Asian American Essays

The residents of Koreatown experienced large amounts of hostility and resistance from the city after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots. The riots had thousands of people rioting on the streets of Los Angeles for six days, resulting in over 1 billion dollars in …

From the beginning, a diverse population has impacted history in America. From the original explorers and settlers to the present day, America has been a land of immigrants. Distinct waves of immigrants have swept ashore in the United States at different stages, helping to shape and build America in significant …

“These are different times…we’re trying to break stereotypes, break what people have assumed for so long about a culture, about an individual, about the world…this is for discussion…a time for not assuming things.” (Genara Banzon, November 28, 1996). Immigration has created a diverse society today that often includes culturally rich …

It has been a known fact that Asia is the largest continent in the world comprising of almost all of the countries located in the Far East, each having their own cultures, traditions and beliefs.  While there are a number of shared customs and beliefs such as giving high regard …

Asian American Dreams is really a touching book. It is touching not because it is a fiction with many moving plots and the hero or heroin possesses moving characteristics — strictly speaking it is not a fiction — but because it provides a description, a statement, a confession from the …