From the OC Register:
In 1970, Asians made up only 1 percent of the U.S. population, but by 2011, they accounted for 5 percent. Not only is the Asian population the fastest-growing racial group in the country today, but the number of Asian immigrants surpassed the number of Latino immigrants last year. Asian Americans are often associated with the values of hard work, discipline and success. But it hasn’t always been this way. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Anglo-Americans viewed Asians as undesirable and unassimilable immigrants, full of “filth and disease.” They were denied the rights to naturalize and intermarry and were segregated in crowded ethnic enclaves… Jennifer Lee is a sociology professor at UC Irvine. She earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University. Her research interests are immigration, race/ethnicity, social inequality and Asian American studies.

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