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Asian Americans Reference library
Encyclopedia of Social Work (20 ed.)
[This entry contains seven subentries: Overview; Practice Interventions; Chinese; Japanese, Koreans; South Asians; Southeast Asians.]
Asian Americans Reference library
J. V. Gatewood
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
With a population of 12.5 million as of 2002, Asian Americans represent one of the fastest-growing demographics in the United States. Diversity has been a defining feature of the Asian ...
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Henry Yu
The Oxford Companion to United States History
American economic, military, and missionary activities profoundly affected the pattern of Asian and Pacific islanders' emigration to the United States. U.S. imperial expansion in the ...
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Asian Americans in Congress Reference library
The Oxford Guide to the United States Government
Before 1965, American immigration laws restricted Asians from coming to the United States. Asian-American communities existed in the larger
Asians Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619–1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass
The first Asians to arrive in the United States in significant numbers were Chinese laborers attracted to the country after
California
It is estimated that approximately 300,000 Native Americans inhabited the area now know as California before Spanish explorers arrived in search of wealth. On September 28, 1542, an expedition led ...
Chinatowns
Chinatowns—immigrant enclaves mingling residential, commercial, cultural, and religious functions and often situated near central commercial and government districts—emerged centuries ago with ...
Chinese Exclusion Cases
A series of disputes settled by the Supreme Court during the 1880s and 1890s: Chew Heong v. United States, 112 U.S. 536 (1884), argued 30 Oct. 1884, decided 8 Dec. 1884 by vote of 7 to 2, Harlan for ...
Chinese Overseas
Migration both within and out of China since the eighteenth century has been channeled through a variety of common institutions that include occupational and merchant guilds (huiguan), mutual aid ...
Collis P. Huntington
(1821–1900), railroad entrepreneur.Born in Connecticut, Collis P. Huntington, after an early business career in New York City, moved to Sacramento, California, during the 1849 Gold Rush and started a ...
equality
The state of being equal. In sociology, equality is viewed mainly in a social context and the lack of equality is regarded as being profoundly shaped by social structures.
Fifteenth Amendment
(1870).This amendment to the U.S. Constitution declares that the right to vote shall not be denied or restricted by the federal or state governments on account of race. The ...
folk art
The art, handicrafts, and decorative ornament produced by people who have had no formal art training but have an established tradition of styles and craftsmanship. A country or region may have a ...
immigrant
A person who migrates to and settles in a country other than that of birthplace and upbringing. Immigrants often differ culturally and sometimes in health-related behavior from persons born and ...
Immigrant Labor
At least since the 1840s, when Irish American workers replaced the native-born “factory girls” of Lowell, Massachusetts, immigrants have loomed large in the American working classes. This was ...
immigration legislation
(New Zealand)New Zealand had an estimated population of around 1400,000 Maori people, and 2,000 Whites, in 1839. Immigration began in the 1840s as companies and settlers sought to make the country a ...
Incarceration of Japanese Americans.
The forced removal from the West Coast in the Spring and Summer of 1942 of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans, more than two-thirds of them native-born U.S. citizens, and their subsequent ...
Korematsu v. United States
• 323 U.S. 214 (1944)• Vote: 6–3• For the Court: Black• Concurring: Frankfurter• Dissenting: Roberts, Murphy, and Jackson• 323 U.S. 214 (1944)• Vote: 6–3• For the Court: Black[...]
Los Angeles
For many years the city played second fiddle to its northern rival San Francisco, although it was a good legitimate theatre town with such people as Oliver Morosco running theatres ...
nativism
In sociological contexts, this term is used most commonly to refer to the negative, ethnocentric responses of native-born populations towards immigrants. The classic study of such responses is John ...
