Asian Americans outnumber other groups at UC

Harry Mok
April 20, 2006

Berkeley, UCLA and other campuses of the system have had large percentages of Asian Americans since the 1980s. It was only a matter of time before they outnumbered white students. As professor Ling-chi Wang says in the article, get ready for the possible backlash to the news.

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Harry Mok

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Editor in Chief Harry Mok wrote about growing up on a Chinese vegetable farm for the second issue of Hyphen and has been a volunteer editor since 2004. As a board member of the San Francisco and New York chapters of the Asian American Journalists Association, Harry has recruited and organized events for student members. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also a graduate student instructor in the Asian American Studies Department.

Comments

Comments

Puhtoodee wrote on Thu, 04/20/2006 - 3:34pm
and my homefolk usta call UTA, that's University of Texas at Arlington, University of a Thousand Asians. wow, a thousand. Well, it's suburban TX, you know. There were only 2 other Filipino families at my giganormous Catholic Church (St. Vincent! what! what!).Anyhow, what are we talkin bout here, Willis? Several Tens of Thousands of Asian Americans? That's purty darn cool.
momo wrote on Thu, 04/20/2006 - 5:06pm
Interesting article, but if you look at data broken down by ethnicity, this year's Pilipino population at UC Berkeley and other UC's actually declined. Not sure about other ethnicities, but I'd venture to say that many API ethnic groups are "underrepresented" at Berkeley and other UCs.
G. Chell wrote on Sun, 04/23/2006 - 9:01pm
Littleton, CO is full of white people who transplanted from California because their kids found it tough to compete with Asian Americans.