Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities

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Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities

Alta Mira Press
April 1998
116 pages
Cloth: 2 0-7619-9172-7 / 978-0-7619-9172-4 
Paper: 2 0-7619-9173-5 / 978-0-7619-9173-1 

Juanita Tamayo Lott

Does race matter? Having witnessed the civil rights movement and changes in immigration laws, we continue to ask ourselves this complex question. In the United States, racial status and identity has historically been defined by the White majority. Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple Identities shows that race continues to be a major organizing principle in the US.  Using census data on “Blacks,” “White Ethnics,” and “Nonblack Minorities,” Lott deconstructs widely accepted majority/minority classifications to reveal the multiplicity of identities surrounding each group.

Table of Contents

  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgment
  • Dedication
  • What Are You
  • Chapter One Race: A Major Organizing Principle
  • Chapter Two Directive 15 Origins
  • Chapter Three Continuing Utility of Directive 15
  • Chapter Four Asian Americans: A Racial Category
  • Chapter Five Asian Americans: A Multiplicity of Identities
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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