Preserving Places of Belonging in Asian America: The Value of Community Voice
The Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (hereafter “AA and NHPI”) community is the nation’s fastest-growing racial group. Growing more than four times as rapidly as the total US population since the turn of the century, the AA and NHPI community’s numbers are expected to double again to nearly 36 million by 2060.
In mainstream narratives, AA and NHPI communities are often lumped together as a monolithic group with a singular experience. But they are, in fact, incredibly diverse—representing many ethnicities, speaking hundreds of languages, identifying with various faiths, with very different migration stories.
