, 2021 · Asian Americans are the fastest-growing major racial or ethnic group in the United States. More than 22 million Asians live in the U.S., and almost all trace their roots to specific countries or populations from East and Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.
Apr 25, 2023 · There are 23.5 million Asian Americans living in the US, making up 7.1% of the US population. Among them, 3.8 million identify as Asian in combination with another race.
Aug 21, 2021 · The number of people who identify as Asian in the United States nearly tripled in the past three decades, and Asians are now the fastest-growing of the nation’s four largest racial and ethnic...
Mar 22, 2022 · Asian immigrants have come to American shores since the mid-1800s, playing a significant role in U.S. history, but one that’s rife with inequity and exclusion. See a timeline of key events.
