Key Facts
What are the six origin groups that make up 85% of all Asian Americans?
Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese.
It tends to be assigned. Group membership into this is assigned by others, particularly by members of the dominant group.
Race.
It tends to be asserted. Group membership into this is chosen by members of the same group.
Ethnicity.
A division into two groups or classes that are considered diametrically opposite.
Binary.
The process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.
Assimilation.
Name three states with the largest populations of Asian Americans.
California, New York, Texas, New Jersey, and Washington.
Asian Americans are a racial group composed of a variety of ethnic groups. Name three of these ethnic groups.
Any Asian homeland.
It is a population count that compiles data on race/ethnicity to use in planning and funding government programs that provide funds or services for specific groups.
The Census.
All the characteristics of a living thing, especially the qualities that you can see, for example the color of the hair and eyes, the weight, etc.
Phenotype.
Is a process through which a person or group from one culture comes to adopt the practices and values of another culture, while still retaining their own distinct culture.
Acculturation.
Asian Americans are projected to be the nation’s?
The largest immigrant group by the middle of the century (2055).
Name three ethnic groups that fall under Pacific Islander.
Hawaiian, Chamorro, Guamanian, and Samoan.
It is a social construct (not biologically based) that in the United States has been used to oppress people of color.
Race.
A concept or perception of something based on the collective views developed and maintained within a society or social group; a social phenomenon or convention originating within and cultivated by society or a particular social group, as opposed to existing inherently or naturally. An idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society
Social construct.
The grouping together, and collective labeling, of various separate ethnicities.
Panethnicity.
Mongolian and Burmese Americans rank the lowest in what metric?
Economic indicators.
Name three human phenotypic differences.
The color of the hair (and texture), eyes, and skin of a person. The height and weight of a person.
This term was used in the U.S. census to refer to Asian Indians, regardless of religion.
Hindu.
One model of assimilation in the U.S.
Anglo-Conformity.
In the U.S. it arranges people based on “fixed phenotypic differences” not only to categorize them but also to place them in a hierarchical order of privilege and power.
Race.
The modern wave of immigration from Asian to the U.S. arrived after landmark legislation passed on what year?
1965.
It is an ideology about human differences that spread to other areas of the world. It became a strategy for dividing, ranking, and controlling colonized people used by colonial powers everywhere.
Race.
How many biological races are there?
One.
It is an ideology. A form of social organization. It is a limiting classification and often categorizes minoritized groups in the U.S. as either recipients of racism or free from racism.
The Black and White racial binary.
Refers to a typically self-proclaimed sense of group membership based on a presumed (not necessarily actual) common ancestry, history, and a way of life.
Ethnicity.