Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities

Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities
ISBN-10
0761991735
ISBN-13
9780761991731
Series
Asian Americans
Category
Social Science
Pages
124
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Rowman Altamira
Author
Juanita Tamayo Lott

Description

Does race still matter? In the United States, legal categories of race continue to multiply. Have these official definitions, once constructed by a white majority for exclusionary and oppressive ends, successfully transformed into tools for enforcing civil rights? After a historical background, Lott gives a detailed explanation of the origins and implications of Directive 15 - a critical juncture in the recent legal development of census and national data categories. She then turns to the complexities of Asian American identities, deconstructing widely accepted minority/majority classifications, and historicizing the changing definitions of those labels.

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