Asian Americans

Twenty years ago, Sandra Day O'Connor's deleted draft opinion rejected favoring white applicants over Asian Americans. Why did Clarence Thomas adopt it?

The 1982 attack against Vincent Chin redefined hate crimes and energized a push for today’s stronger legal protections.

What the differences between Hiram Fong and Nikki Haley tell us about changes to the GOP.

The idea of proportionality has roots in midcentury Japanese American advocacy.

My Chinese-immigrant parents dreamed big for me, their American-born daughter whom they raised in the suburbs east of San Francisco.

40 years after Vincent Chin’s murder, the struggle against anti-Asian hate continues.

Pachappa Camp, the first Korean-organized immigrant settlement in the United States, was established through the efforts of Ahn Chang Ho.

The line from America’s earliest empire in the Philippines to Japan, Korea, Vietnam—and anti-Asian violence at home—is straight, clear, and written in blood.

Lawrence Matsuda talks about his family history, his experiences of discrimination, and his work in bilingual and Asian American representation in education.

Organizing and advocacy are key when confronting bigotry.

If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.

Recognizing that is crucial to ending the violence and the hate driving it.

It’s difficult to describe anti-Asian racism when society lacks a coherent historical account of what it actually looks like.

Many of us are unaware of the special circumstances that eased our entry into American life—and of the bonds we share with other nonwhite groups.

Scapegoating immigrant groups in times of disease outbreak has a long history.

Discussion of the Hart-Cellar Act that was passed 50 years ago.

Asian sailors came to the west coast of America in 1587. Within a century they were settled in colonies from Mexico to Peru.

The conservative backlash to the civil-rights era began immediately — and now it’s nearly complete.

And historians aren't exactly helping in the Harvard case currently before the Supreme Court.

How new arrivals remade the east San Gabriel Valley — and assimilated in it.