ABSTRACT
Who is the emerging new in the U.S.? It is the Asian-Pacific American population, doubling in size over the past decade to more than 6 million people. The images of affluence and the rhetoric of the so-called “model minorities” mask the essential common ground linking Asian-Americans to other people of color. The brutal murder of Vincent Chin in Detroit and ethnic harassment of Asian people throughout the country, the efforts to undercut educational opportunities and access for Asian-Americans, and political maneuvers to divide, split, and to compromise progressive political currents in Asian-American communities link these struggles to related issues for African-Americans and Latinos.
