Asian Americans
Subtitle: from racial category to multiple identities
By: Juanita Tamayo Lott.
Series: Critical perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans series
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Asian Americans -- Race identity; Asian Americans -- Statistics; United States -- Race relations
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-109) and index