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The Asian and Pacific Islander population in Nevada is growing.
Currently, Nevada has about the fifth largest population of Asian Americans. That’s 238,000 people or 8 percent of the state’s population. For comparison, the national average is 5.6 percent per state.
In Clark County, one in 10 people is of Asian descent. Their political and economic influence is growing.
And that population is getting a closer look by UNLV.
UNLV’s Oral History Research Center has been preserving the stories of the Asian American Pacific Islander community with a project called Reflections.
The three-year, $300,000 project plans to collect more than 175 interviews. Leading the project is Claytee White, the director of UNLV’s Oral History Research Center.
Discussion Highlights:
Harrison House:
It was a boarding house on F Street in the Historic Westside that was built in the 40s. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places because it is the last of the homes that were used by Black entertainers and visitors to Las Vegas who could not stay at hotels on the Strip and downtown.
“People like Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole, Pearl Bailey, and other names that we would recognize today as renowned entertainers of the 40s, 50s and 60s. That’s where they stayed because they could not stay at the Dunes, the Flamingo, the Sands, the Desert Inn.”