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Asian Americans and EducationPage 1 of 39 PRINTED FROM the Oxford Research ENCYCLOPEDIA, Education ( ). (c) Oxford University Press USA, 2016. All Rights Reserved. Personal use only; commercial use is strictly prohibited. Please see applicable Privacy Policy and Legal Notice (for details see Privacy Policy).date: 27 May 2017 Summary and KeywordsThe communities that constitute the racialized category of Asian Americans consist of approximately 20 million people in the United States, or about 5% of the total population. About 20% or 4 million are of primary or secondary school age, and over million are in higher Education . Both in popular and academic discourse, Asian American generally refers to people who have ethnic backgrounds in South Asia ( , Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia ( , Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam), and East Asia ( , China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan).
Los Angeles–Orange County (about 1.9 million); New York–New Jersey; San Francisco– Oakland; San Jose; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Honolulu; Seattle-Tacoma; Houston; and Dallas–Fort Worth (about 342,000). In popular discourse, using the term “urban areas” populated by Asian Americans may stir the image of low-income ethnic enclaves like
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