• Japanese immigration to the U.S. effectively ended when Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1924 which banned all but a token few Japanese people. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prior to the Gentlemen's Agreement, about seven out of eight ethnic Japanese in the continental United States were men. (wikipedia.org)
  • Webster's New World Fourth College Edition defines a concentration camp: "A prison camp in which political dissidents, members of minority ethnic groups, etc. are confined. (wikipedia.org)
  • The internment was based on the race or ancestry, rather than the activities of the interned. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term " racism " is usually applied to the dominant group in such a society, because that group typically has the means to oppress others. (slife.org)
  • For many generations now, a cultural divide has been widening between the Ongwehoweh Indigenous peoples in the United States who seek to preserve their distinct existence and right of self-determination--and Native Americans--those individuals of Indigenous ancestry who seek to assimilate into and become a part of American society. (racism.org)
  • This appears to have been independently lost in members of many groups, but some agamids and snakes have regained the ability to shed their tails by a simpler intervertebral means and a -number of agamids have also redeveloped tail regeneration as well. (gallotia.de)
  • but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in number to constitute the sixth largest Asian American group at around 1,469,637, including those of partial ancestry. (wikipedia.org)
  • Deutschamerikaner , in German pronounced as /ˈdɔʏtʃʔameʁiˌkaːnɐ/) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. (explained.today)
  • The internment was based on the race or ancestry, rather than the activities of the interned. (wikipedia.org)
  • There was no mass internment of Hawaii's Japanese population as in the continental U.S. To do so in Hawaii would have been logistically and economically infeasible given the numbers. (hawaiifreepress.com)
  • Japanese Americans (Japanese: 日系アメリカ人) are Americans of Japanese ancestry. (wikipedia.org)
  • The exact details were not important - the point is that they were around "we" (say - African-Americans) versus "them (say - Asians). (stackexchange.com)
  • With an estimated size of approximately 43 million in 2019, German Americans are the largest of the self-reported ancestry groups by the United States Census Bureau in its American Community Survey . (explained.today)
  • [1] German Americans account for about one third of the total population of people of German ancestry in the world. (explained.today)
  • Pennsylvania, with 3.5 million people of German ancestry, has the largest population of German-Americans in the U.S. and is home to one of the group's original settlements, Germantown (Philadelphia) , founded in 1683 and the birthplace of the American antislavery movement in 1688, as well as the revolutionary Battle of Germantown . (explained.today)
  • He referred to this group as the Talented Tenth , a concept under the umbrella of racial uplift , and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership. (knowpia.com)
  • But the forces of segregation and racism in Congress effectively derailed statehood for more than a decade. (hawaiifreepress.com)
  • And Hawaii would become the first state with a majority of people of Asian descent. (hawaiifreepress.com)
  • But martial law imposed particular burdens on people of Japanese ancestry and severely limited political activity in the islands. (hawaiifreepress.com)
  • His cause included people of color everywhere, particularly Africans and Asians in colonies. (knowpia.com)
  • An individual can report as White, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian and Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, or some other race. (stackexchange.com)
  • Any increased power that statehood might confer on Native Hawaiians and Asians would necessarily undermine white supremacy in the islands. (hawaiifreepress.com)
  • But the Sugar Act of 1934 , which set quotas on Hawaii sugar exports to the continental U.S., changed the calculus of the territory's white leaders, who now saw the advantage of being a fully equal U.S. state with federal representation. (hawaiifreepress.com)
  • gnasher729 While that teenager did so to be provocative and make a point about where he came from, most whites who move from South Africa to the USA would self-identify as white and not incorrectly because the deep ancestry is from Europe and they are also basically partaking in an expatriot outpost of European culture and language. (stackexchange.com)
  • He was a proponent of Pan-Africanism and helped organize several Pan-African Congresses to fight for the independence of African colonies from European powers. (knowpia.com)