Title: Asian Americans
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Asian Americans, Social life and customs, Statistics, Race identity, Race relations, Ethnic relations, United states, race relations, Américains d'origine asiatique, Identité ethnique, Statistiques, Relations raciales, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Ethnic Studies, Asian American Studies, Immigranten, Aziaten, Culturele identiteit
Places: United States
LC classification: E184.O6 L68 1998