Sources: Asian Americans: A Statistical Sourcebook
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How do individuals of Asian descent in the United States identify themselves in ethnic terms and why? In this study, we map the contours of ethnic self identities among adults in this immigrant community of color and explain their identity preferences with a new and large-scale survey that collects public opinion from randomly selected individuals of the six largest Asian American descents who ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Reference & User Services Quarterly
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1094-9054
DOI: 10.5860/rusq.47n3.281.3