Asian-Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The phrase Asian-American was coined by Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee in 1968 during the founding of the Asian American Political Alliance, [1] [2] and started to be used by the U.S. census in 1980. [3]
Firsts by Asian-Americans in various fields have historically marked footholds, often leading to more widespread cultural change. The shorthand phrase for them is "breaking the color barrier". [4] One commonly cited example is that of Wataru Misaka, who became the first person of color, [5] and the first Asian-American, to be a National Basketball Association player (in 1947.) [6] [7]
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selecting the first African American woman and South Asian American to compete on a major party's presidential ticket
making her the first Black woman on a major party's presidential ticket ... It also marks the first time a person of Asian descent is on the presidential ticket.
Stephen Hawking invited me to discuss [the proof] with him at Cambridge University in late August 1978. I gladly accepted.... Travel was difficult, however, because the British Consulate had recently taken my Hong Kong resident card, maintaining that I could not keep it now that I had a U.S. green card. In the process, I had become stateless. I was no longer a citizen of any country.... until I became a U.S. citizen in 1990.
Southern Californian Bobby Balcena was the first Asian American to play Major League Baseball.Florante Peter Ibanez; Roselyn Estepa Ibanez (2009). Filipinos in Carson and the South Bay. Arcadia Publishing. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-7385-7036-5.