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	Asian American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asian Americans are concentrated in the largest U.S. cities, with 40% of all Asian Americans living in the metropolitan areas around Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York City.
		Asian American jazz is a musical movement in the United States begun in the 20th century by Asian American jazz musicians.
		Historically, Asian Americans have largely been perceived as members of the East Asian ethnic groups, specifically Chinese and Japanese, the two largest ethnic groups before 1965, as well as Filipinos who became colonial subjects of the US in 1898 due to the Spanish-American War (also see Philippine-American War).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asian_American (3586 words)

	South Asian American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South Asian American is considered a subgroup of Asian American.
		South Asian Americans are Americans who can trace their ancestry to the Indian subcontinent, often known as South Asia.
		Many South Asian Americans trace their ancestry to countries outside South Asia, which their ancestors had migrated to from India during the British rule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Asian_American (395 words)

	South American fauna - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about South American fauna
		Intensive development of the Pampas for ranching, exploitation of the rainforest, and remorseless hunting pressure are having a dire effect on the native South American fauna.
		Another factor which allows for exceptional diversity is the South American setting, in which equatorial rainforest and Alpine tundra, lowland Pampas and highland puna, searing deserts and snow-capped mountain ranges lie in close proximity.
		South American Missionary Society (of the Episcopal Church, Inc)
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /South+American+fauna (923 words)

	asian american encyclopedia
		The Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive guide to the history of Japanese immigrants in the western hemisphere.
		Following on the heels of the triumphant Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, it features: 600+ entries, many built on new information from Russian and Chinese archives 100+ contributors, both civilian professors and milit....
		Even as the conservative Protestantism typically associated with the South has risen in social and political prominence throughout the United States in recent decades, however, religious culture in the South itself has grown increasingly diverse.
	www.school-n-office-supplies.com /kwp/asian_american_encyclopedia.html (375 words)

	Asian and Asian American Studies
		The minor also includes courses that focus on the Asian Diaspora, including the Asian American community in the United States.
		The interdisciplinary minor in Asian Studies provides an avenue for students to investigate the heritage and contemporary developments of Asia from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, fine arts, history, modern languages and literatures, philosophy, political science, sociology, and theology.
		Coursework in Asian languages is not required, but courses in Asian languages may count toward the required coursework in Asian Studies.
	www.luc.edu /depts/asian_st (283 words)

	What is Asian American Studies?
		Asian American Studies as a formal course of study in American colleges and universities was initiated some three decades ago to recover, document, analyze, and reconstruct the history, lived experiences, cultures, identities, and contributions of peoples of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in the United States from the perspectives of Asian and Pacific Americans.
		Asian American Studies is an interdisciplinary field that is primarily drawn from and contributes to the humanities, the social sciences, and the arts.
		Asian and Pacific Americans are persons who call the United States their home and trace their ancestry to countries from the Asian continent and subcontinent and islands within the Pacific Rim.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~rle (422 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Feature: The State of Asian American Studies in 2001
		From the late 1960s, when Asian American studies programs were a fledgling interdisciplinary field at Bay Area universities, to the late ’90s when University of Texas students protested for a program, the struggle to institutionalize the study of the Asian Pacific Islander American community has swept across the nation.
		Currently, there are at least 43 undergraduate Asian American studies programs around the country and APIA students represent the largest minority group at many schools, with 23 percent at Stanford University and up to 30 percent at some of the University of California campuses.
		Mia Carter, interim director of the Asian American studies program at the University of Texas, Austin (UT) said that because of high numbers of APIAs at the university — some 21 percent of the school’s population — and the demand for Asian American studies courses by the students, UT began its program two years ago.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_08_31/feature_aastudies.html (887 words)

	Asian American Studies Institute Home
		Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut
	asianamerican.uconn.edu (9 words)

	AA Studies Test
		It is not confined to Asian American or Asian Studies.
		There are currently close to ten Asian American clubs and organizations which share their own rich diversity, but there is little interaction and cohesiveness between them and the larger community due to cultural differences and the lack of strong unifying leadership.
		Queens College has a center for Asian American Studies, but it was really headed by somebody…and then he left and went to NYU and the center has been there but it doesn’t really have much of the stature in terms of scholarship and research.
	www.aaari.org /aa_studies_test.htm (7837 words)

