{"title":"Coming to America.","authors":"G. Bolandrina","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt1vw0s35.16","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In 1978, a joint congressional resolution established Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week. The first 10 days of May were chosen to coincide with two important anniversaries: the arrival in the United States of the first Japanese immigrants (May 7, 1843) and the completion of the transcontinental railroad (May 10, 1869). In 1992, Congress expanded the 10-day observance to a month-long celebration. 75,629 The population of who will identify themselves as Asian alone in Iowa according to the 2020 Census. This group comprises 2.4% of Iowa’s total population.","PeriodicalId":79522,"journal":{"name":"Nursing spectrum (Florida ed.)","volume":"9 1","pages":"145 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"75","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nursing spectrum (Florida ed.)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1vw0s35.16","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In 1978, a joint congressional resolution established Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week. The first 10 days of May were chosen to coincide with two important anniversaries: the arrival in the United States of the first Japanese immigrants (May 7, 1843) and the completion of the transcontinental railroad (May 10, 1869). In 1992, Congress expanded the 10-day observance to a month-long celebration. 75,629 The population of who will identify themselves as Asian alone in Iowa according to the 2020 Census. This group comprises 2.4% of Iowa’s total population.