Discrimination Against Asian Americans

Racism and socioeconomic inequality has been part of life for many years amongst Americans of Asian origin. Segregation started in the early nineteenth century when the Chinese and other Asians started trooping into the country owing to the harsh regime back at home and the attractive jobs that came with the industrialized America. Their journey towards realizing the American dream has not been easy and as Hing (179) states, most of them finds it hard to identify themselves as Americans and ends up mobilized into sectorial grouping to fit in. With this discussion being quite broad, I’d like to focus on the issues that have been privileged in the discrimination against Asian Americans thus resulting to disparities in socioeconomic and class status as well as those facts that have been overlooked over the years.
Political and social problems have been the main factors that help in fueling racial discrimination against the Asian Americans. For instance, going back to as far as the times of the forefathers and the declaration of independence, racial segregation was experienced. In the year 1790 when the naturalization act was passed, the Asian Americans were sidelined. This included
During the early years of the twentieth century, there were very many Asian Americans living in the state owing to their earlier activities in the region (Chan, 23). Despite them being among the leading population in the state, the new laws barred them from owning land thus preventing them from engaging in meaningful economic activities. These were basically desperate moves to frustrate the community and prevent them from being economically relevant. It portrays the need to keep the population dependent on the white minority in the region so as they would keep providing cheap labor to the white owned