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America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences, Volume II (2001)
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America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences - Volume II

TABLE 14–12 Selected Socioeconomic Indicators for Asians in the United States, 1990

Ethnic Groups

Median Family Income, 1989

Percentage Persons in Poverty

Asian

$41,583

14.0

Japanese

$51,550

7.0

Chinese

$41,316

14.0

Filipino

$46,698

6.4

Korean

$33,909

13.7

Asian Indian

$49,309

9.7

Vietnamese

$30,550

25.7

Cambodian

$18,126

42.6

Hmong

$14,327

63.6

Laotian

$23,101

34.7

 

SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census (1993).

TABLE 14–13 Age-Adjusted Incidence Rates (per 100,000 population) for Select Cancers Among Females, 1988–1992

Group

Breast

Cervix

Colo-Rectal

Lung

Chinese

55.0

7.3

33.6

25.3

Filipino

73.1

9.6

20.9

17.5

Hawaiian

105.6

9.3

30.5

43.1

Japanese

82.3

5.8

39.5

15.2

Korean

28.5

15.2

21.9

16.0

Vietnamese

37.5

43.0

27.1

31.2

Black

95.4

8.7

45.5

44.2

White

111.8

13.2

38.3

41.5

 

SOURCE: SEER Cancer Registry; Miller et al. (1996).

is an important factor to consider in health outcomes, also. Distinctive cultural and geographical regions predict variations in the economic and social experience of Blacks (Green, 1978). Health researchers have documented variations in morbidity and mortality based on region of birth (Fang et al., 1997). Considerable ethnic variation also exists among Black immigrants from the Caribbean region and the African mainland and islands in terms of both culture and language. For example, a Black person born and raised in the U.S. South, a Kenyan, a Jamaican, a Haitian, and a Black person born and raised in the U.S. North are likely to differ in beliefs, behaviors, and even biology. Some limited research suggests that

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