Interactive data visualization of disaggregated demographic data on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Made for Stanford's CME 151 (Introduction to Data Visualization) course in Winter of 2016. View the project at ethanjli.github.io/aapi-disaggregated-vis/.
The model minority stereotype became popular in the 1960s and 1970s, the era of the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement. After the Immigration Act of 1965 and subsequent immigration laws removed limits on immigration from Asian countries and opened the doors to highly skilled foreign nationals, Asian Americans started being praised as apolitical, economically successful "model minorities" in contrast to African Americans, who were deemed "problem minorities". This visualization presents recent demographic data from California which shows that multiple subgroups within the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) category resemble other nonwhite racial groups on important socioeconomic metrics – the model minority myth is a convenient fiction that rationalizes the status quo of inequalities within and beyond Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
This project was built using:
- Bootstrap for layout and styles.
- jQuery for some interactions.
- C3.js for interactive data visualization.
This project compiles and visualizes data from:
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: 2012.
- Center for American Progress, State of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Series reports by Karthick Ramakrishnan and Farah Z. Ahmad.
- U.S. Census Bureau, Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014 report by Carmen DeNavas-Walt and Bernadette D. Proctor, based on information collected from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement.
- U.S. Census Bureau, 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Direct source of the data presented is from Asian Americans Advancing Justice, A Community of Contrasts: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in California, 2013.