{"id":15905,"date":"2021-05-04T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T17:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/?p=15905"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:35:45","slug":"may-is-asian-pacific-american-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2021\/05\/04\/may-is-asian-pacific-american-heritage-month\/","title":{"rendered":"May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month <\/strong>\u2013 a celebration that recognizes the generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders who have contributed to and influenced America\u2019s history, culture, and triumphs.

From our Research Guide about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month<\/a>, courtesy of our reference librarian, Annette Alvarado<\/em>:

Historically, Asians and Pacific Islanders were grouped together by government classifications and by the groups, as part of an intentional community-based strategy to build coalitions with one another. There are conflicting views on the appropriateness of any aggregate classification or reference \u2013 \u201cAsian Pacific American\u201d, \u201cAsian American and Pacific Islander\u201d, etc; and a lot of significance can get attached to them, e.g., the word \u201cOther\u201d in \u201cNative Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander\u201d (NHOPI), and it is at times dropped in favor of \u201cNative Hawaiian and Pacific Islander\u201d.\u00a0 These communities use various names to describe themselves; these groupings are ultimately political and part of a dynamic, continuing process of self-determination and self-identification.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The groups\nuse the term \u201cAsian and Pacific Islander\u201d to include all people of Asian, Asian\nAmerican or Pacific Islander ancestry who trace their origins to the countries,\nstates, jurisdictions and\/or the diasporic communities of these geographic\nregions.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like most commemorative months, Asian Pacific\nHeritage Month originated in a congressional bill. In June 1977, Reps. Frank\nHorton of New York and Norman Y. Mineta of California introduced a House\nresolution that called upon the president to proclaim the first ten days of May\nas Asian-Pacific Heritage Week. The following month, senators Daniel Inouye and\nSpark Matsunaga introduced a similar bill in the Senate. Both were passed. On\nOctober 5, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed a Joint Resolution designating\nthe annual celebration. Twelve years later, President George H.W. Bush signed\nan extension making the week-long celebration into a month-long celebration. <\/strong>In 1992, the official designation of May\nas Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month was signed into law.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The month of May was chosen to commemorate the\nimmigration of the first Japanese to the United States on May 7, 1843, and to\nmark the anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on May\n10, 1869. The majority of the workers who laid the tracks were Chinese\nimmigrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month \u2013 a celebration that recognizes the generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders who have contributed to and influenced America\u2019s history, culture, and triumphs. From our Research Guide about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, courtesy of our reference librarian, Annette Alvarado: Historically, Asians and Pacific Islanders were grouped together […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":15907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[5010,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15909,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905\/revisions\/15909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}