Asian Americans in the History of Education: An Historiographical Essay
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in History of Education Quarterly
- Vol. 41 (1), 58-71
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2001.tb00074.x
Abstract
Asian Americans have lived in the United States for over one-and-a-half centuries: Chinese and Asian Indians since the mid-nineteenth century, Japanese since the late nineteenth century, and Koreans and Filipinos since the first decade of the twentieth century (an earlier group of Filipinos had settled near New Orleans in the late eighteenth century). Because of exclusion laws that culminated with the 1924 Immigration Act, however, the Asian American population was relatively miniscule before the mid-twentieth century. As late as 1940, for example, Asian immigrants and their descendants constituted considerably less than 1 percent (0.0019) of the United States population. In contrast, in Hawai'i, which was then a territory and therefore excluded from United States population figures, 58 percent of the people in 1940 were of Asian descent.Keywords
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