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Government Info 

US government - census
Ohio government 
Columbus 
Cleveland 
Cincinnati 
Dayton
Toledo
Ohio Representative - Deborah Pryce
Ohio Senators - George Voinovich, Mike DeWine
Social Security (multi-language)
Equal Employment Opportunity commission EEOC
Ohio Civil Rights Commission OCRC

Asian American  sources

Regional
Cleveland OCA
AAC-Dayton

Cutural
Asiawind

Census stats

Partnering Civil organizations

NAACP

Asian American  sources

National

Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA)
80/20 Initiative
Smithsonian program for Asian American studies
About.com
Asian American Resources
Asian American Cybernauts
Asian American Net
Angel Island , Angel Island poetry, Angel Island (Houstonians), International Channel
National Asian American Telecommunication Association NAATA
Ancestors in the Americas (film)
Asian-Nation
Committee100

 

Census

Asian population in Ohio and the nation

US Census Bureau - Census 2000 - Asians national distribution
US Asian and Pacific Islanders distribution
Census data on Ohio Asian population in your county 
Social statistics of populations (AmeriStat) -  good resource
Columbus Dispatch - census info with summaries.
US census - You can search on other states using fact finder 
Population Reference Bureau - world population 
In 1990 census, there was no Asian ancestry listed! 68 million people were lumped into "other ancestries". Only European ancestries were surveyed including 365,544 Romanians and 870,738 Arabs. 

Ohio Counties with more than 1000 Asians: 

Counties
Total
population
Population
Age =>18
Asians
Incorporated	
Total 
population
 
Asians
Franklin County
Cuyahoga County
Hamilton County
Summit County
Montgomery County
Lucas County
Butler County
Greene County
Stark County
Lake County
Warren County
Lorain County
Delaware County
Wood County
Portage County
Mahoning County
Athens County
Clermont County
Trumbull County
1,068,978
1,393,978
845,303
542,899
559,062
455,054
332,807
147,886
378,098
227,511
158,383
284,664
109,989
121,065
152,061
257,555
62,223
177,977
225,116
800,657
1,045,988
627,129
406,913
421,083
335,573
246,511
112,527
284,162
172,475
114,465
210,114
78,928
92,381
115,952
196,406
50,812
128,281
170,296
32,784
25,245
13,602
7,641
7,341
5,527
5,147
2,995
2,059
2,048
1,991
1,703
1,690
1,247
1,246
1,220
1,184
1,129
1,014
Columbus city
Cleveland city 
Cincinnati city 
Toledo city 
Akron city 
Dayton city 
Parma city 
Youngstown city 
Canton city 
Lorain city 
Springfield city 
Hamilton city 
Kettering city 
Lakewood city 
Elyria city
 692 641
 467 702
 325 732
 305 560
 212 571
 163 142
 84 721
 80 013
 78 332
 65 911
 63 962
 59 916
 56 815
 55 142
 54 478
 
24 495
 6 444
 5 132
 3 233
 3 257
 1 075
 1 349
  267
  257
  227
  455
  275
  795
  800
  340
 

Ohio demographics (2000 census)

Race alone or in combination with one or more other races

number

%
Total 11,353,140 100.0
White

9,779,512

86.1

Black or African American

1,372,501

12.1

American Indian and Alaska Native

76,075

0.7

Asian

159,776

1.4

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander

6,984

0.1

Some other race

128,671

1.1

 

RACE

number

One race

11,195,255

98.6

White

9,645,453

85.0

Black or African American

1,301,307

11.5

American Indian and Alaska Native

24,486

0.2

Asian

132,633

1.2

Asian Indian

38,752

30,425

0.3

Filipino

12,393

0.1

Japanese

10,732

0.1

Korean

13,376

0.1

Vietnamese

9,812

0.1

Other Asian 1

17,143

0.2

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander

2,749

0.0

Native Hawaiian

788

0.0

Guamanian or Chamorro

618

0.0

Samoan

565

0.0

Other Pacific Islander 2

778

0.0

Some other race

88,627

0.8

Two or more races

157,885

1.4

Movies

Chinatown Files - Award winning film, Exceptional documentary.
Ancestors in the Americas  - A great film in 3 parts about Asian immigration to the Americas.
Asian American Films
Asian films at Stanford University
Becoming Americans (Bill Moyers, 2003) 

Chinatowns

San FranciscoNew York CityNYC, Los AngelesOld LA,   ChicagoSeattleHawaii
Toronto, MontrealVancouver
Sydney, Melbourne
London

Books

Frank Wu: "Yellow"
Helen Zia: "Asian American Dream" 
Iris Chang : "Chinese in America- A Narrative History"

History

Chinese in America Civil War  
OCA-Columbus Historical marker to commemorate Asian soldiers in American civil war
RailwayCanadian railway
Navel Orange, grapefruit, pear, apricot  lichee, were all originated in China and brought to America. 
Development of early California by Chinese, in Los Angeles
Asian American history (about.com),  Asian American history(erikalee),  Asian American timeline
History of Chinese in the Philippines and why they came to the US as the earliest Chinese in US.
Bill Moyers : Becoming American
PBS: The Gold Rush

 

Organization of Chinese Americans - Columbus Chapter                     updated:  Friday, May 21, 2004
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