Cambodian American

While they have not been treated the same way as African Americans and turned into slaves, they have been denied the right to own property and prosper in the past. The Chinese immigrants have helped to build the backbone of America at the time which was the railroad system, allowing for easier trade. The Chinese…

Invisible and Struggling Asian Americans are generally known for their diligent work ethics, their high levels of education and the high paying job that follows from their education. This stereotype is even supported with statistical data, Asian Americans holding a higher median household income, $66,000, compared to the general population’s $49,800 (Pew Research Center). With a rise in Asian immigrants and the Asian American populace as a whole and how they are projected to be the largest…

cultural identity of Asian Americans is affected, share a common thread in that each author posits a framework of polarized racial and cultural ideologies that lay the groundwork for evaluating the tensions and contradictions for the Asian American position. These opposing ideologies serve as ‘poles’ or axis that evince the struggle Asian Americans are situated against as part of the diaspora within clashing White American culture. This essay will frame the Asian American culture identity…

does so for no other reason other than that they are African American. Ryan violates Christine and molests…

Racism in the Modern- Day American society. Stated in your essay, you claim that Man is the only animal that organizes it’s wars. Man gathers it’s men and sheds the blood of the innocent. The U.S government invaded the country of Vietnam, located in Southeast Asia, in order to force upon their…

the restaurant and Anthony complains that the waitress in the restaurant, who was also black, ignored the two of them. Anthony states that this was likely due to the belief that black people do not tip, which is a stereotype formed of the African-American minority also believed by the people within that same minority. Due to this belief, Anthony engages in affirmative action to achieve equalitarian pluralism within the black community. He states that he would never hurt or rob a fellow black man…

realize the traces of racism embedded into the screenplay and filmic choices of the Academy Award winning picture. Asian Americans, who are perhaps the most underrepresented as well as misrepresented group in the film, are examples…

exemplified by the cases raised by African American, and Asian American groups. The success of such cases is contingent upon a suitable political climate. It has been argued that the Supreme Court makes rulings that it believes can be implemented. Unlike Congress which holds the ‘power of the purse’ or the executive branch which can issue executive orders to carry out its goals, the judiciary has no…

The television series Master of None, created by Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang, centers on a 30-year-old Indian American actor, Dev Shah, played by Aziz Ansari himself. The comedy of the show is gleaned from Dev’s experiences living in New York. Many plot lines of the show incorporate discussions of race, gender, and sexuality. For this project, we focus on the second episode of the series, “Parents.” This episode’s theme is the child-parent relationship in America, when the parents are immigrants.…

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) refers to Asian individuals as “having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam” (as cited by Hoeffel, E. M., Rastogi, S., Kim, M. O., & Shahid, H., 2012). From 2000 to 2010 the Asian population grew 43 percent, from 10.2 million to 14.7 million, which is four…