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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

In his new book, The Loneliest Americans, Jay Caspian Kang, posits two Asian Americas,

one populated by upper middle class people who have made rapid economic and educational strides,

and another group of immigrants and refugees who are barely hanging on to the bottom of American society.

The problem for Kang is that those empowered to speak for Asian Americans

concentrate on their own class problems and not those of the working poor.

Is there enough to unite these groups into a cohesive political unit?

And no matter the answer, should anyone be trying to do so, that's coming up on Forum after this news. This is Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Demographic labels are a double-edged sword. On one side,

a bigger group, Latinos, Asian-Americans, gives heft to political concerns. On the other,

some terms may become so big that the connections between the people gathered under the banner

are too tenuous to hold them together

for any practical purpose. This is a debate we've been having endlessly in the Latin world,

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