Asian Americans

A pan-ethnic U.S. demographic category referring to Americans of Asian ancestry, used in discussions of race, immigration law, and civil rights history. In the source claims it denotes a group subjected to discriminatory legal restrictions (e.g., anti-miscegenation laws) and positioned within racial hierarchies relative to other groups.

Claims that use this term

• Asian Americans became model minorities only by contrast with Black civil-rights activism.
• American courts restricted miscegenation between whites and Asian Americans.