Blacks and asians

Asian-Americans were the only racial group whose upward mobility was lower among second-generation immigrants. By Molly Fosco. When Julia Lam told her parents she was leaving her job at Facebook to start her own company, they were quick to warn her of the risks. While her parents were supportive of her entrepreneurial path, they always felt a steady job was safer. Her dad is an engineer, her mom a CPA. As immigrants, they wanted their daughter to have every opportunity for success.

I write to my African-American friends to suggest three reasons for including Asian Americans in the civil rights movement for the benefit of the historic struggle for Black equality. I am humbled by my time at Howard University, which made me who I am as a thinker, changing my attitudes as no amount of scholarly study could have done for the child of Asian immigrants raised in Detroit suburbs that were overwhelmingly White. I am inspired by W. Du Bois, whose dedication as a race man to the uplift of African-Americans as a race could not be doubted, in his role among the founders of the NAACP and his advocacy of the Talented Tenth who had rights and responsibilities. Yet I realize that there is mutual suspicion. Asian Americans are perceived, rightly or wrongly, as well-to-do, self-interested, late-arriving bigots and, in the interests of reaching out, we can bracket for now any protest that these allegations are themselves based on stereotypes.

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White and black Americans diverge in their opinions on the quality of relations between various racial and ethnic groups. Americans are generally positive about relations between racial groups, but much less so about black-white relations. Interestingly, there is a noticeable difference between black vs.