Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
I was getting my monthly haircut in Manhattan’s Chinatown a few weeks ago when my stylist, Nikki, told me she was scared. She’d recently gone next door to pick up lunch at a Sichuan restaurant and had seen an Asian man in his 30s whose head was completely bandaged up.
Since the 2000 count, participants have been able to check off more than one box when answering the race question on census forms. But breakdowns of the country’s racial and ethnic makeup often don’t reflect a multiracial population that has increased by 276% since the 2010 census. They focus instead on racial groups that are … Read more
The Asian population in the U.S. grew by 35.5 percent over the past 10 years.
New Census numbers showing a 43% increase of Asian New Yorkers in Brooklyn and a 29% jump in Queens fuel demands for more representation as the process for redrawing elected officials’ district lines heats up.
Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that became the authority on gathering data on racially motivated attacks related to the pandemic, received 9,081 incident reports between March 19, 2020, and this June. Of those, 4,548 occurred last year, and 4,533 this year. Since the coronavirus was first reported in China, people of Asian and Pacific … Read more
On balance, the city added more than 629,000 residents, from 8.175 million measured in 2010, but city planning officials said that a big part of the story was that far fewer residents left the city than had been projected by census officials. Additionally, an unprecedented effort by city officials and community groups to penetrate every … Read more