Asian Americans

Explore the impact of Asian Americans, the fastest-growing racial/ethnic group in the United States, on the country's past, present and future, told through individual lives and personal histories.

Sun, Apr 12	3:00 A.M.	Breaking Ground NHPBS (11.1) See how new immigrants from China, India, Japan, the Philippines and beyond, despite anti-Asian laws, still manage to build railroads, dazzle on the silver screen and take their fight for equality to the U.
Sun, Apr 12	4:00 A.M.	A Question of Loyalty NHPBS (11.1) Meet the first generation of U.S.-born Asian Americans, whose loyalties are tested during WWII.
Sun, Apr 19	3:00 A.M.	Good Americans NHPBS (11.1) Learn how Asian Americans are simultaneously heralded as a model minority and targeted as the perpetual foreigner during the Cold War.
Sun, Apr 19	4:00 A.M.	Generation Rising NHPBS (11.1) Follow a young generation's fight for equality in the fields, on campuses and in the culture, claiming a new identity: Asian Americans.
Sat, Apr 25	3:00 A.M.	Breaking Through NHPBS (11.1) Revisit the turn of the millennium, when Asian Americans are empowered by growing numbers and rising influence but face a reckoning of what it means to be an American in an increasingly polarized society.