Asian immigration and American race‐relations: From exclusion to acceptance?

Lee, Sharon M.

doi:10.1080/01419870.1989.9993640

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“…They are more likely to hold high-paying jobs and are less likely to be unemployed than the average American. Because of these achievements, Asian Americans are often portrayed as the "model minority"-a paragon of economic success and integration into the American mainstream (Bell 1985;Kim and Hurh 1984;Lee 1989). 3 …”

Section: Asian Americansmentioning

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Asian Americans for equality: A case study of strategies for expanding immigrant homeownership

Listokin¹,

Listokin

2001

Housing Policy Debate

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At a time when the overall homeownership rate in the United States is at a historic high, many groups still face severe hurdles in realizing the American dream. The public, private, and nonprofit sectors are working to address these barriers, and this article examines one nonprofit's activities. Asian Americans for Equality (AAFE) is a civil rights and housing organization providing homeownership and other services to Asian Americans, a group that often faces language, cultural, credit, and financial difficulties in achieving homeownership. AAFE addresses these challenges by providing aggressive outreach through housing fairs and neighborhood publications; it offers homeownership education and counseling in a variety of languages and settings, secures multiple housing subsidies and develops affordable housing, and educates lenders on the employment and credit practices of the Asian community. AAFE thus helps tailor the complex web of activities required to expand homeownership to traditionally underserved-especially immigrant-populations.

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Section: Asian Americansmentioning

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Asian Americans for equality: A case study of strategies for expanding immigrant homeownership

Listokin¹,

Listokin

2001

Housing Policy Debate

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“…The heterogeneity of the Asian population, the economic distress of South east Asian refugees, and the existence of unskilled workers employed in the low end of the split labor market (Poston 1988, Hein 1993, Lee 1989). These authors stress that there are dangers in viewing all Asians as successful, because the extreme poverty of Southeast Asians and the pov erty of low skilled members of other groups will then not receive the public policy interventions that are needed.…”

Section: Asiansmentioning

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Immigration and Ethnic and Racial Inequality in the United States

1995

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This review examines research about current levels and recent changes in ethnic and racial stratification in the United States. Research about ethnic inequality emphasizes that economic stagnation and restructuring are trou bling impediments to progress toward equality, and it shows evidence that employers may still use racial and ethnic queues in hiring. A number of issues arise with respect to the incorporation of the new waves of immigrants who have arrived since immigration law reform in 1965. We discuss patterns of adaptation of new immigrants, including available evidence on the ethnic enclave economy and substitution in the labor market of immigrants for native minorities. We summarize new theories and hypotheses about the fate of the children of recent immigrants, and we point to topics in this area needing further research.

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“…In 1854 the Supreme Court of California ruled that Chinese were barred from testifying against whites, reasoning that since the Indians were not allowed to testify against whites and since the Chinese were of the same race as Indians, “Indians having many centuries ago come from China, the law which applied to the Indians should also apply to the Chinese” (Coolidge 1909: Zo 1978: Omi and Winant 1994: Gossett 1997). This decision in People v. Hall (1854) crystallized the “legal categorization of Chinese as non‐white” (Lee 1989: 376). As Omi and Winant (1994) contend “throughout the 19th century, many state and federal legal arrangements recognized only three racial categories: ‘white,’‘Negro,’ and ‘Indian’ ” (p. 82).…”

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“Prelude to Imperialism”¹: Whiteness and Chinese Exclusion in the Reimagining of the United States

Murphy¹

2005

J Historical Sociology

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The debates around Chinese exclusion were part of a racial reimagining of the United States after the Civil War. These debates show how the Exclusion Acts were the "prelude to imperialism" overseas. By employing competing racisms toward Chinese migrants, disparate groups of whites created contradictory stereotypes of the Chinese, such as the "coolie" and "celestial." Focusing on working-class whites' messy and violent racism toward the Chinese has contributed to ignoring more paternalistic "civilized" racism of missionaries, reformers, politicians, and capitalists that led to more lasting stereotypes of Chinese, such as the "model minority." This study analyzes how these racisms simultaneously contributed to the transformation of the racial state and the extension of imperialist policies, while they disciplined workers of all races, Chinese immigrants, Filipinos, and whites.

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Asian immigration and American race‐relations: From exclusion to acceptance?

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

Asian Americans for equality: A case study of strategies for expanding immigrant homeownership

Asian Americans for equality: A case study of strategies for expanding immigrant homeownership

Immigration and Ethnic and Racial Inequality in the United States

“Prelude to Imperialism”¹: Whiteness and Chinese Exclusion in the Reimagining of the United States

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Asian immigration and American race‐relations: From exclusion to acceptance?

Cited by 16 publications

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Asian Americans for equality: A case study of strategies for expanding immigrant homeownership

Asian Americans for equality: A case study of strategies for expanding immigrant homeownership

Immigration and Ethnic and Racial Inequality in the United States

“Prelude to Imperialism”1: Whiteness and Chinese Exclusion in the Reimagining of the United States

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