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  1. History of Asian Immigration in the U.S.


  2. Asian Americans
    1. Model minority
    2. Asian subpopulation numbers in the U.S.

  3. Resource Shares of Asian Americans
    1. Impoverishment of Asian Americans
    2. Income of Asian Americans
    3. Occupational distribution of Asian Americans
    4. Educational attainment of Asian Americans
    5. Housing of Asian Americans
    6. Life span of Asian Americans

  4. The Dynamics of Discrimination against Asian Americans
    1. Identifiability of Asian Americans
      1. Biological distinctiveness
      2. Perceptions of Asians as recent immigrants
      3. Anti-Asian climate in U.S.
    2. Negative beliefs about Asian Americans
      1. Early stereotypes
      2. The "yellow peril" stereotype
      3. The "model-minority" stereotype
      4. The perception of Asian "foreignness"
    3. Institutionalized discrimination against Asian Americans
      1. Legal discrimination
        1. Chinese immigration
        2. Japanese immigration
        3. Filipino and Korean immigration
        4. The internment of Japanese Americans
      2. Economic discrimination
      3. Political discrimination
        1. Apportionment policies
        2. Bilingual election materials
        3. Political party snobbery
    4. Educational discrimination
      1. Brown University
      2. Berkeley
      3. Harvard
    5. Housing discrimination

  5. Stratification of Asian Americans


  6. Responding to Discrimination
    1. The lack of violent responses
    2. The use of the legal system
    3. The consequences of:
      1. The model-minority stereotype
      2. The lack of effective political organization

  7. The Precarious Situation for Asian Americans


  8. Pacific Islanders: A Short Exploratory Note
    1. Resource Shares of Pacific Islanders
    2. Identifiability of Pacific Islanders
    3. Negative Beliefs about Pacific Islanders
    4. Institutionalized Discrimination against Pacific Islanders
    5. Stratification of Pacific Islanders

  9. Summary


  10. Points of debate





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