[HERITAGE-LIST] Resource: A PORTRAIT OF CHINESE AMERICANS

[Scott G. McGINNIS]

(Please note: When I attempted to search for this report in the cited database, I was unable to find it -- I have included the original message forwarder, Russell Rumberger, in case anybody has further interest in this paper -- Scott McGinnis)

Forwarded From: Russell W. Rumberger <russ at lmri.ucsb.edu>
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UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute

A Portrait of Chinese Americans

By Larry Hajime Shinagawa and Dae Young Kim

Chinese Americans have been in the United States for over 150 years. As the oldest and largest Asian American community, it has grown rapidly in size and influence and is comprised of various sub-ethnicities, languages, immigration histories, and generations.

This report describes the Chinese American population by providing a textured and nuanced description of their diversity of experiences, patterns of concentration, wide and bimodal range of social and economic conditions, and their relatively modest income returns for their educational and occupational achievements.

Highlights:

Chinese Americans number at 3,497,484, constituting 1.2 percent of the entire U.S. population. Furthermore, Chinese Americans account for one in four Asian Americans (24.3%), making them the largest ethnic group among Asian Americans.

Chinese Americans consistently make lower incomes than non-Hispanic Whites in every level of education (see figure below).

Chinese Americans exhibit a marked bimodal distribution in their level of education. While Chinese Americans ages 25 and older have twice as many college degree holders (51.7%) as the general population (27%), this is offset by a significant presence of more Chinese Americans who earn less than a high school diploma (18.5%) than the general
population (15.9%).

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