Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some scholars are working to create those archives. Jack Tschen, one of the panelists and director of Asian American studies at NYU, has worked on documenting Chinese-American history by doing field work in Chinese-American communities...
...complex cultural map...If we can understand America as not just what makes us Americans but what makes us black Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos...if we can focus on those incommensurable identities, making transparent our differences will bring about a celebration of differences," she said...
...students who attend the Stanford Middle School in the Los Altos neighborhood of Long Beach, Calif., 34% are Hispanic, 22% Asian, 23% Caucasian, 17% African American, 3% Filipino and 2% either Pacific Islander or Native American. More than 75% qualify for the free or reduced-cost lunch program, thus enabling Stanford to receive federal funding under Title I. Because the district allows parents to choose their children's schools, only about one-third of the students reside in the neighborhood; the others arrive on 16 buses. When Stanford's rainbow coalition gets off those buses, it is a vision...
Olson has 720 students who reflect the changing face of Minneapolis: a third of them are "European American," a third of them are African American and almost a third are Asian American--mostly Hmong from Southeast Asia. With 78% of the students eligible for free or reduced-cost lunch, Olson is one of the city's poorer middle schools, but in last year's state reading tests, Olson came in third among the seven middle schools...
...Trouble started early on Wall Street when traders grew worried about a 6 percent decline in Hong Kong's Hang Seng index Monday. The Asian economic crisis, which started the Hong Kong avalanche, spread to Latin America and continued to put severe pressure on European and American markets...