Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The year 2020 has been a battle for Asian Americans. A battle for their lives in a pandemic. A battle against racial bias and attacks. A battle for respect as essential workers and business owners. Most of all, it has always been a struggle to be seen and heard as Americans.
Civil rights groups argue minorities and others in hard-to-count communities would be missed if the counting ended in September instead of October.
84 percent of recent spelling bee winners came from Indian American families, but director Sujata Day says, “I wanted to depict an Indian family that isn’t out of the box.”
The announcement of the bill’s introduction comes on this day, 42 years ago, when President Jimmy Carter signed a Joint Resolution designating the annual celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Week. This week-long celebration was later extended to a month after President George H.W. Bush signed a bill passed by Congress in 1990.
Heemin Lee, assistant professor in the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy, says they do—and has the research to prove it.
How the 2020 census is trying to overcome Covid-19, digital divides, and Trump to get an accurate count.