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By the 1830s, East Asian and Southeast Asian groups had begun immigrating to Hawaii, where American capitalists and missionaries had established plantations and settlements. Originating primarily from China, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, these early migrants were predominantly contract workers who labored on plantations. [7]
The Asian American movement (a term coined by the Japanese American Yuji Ichioka and the Chinese American Emma Gee) gathered all those groups into a coalition, recognizing that they shared common problems with racial discrimination and common opposition to American imperialism, particularly in Asia.
About one-half of the Asian American population lived in the West, with California having the most total Asian Americans of any state, at 4.2 million. [33] As a proportion of the total population, Hawaii is the only state with an Asian American majority population, at 58 percent; [ 33 ] [ note 1 ] Honolulu County had the highest percentage of ...
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.
Asian-American-related controversies (4 C, 52 P) Pages in category "Asian diaspora in the United States" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
There are currently 47,406 Korean Americans residing in South Korea, up from 35,501 in 2010, according to data from the Ministry of Justice. They are driving the record high number of diaspora ...
Anti-Asian racism in the United States, China-Taiwan dispute, Asian American activism, Marxism Leninism, Asian anti-imperialism, Asian anti-war movement, Chinese anti-Americanism, Asian American New Left, Chinese nationalism, Chinatown politics Croatian Americans: Croatian diaspora: Croatia: Croatian nationalism: Croatian World Congress
Nothing is off-limits to discuss, and that temerity becomes useful—and contagious—for then interviewing Asian American luminaries like Cathy Park Hong, Ke Huy Quan, and Margaret Cho in what ...