	Asian American Studies
		In using the term "Asian American," the AAS faculty recognizes that the term seeks to name a rapidly developing, complex, and heterogeneous population and that there is neither a single Asian American identity nor one "community" that comprises all Asian Americans.
		Asian American faculty and students at a recent reception in Old Union courtyard.
		Asian Americans include those with ancestral ties to countries or regions in East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, or the
	www.stanford.edu /dept/AAS (121 words)

	Columbia College Bulletin
		Asian American subjectivities are explored in introductory courses on Asian American literatures and cultures and on diasporic and transnational communities and social formations.
		Asian American studies addresses the neglect of Asian Americans by traditional disciplines and advances an education reflective of and relevant to the historical and contemporary realities of all of America’s peoples.
		Columbia’s Asian American Studies Program gained institutionalization in the fall of 1998 and is organized as an interdisciplinary field involving the humanities and social sciences.
	www.college.columbia.edu /students/academics/depts/asia_amer_studies.php (311 words)

	department
		Asian American Studies Department, the largest of four departments in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, was established in Fall 1969 as a result of the 1968 Third World Student Strike.
		Asian American Studies offers fifty sections of classes taught by a faculty of thirty-plus to approximately two thousand students each semester.
		It is a full service academic unit that offers a comprehensive program of study of the Asian American experience with a commitment to serving the University, its students, and the Asian American communities.
	www.sfsu.edu /~aas (221 words)

	Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History - - South Asian American Women
		South Asian women face many challenges in the United States, not the least of which is fighting the stereotypical image of a weak woman who comes from a tradition-bound society.
		Some of the leading contributions of South Asian women are their thought-provoking work on Third World feminism, on tradition and modernity, and on the place of gender at the intersection of forces of race, nation, ethnicity, and class.
		Through these efforts, South Asian women have tried to establish the centrality of women's issues to the well-being of families and children and to contribute to the public debate about immigration and ethnic representation.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/women/html/wh_035000_southasianam.htm (544 words)

	Rajini Srikanth: The World Next Door - Print
		South Asian American poets, novelists, and playwrights depict the nation as simultaneously discrete and entwined with the urgencies of places as diverse as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Pakistan, and Trinidad.
		South Asian American literature, with its focus on the multiple geographies and histories of the global dispersal of South Asians, pulls back from a close-up view of the United States to reveal a wider landscape of many nations and peoples.
		This book grows out of the question, "At this particular moment of tense geopolitics and inter-linked economies, what insights can South Asian American writing offer us about living in the world?"
	www.temple.edu /tempress/titles/1706_reg_print.html (487 words)

	Ethnic Communities
		Among other highpoints for the South Asian American community is in 1952, when one of its members, Dalip Singh Saund became the first APA elected to Congress; and in 1998, when Kalpana Chawal became the first Asian woman in space.
		South Asians who decided to settle down in the U.S. sought women whom they could legally marry, the Mexicans and Mexican Americans—who were allowed to own land.
		"Asian American Dreams," 2000; National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, 1998 Audit of Anti-Asian Violence; Indian American Political Advocacy Council, www.iapac.com; Sakhi, "For South Asian Women," www.sakhi.com; Nash, Phil Tajitsu.
	www.capaa.wa.gov /southasianamericans.html (1181 words)

	UCSB Asian American Studies :: Asian American Studies at UCSB
		As Asian American communities continue to grow and develop, we hope that our students will be better prepared to play an active role in confronting the many challenges faced by all of us living in a multiracial, multicultural world.
		The Department of Asian American Studies was one of the very first autonomous academic Departments in the United States completely devoted to the study of Asian Americans.
		The upper division courses further explore Asian American contributions to literature, art, culture, and film and performance, in addition to Asian American struggles for political equality, opportunity, and fairness.
	www.asamst.ucsb.edu (583 words)

