Asians in Thriving Enclaves Keep Distance From Whites in U.S.

Asians, the fastest-growing, highest-earning and best-educated race in the U.S., are almost as segregated from the nation’s white majority as they were two decades ago, according to a study released today.

Specific Asian ancestries -- including two of the largest, Chinese and Indians -- are as isolated from the white population as Hispanics, according to the study by two Brown University sociologists. At the same time, Asians generally live in neighborhoods that are comparable -- and in some ways “markedly better” -- than those of whites, the study said.