Asian American Issues : A Reference Handbook

This balanced and comprehensive handbook overviews the Asian American community and its diversity, strengths, issues, and successes from the 1800s to the present. The Asian American population is now one of the fastest growing populations in the United States.

Today's Asian American population-currently more than 15 million, or about 5 percent of the total population-had only reached 1 million individuals in 1965.

While Asian Americans are generally regarded as having achieved great success, this diverse community still continues to face significant issues in education, economic well-being, and political power. This book presents a balance of historical, sociological, cultural, and biographical perspectives that illuminate the diversity within the Asian American experience and the challenges facing the community.

Covering the Asian American experience from the mid-1800s to the present, this handbook presents historical background, addresses specific problems and controversies, contains biographies of pioneering and prominent Asian Americans, and provides resources for education reform that are inclusive of the Asian American experience. * Presents documents and images related to the internment of Japanese Americans, including excerpts from key court cases such as Korematsu v.

United States * Provides an annotated chronology of events shaping Asian American history from the late 1700s to the present* Includes visual demographic data tables, maps of the population centers for Asian Americans, and illustrative photographs* Contains a bibliography of print and electronic resources that expand upon the Asian American experience from historical, sociological, cultural, and biographic perspectives * Provides a directory of organizations serving the Asian American population