Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Updated every two years, the fact sheets provide policymakers, advocates, researchers, journalists, campaigns, and community organizations with essential data on the nation’s fastest-growing racial demographic and voter bloc.
AAARI intends the investment to bolster its partnerships with community-based organizations, educators, and researchers across New York.
AAPI voters are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. electorate, and campaigns and policymakers repeatedly fail to reach Chinese American voters by underestimating the size and diversity of the bloc.
Lulu Song, Brooklyn College associate professor of psychology studies what happens when schools treat a child’s home language as a problem to be solved rather than an asset to be built on. Her work shows that bilingual children are often far more capable than English-only assessments reveal — and that losing a home language early … Read more
Eight in ten AAPI adults value the American dream. Less than half are proud or excited about the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States.
The city’s Chinese population reached 397,000 in 2023, a 5% increase from 2013, while the Dominican population declined 6% to 390,000 over the same period, according to The Newest New Yorkers report. The two groups each make up 12.8% and 12.6% of the city’s 3.1 million immigrant population.