African Chinese Population

The second layer: education. According to the data from Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, test scores of Black and Latino students continue to lag behind. Though, Asians perform pretty well in both reading and math. 78% of the Asians meet reading standards and 94% of Asians meet math standards. (Citizens’ Committee for Children, 2010)

The Chinese immigrant is one of the largest group in the United States. Looking back the history of U.S., most people believe that the first Chinese immigrants came to California during the Gold Rush period. Also, the Chinese community is one of the largest and oldest ethnic group of Asian Americans. Some researchers consider the history of ethnic Chinese in Southern California relates to three periods. In my opinion, I would like to say that there are four major waves which the first wave begins in the 19th century, the second wave occurs in the 1940s to 1980s, the third wave happens during the 1980s, and the last wave arises in a recent decade year.

Immigrants that were from China lived in towns called ghettos. Sometimes they even lived in neighborhoods with white americans and immigrants from Europe. Also near big cities there were restrictive covenants.

As per the book, the Chinese started working on a low wages replacing the jobs for other population. As result Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, effectively barring Chinese immigration. This reduced the Chinese population. Document 17 -1 'Pun Chi Appeals to congress in Behalf of Chinese Immigrants In California' explains the poor condition

The racial segregation between Worcester Metropolitan area and the Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metropolitan area is very similar. For both of the area, it shows that White-Black, White-Hispanic, White-Asian, Black-Asian, and Hispanic-Asian have a moderate level of segregation. Black-Hispanic have a low moderate level of segregation in both of the areas. The segregation of poverty and of affluence is greater in the Worcester Metropolitan area than it is in the Albany-Schenectady-troy, NY Metropolitan area.

From Chinatown to Monterey Park, Asian Americans across the boundaries of Los Angeles are flourishing from bustling inner cities to middle class suburbia. The suburban life style was originally created by white Americans for white Americans however in today’s suburban cities and towns there seems to be a substantial group of Asians and Asian Americans thriving in these once predominately white areas(Li 1993, 318). The development of Asians and Asian Americans in the suburbs occurred through the following three ways, first is the development of Chinatown and how it became the Mecca for immigrants and the second is Asian American assimilation into American society. The last reason is the gentrification of towns such as Chinatown, and Little Tokyo.

Adding to the inequalities and misfortunes within communities of color, gentrification has taken the Bay Area by a storm. Gentrification is the purchasing of deteriorated urban homes and areas, then the renovation by higher-end and middle class communities. An abundance of high-end people rush into the Bay Area and purchase up the real estate. Incoming middle and higher class take the Bay Area real estate and revitalise it into up-and-coming neighborhoods, then increase rent prices. Therefore, reducing affordable housing for communities of color. Therefore, this revitalization is changing the character of communities because the Bay Area may appear nicer, the communities of color are unable to afford the standard of living. Communities of

In the mid-1920s, there was an even bigger increase in Irish immigrants to Chicago. Due to this increase in population, they moved up financially than other Europeans ethnicities. Instead of residing in lower-class areas, they began to disperse outwards. The areas where the Irish decided to move to were middle-class and upper-middle-class neighborhoods. Not many other ethnicities lived in these areas because they were not as financially secure as the Irish had become due to all the work they had received over the years. The neighborhoods the Irish lived in now were mainly in the Near North Side. Areas like, Lincoln Park, Lake View, and Uptown Areas (Cutler, 1973, 49-54).

Around the mid 1800’s we started to see the movement of the Chinese immigrants in the pacific-coast of the united states, more specifically in California. They laid railroad tracks in the west coast and also serviced in mining during the California gold rush. You start to see the success of the Chinese immigrants which encouraged the poor Chinese to come to America. The Chinese started to spread and settle in Oregon as well as in Washington in the 1860’s providing labor for the state’s mines and salmon canneries and also setting up the Northern Pacific Railroad which connected Lake Superior to Tacoma, Washington and also helped build the Seattle to Newcastle railroad.(cite #2) These immigrants were very industrious, willing to work long hours

culture to an area. Within a few years, the city grew to 3,000 residents the More people to an area

He explained how in 1980 twenty-five percent of the residents in Chinatown lived below the poverty level. Takaki then compares this percentage to the percentage of the entire city’s population, which was only seventeen percent. This showed that Asian Americans had a higher poverty rate than the entire city. Takaki then went on to talk about how most immigrants coming into Chinatown with a language barrier could not leave the confined area. Thus, they were left to obtain a low paying job as a janitor, cook, or dishwasher. Takaki gave an example of a Chinese immigrant who had once been a painter in Hong Kong but with no license and education, he had to resort to other

Immigration through many decades has made Southern California the melting pot of culture that it is today. To use Los Angeles as an example, which has a population of just over ten million the mix of races in that area shows us that immigration has been a large part of culture change. Forty eight percent of Los Angeles 's population are Chicano, which would be due to the fact that it use to be Mexico, as well as the large movement north of Mexicans today. Another minority group that is a fairly large percent in Los Angeles is Asian. Fifteen percent of the population is Asian, which would be due to the large movement of Asians to the U.S after the Vietnam war. The largest group in the area of Los Angeles is still white. Nearly eighty percent say that they are part white. The white population in Los Angeles is mainly because of the gold rush, which brought over many Americans to the area.

According to the 2010 census, approximately seventy percent of the United states consisted of Caucasians. Although Caucasians are the most dominant people in the United States of America, ethnic enclaves especially those in overpopulated cities such as Manhattan, have clearly proved that even the minorities have a representation. For a historian, Chinatown would be a depiction of how far the nation has come. Just about a century ago, due to prejudice against Asians, the nation allowed the congress to approve the practice of an unfair quota system. America was considerably a safe haven, a sanctimony, or perhaps a better chance at life for many immigrants, these unfair quotas systems resulted in a national day dedicated to mourning. A history

In 1850, Chinese immigrants in San Francisco established a Chinatown, others soon followed. Boston’s Chinatown was established by 1875. Chinatown was then, as it still is now, a place of support and security where one could find a bed, job, and social services; a place of cultural familiarity where one could share common food, language, and customs. Excluded from the larger society, Chinatown was home.

Based on Hong Kong’s permanent population, 95% of it is Chinese. So even though much