	SULAIR: Research Quick Start Guides: Asian American Studies
		Asian American Writer's Workshop The Asian American Writers' Workshop, a New York-based non-profit organization, is dedicated to the creation, publication and distribution of Asian American literature.
		Asian American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide (Green Library Information Center Z1361.O7 K56 1989) is the most comprehensive and current bibliography of Asian American literature in the social and behavioral sciences and humanities.
		NAATA/CrossCurrent Media National Asian American Telecommunications Association's mission is to advance the ideals of cultural pluralism in the U.S. and to promote better understanding of Asian Pacific American experiences through film, video, radio, and new technologies.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/adams/shortcu/asam.html (1823 words)

	asian american studies
		This collection of essays, commentaries and literary works by Latino and Asian and African American scholars, journalists, and writers focuses on race and ethnic relations in Los Angeles as they have emerged from the uprising and as they exist in the broader national picture.
		Japanese American family life is at the heart of the plays, from elder traditionalists and Nisei still troubled by the message of the wartime camps, to women seeking new roles and brash youth seizing opportunities in a larger society.
		Myths and theories of the American melting pot, of assimilation, and of pluralistic society were shattered as racial violence during the 1992 Los Angeles uprising vividly exposed the inadequacy of our prior assumptions.
	www.washington.edu /uwpress/asian.amer.studies.html (2622 words)

	Institute for Asian American Studies - Home Page
		A study by Paul Watanabe and Michael Liu, “Enabling the Asian American Electorate: 2003 Voter Registration in Eleven Massachusetts Cities and Towns” examines the limits and possibilities of Asian American electoral clout.
		A study by Paul Watanabe and Gregory Kim-Ju on political contributions by Asian Americans in the 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign.
		The Asian Americans in New England Research Initiative is an exciting new project of the Institute for Asian American Studies.
	www.iaas.umb.edu (1199 words)

	Asian American Studies Program, WCAS, Northwestern University
		Asian American Studies is a vital component of a liberal education that seeks to broaden awareness and appreciation of the world.
		Asian American Studies at Northwestern aims to provide students with an understanding of Asian American experiences as fundamental to the ongoing development of America and as linked to both the experiences of other racial minorities in the United States and the experiences of Asian migrants across the world.
		Asian American Studies deepens understanding of the multi-racial history and character of the United States and also provides an opportunity to place the American experience within a larger global context.
	www.wcas.northwestern.edu /asianamerican (207 words)

	SAALT: South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow
		I'm active in the local South Asian community in New Jersey and I know that there are community needs that are not being addressed.
		"South Asians are still seen as an ideal minority in Chicago and nationally; however, this masks the true needs of the community in terms of access to services, the ability to meet basic needs, and affordable health care."
		SAALT Community Alert (Nov. 8, 2005): Relief and Advocacy Efforts regarding South Asian Earthquake
	www.saalt.org (198 words)

	SAWNET: South Asian women's organizations
		Asian American Public Policy Institute addresses issues including domestic violence, child care, HIV and AIDS, lesbian and language issues.
		The South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA) is a group for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered people who trace their descent from countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tibet as well as people of South Asian descent from countries such as Guyana, Trinidad, and Kenya.
		South Asian Network is a non-profit, non-religious, non-political community based organization dedicated to promoting the health and empowerment of South ASians living in Southern California.
	www.sawnet.org /orgns (4222 words)

	AID Publications - South Asian community rallies to provide earthquake relief
		Razvi and other South Asian community leaders pointed out that it is the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a time during which Muslims pay extra attention to charitable giving, so local mosques plan to expand their collection efforts.
		As South Asian organizations appealed for aid, savvy Internet users have decided to put the global information network at work.
		The weekend tremor, registering 7.6 on the Richter scale, is South Asia's worst in a century, and has killed at least 1,244 people in Indian Kashmir and may have killed up to 41,000 in Pakistani Kashmir and Pakistan, according to Reuters.
	publications.aidindia.org /content/view/127/56 (1052 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: South Asian American Community Reacts to Indo-Pakistan Tensions
		These war cries have mobilized the South Asian American community as well.
		A recent conference of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), held in Katmandu, yielded little progress as the two countries continued to remain mum about the situation.
		On Jan. 7, Friends of South Asia — a Bay Area organization — held a demonstration in front of the Indian Consulate in San Francisco to protest the Indian government’s actions in Kashmir.
	www.asianweek.com /2002_01_11/news_indopak.html (1140 words)

