
Most US schools teach little to nothing about Asian American history and it hurts everyone, experts say
CNN
When Jinhee Kim's daughter looked in her history book, she didn't see anyone who looked like herself -- and she had questions for her mother about why that was so.
"Mommy, why do we not learn about Asian American history? Why are other ones more important?" the elementary student asked Kim, an associate professor of elementary and early childhood education at Kennesaw University. "Why are other people more respected? About 22.9 million people in the US identify as having Asian heritage, according to the US Census. Yet, in many schools across the US, if Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are mentioned in social studies and history lessons at all, they boil down to brief lines describing primarily two topics: immigration and Pearl Harbor.More Related News