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The 1980 U.S. Census counted 1,213 ethnic Chinese in the City of Detroit. Zia wrote that the figure was "surely an undercount" but that the Chinese population in the City of Detroit "was unquestionably small." [4] The presence of family-owned businesses in the Detroit Chinatown area had declined by the 1980s. Zia wrote that by that decade, the ...
Cities considered to have significant Chinese-American populations are large U.S. cities or municipalities with a critical mass of at least 1% of the total urban population; medium-sized cities with a critical mass of at least 1% of their total population; and small cities with a critical mass of at least 10% of the total population.
In 1872, the first Chinese person came to Detroit and further Chinese people established restaurants and businesses. The Immigration Act of 1965 had increased Asian settlement into Metro Detroit, with immigrants from South Asia, China, Korea, and the Philippines. Many of the immigrants who arrived after the act were doctors, engineers, nurses ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, as of July 2018, approximately 79.1% of those residing in the City of Detroit proper are African American. [2] Most but not all of the suburban cities are still predominantly white. In the 2000s, 115 of the 185 cities and townships in Metro Detroit were over 95% white.
All deemed sanctuary cities. These larger metropolitan areas are just a handful of 100s of communities, and even some states, that have identified themselves as sanctuary areas for migrants in the ...
Lee remained the only Chinese immigrant until 1869, when a group of about 250 immigrants (mostly men) arrived seeking factory work. [74] In January 1870, another group of Chinese immigrants came to the city, including some women. [75] By 1900, the immigrant population of St. Louis's Chinatown had settled at between 300 and 400. [76]
Curtis Chin grew up in 1980s Detroit around his family's Chinese restaurant, Chung's. In a new memoir, he explains how it taught him everything he knows.
John Y. R. Shen, a cherished member of Detroit’s Chinese American community who contributed to art, architecture and design in Michigan, died May 4. He was 88.