	South Asian American Films and Arts Association
		AMERICAN DESI was Piyush's first feature venture and pioneered the genre of NRI films being the first film to secure a worldwide distribution deal and be seen by commercial movie going audiences around the world.
		She is also a great enthusiast and supporter of South Asian cinema.
		A career entrepreneur in the entertainment business, Suri Gopalan has been a pioneer in the South Asian Entertainment Business in the United States.
	www.saafa.org /boardofadvisors.html (972 words)

	Asian American News
		South Asian American writing has been making its uniquely indelible mark on the American reading public since the late 1990s, and there seems to be no sign of the trend letting up.
		For over 30 years, Asian American collector Yoshio Kishi has relentlessly tracked over 10,000 artifacts that relate to the imagined,yellow peril.0/00 These historically and culturally significant items, that date from the mid-1700s to the 1990s, include books, films, photographs, political cartoons, pulp magazines, sheet music, journals, recordings, manuscripts, newspapers, artifacts, and other paper ephemera.
		It also documents the emergence of Asian American voices and activists challenging these stereotypes with a vision for a new America," said Tchen.
	www.asiansinamerica.org /press/0205_press.html (1327 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: South Asian American Health Report Reveals High Heart Disease Risk
		Heart disease has a higher prevalence among Asian Indians in the United States than among any other Asians or non-Hispanic whites, making cardiovascular disease the leading cause of mortality in that population, according to a first-ever report on South Asian American health.
		For two years, the Maryland-based South Asian Public Health Association (SAPHA) collected and examined statistics and finally released a collection of data on critical health issues for South Asian Americans called “A Brown Paper: The Health of South Asians in the United States.”
		Rao said although the statistical data on South Asian women living in the United States and language barriers were limited, she found that anemia, osteoporosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome and reproductive and sexual healthcare are particularly relevant health issues.
	www.asianweek.com /2002_12_13/news_health.html (875 words)

	Asian, Pacific, & South Asian American Video: Media Resources Center UCB
		Chinese, Japanese, and Korean American young adults and members of their families expound upon the generational and cultural gaps existing in Asian American families and stereotypical perceptions of Asians in American society.
		Asian American actors tell real stories based on interviews with Asian Americans addressing such issues as hate violence, the stereotypes placed on Asian men, and psychological damage that racism causes over generations.
		Conference sponsored by the Earl Warren Legal Institute, Asian American Studies Dept., Asian American Law Students Association and the Pacific Islander Law Students Association, UCB.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /VideoTest/AsianAmvid.html (4099 words)

	rosane.rocher.spr.95.html
		It is also the case that the South Asian American experience in the United States has been less studied than that in Canada, a fact that is at significant variance with other strands of Asian American Studies and which stems from a British imperial--now "Commonwealth"--past.
		It is the premise of the course for which this bibliography was developed that the experience of Americans of South Asian origin is best studied in the light, not only of a global South Asian diaspora, but also of the shared experiences of successive generations of Americans of Asian ethnicity.
		Differently from the focus indicated in the subheadings "The Immigrant Experience, 1900-1946" and "The Immigrant Experience, 1947-1986" in South Asians in America, the present bibliography was designed to help students explore their identity as Americans of South Asian ethnicity born and/or raised in the United States.
	asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/sagar/spring.1995/rosane.rocher.spr.95.html (5318 words)

	The Real Desi . Com : Real People , Real Issues , Real Ideas: South Asian Hip Hop
		You have South Asian American DJ’s such as Lil’ Jay, DJ Karma and DJ Sharad mixing Hip-Hop, Hindi and Bhangra together.
		You have South Asian record labels and production teams that sign both African American and South Asian Hip-Hop acts to their labels.
		South Asian artists such as Jay Sean and other UK rappers have been criticized for their distinctly British Style of rapping – which encompasses a fast, double-time style of rap that is popular is UK garage music.
	www.therealdesi.com /southasianhiphop.php (1617 words)

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