Good Morning, Vietnam!: An Evolving Asian America
Good Night, Japanese!: An Evolving Asian America
The Asian Wave of Immigration In 1997, 24% of foreign-born residents (6.1 million) were from Asia In 1997, 6 of every 10 Asian Americans were foreign-born
The Big Picture From Census 2000
Growth of Asian Americans
Asian Americans by Nationality-Census 2000
South Asian Americans
Southeast Asian Americans
East Asian Americans
Fastest Growing Asian Groups 1990 to 2000
Where We Live: Cities
Where Asian Americans Live
The West Coast Thing
Asian Boom: Growth Since 1990
Asians In South Dakota!
1999 Median Income
Poor Asian Americans [1990 Census Data]
The Educated Asian In 2000, 1 of 7 AAs had an advanced degree One of every five PhDs in engineering awarded in 1998 went to an Asian American Asian Americans had the highest graduation rate— 65%--at Division I schools in 1997 AA women had the highest graduation rate for completing a bachelor’s program in six years: 68% AA men had the highest rate for all men: 62% The most popular bachelor level fields among AAs in 1997 were business, life sciences and engineering In Fall 1998, nearly two-thirds of all International students came from Asia
Assimilation/Ethnic ID Grid [by Harry Kitano/Roger Daniels] Cell A Cell C Cell D Cell B Ethnic Identity Assimilation low high low
The New Face of America: Hispanic By 2005, Hispanic Americans will become the largest ethnic minority, 13% of the U.S. population By 2050, one of every three Americans will be Hispanic
Where Did Chinese Americans Settle? (by Wayne Fong, 2001) Current DemograpicsIdentityCommunities of Higher Concentration 1 st /2 nd GenerationChinese American, Asian American Bay Area/N. CA, S. CA, PNW, NY, TX 2 nd /3 rd GenerationAsian AmericanAll major cities CantoneseChinese-DiasporaAll major cities in West, Midwest, NY, TX Taiwanese Bay Area, S. CA, East Coast cities MandarinChineseEast Coast, S. CA universities, major technology/medical centers Mainland-PRCChinese-PRCUniversity cities; Bay Area, East Coast SE AsiansSingaporeans, Malaysians, Overseas Chinese Major metropolitan cities
Most Highly Asian-populated States