Lecture 24. Asian Americans

I.                   Demog:3rd largest minor; @ 9.9 mil 2000;4% US pop.;1990, 3%; 1980, 1.5% 

A.     Foreign born: 63% APA’s > Hispanics (36% for born) vs. 8% of U.S.

II.                Model Minority?  Are cultural factors the primary reason for success?

A.     media image:’66, US News, NY Times compare blacks to Chinese model

B.     bimodal distribution: APAs concentrate at extremes—high/low SES

C.     Geo: metro areas hi cost liv states:  3/5 in 3 states: NY, CA, Hawaii

                                                               i.      num wage earners:  >Asian households; also unpaid family

D.    Structural variables explaining higher education and status: 

                                                               i.      pre-immigration: training or commercial exper, access to capital

                                                             ii.      Fam borrowing:  provide $ for educ pursuits or business ventures

                                                            iii.      Rotate credit assoc:+some access large-scale venture capital firms

                                                           iv.      Entrepreneurialism (self-employ) creates launching pad

                                                             v.      Struc barrier aid self-emp:  lang barrier, no transfer credent/deg

1.Why no black business?:slaves no have own plots,deny cult

 

III.             OCCUP/INDUS CONCENTRATE;  UNDERREP IN MANAGEMENT:

A.     Predom: 1982, 3X >likely be scientist/engineer than % in pop predict

B.     Low ratio Manag/Prof: APA managers/officials < 1/2 rep in prof jobs

C.     Discrim:  Times  show col-ed APA in manage earn 38% < white col grads

D.    Old boy networks:  put at disadvantage (65).

E.     Stereotype disinterest in manag: bosses likely ignore good candidates

IV.  IMMIGRATION

A.     RESTRICTION

1.  Gentleman’s agreement 1907

2.  1924 Nat Origins Act: Japanese only from West Hem allow immigrate

3.      Japanese barred law practice: South Calif grads require citizenship

4.      Only Nazi Germany has U.S. racial restriction:  on naturalization

B.     INDIAN’S RACIAL STATUS:

1.  U.S. v. Balsara (1910): rule high-caste Hindus are whites; elig citizen

2.  Thind (1923): rule nonwhite; no citizen subject Alien Land Law 1913

C. FILIPINO IMMIGRATION:

1.  Tydings-McDuffie (1934): reclassify Filipinos aliens, restrict entry

V. HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE GLASS CEILING

F.      < returns for > yrs ed; APAs w/ col deg earn $36844 vs. $41094 whites; Asians earn >whites because choose >paying occup that require > educ.

G.    Employer’s reasons exclude manag:leadership,social skills, non-academ

H.    Ed attainment:  38.2% APA’s bachelor’s or >; vs. 24% of whites, 35% of Arab Americans, 13% of blacks, 9.3% of Hispanics. 

I.       < Admission rates: med school acceptance below whites

                                                              i.      1 reason Overrep:math,science,engineer,1/5 med stud v 4% pop

J.      Prob linguistic racism:  discrim against persons not speak English well. 

K.    Glass Ceiling:  fac get < returns; 1996 < 1% execs at 4 yr cols; < tenure

VI.MID-MAN MINOR: Small ghetto bus cause block prof w-collar due lang/citizenship

L.     Mid-manage: glass ceiling cause be between white exec & < lev minor; racial edge or shock absorber—serve termination notices to employees