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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.
Yến Lê Espiritu is an American sociologist.She is the author of Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries.Her research focuses on immigration and refugee studies, Southeast Asian Studies, transnationalism, Asian American Studies, and US Militarism.
This is a list of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans in the U.S. Congress.. Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The term refers to a panethnic group that includes diverse populations with ancestral origins in East Asia, South Asia or Southeast Asia, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Asian American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Asian descent. Since the 1970s, Asian American literature has grown from an emerging category to an established tradition [ 1 ] with numerous works becoming bestsellers [ 2 ] and winning mainstream awards, including the Pulitzer Prize [ 3 ] and the ...
The Asian American Encyclopedia (6 vol., 1995) Oh, Seiwoong, ed.. Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature (2007) Okihiro, Gary Y. American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders (University of California Press, 2015). xiv, 499 pp. Jeffrey D. Schultz (2000). Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics: African Americans and Asian ...
Federal agencies will now be required to differentiate among Asian American and Pacific Islander groups when collecting data, according to an updated directive from the White House’s Office of ...
Kaya Press is an independent non-profit publisher of writers of the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora. Founded in 1994 by the postmodern Korean writer Soo Kyung Kim, [1] Kaya Press is housed in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
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