Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Brown (racial classification)" in English language version.
And that, unfortunately, did not include any South Asians and only one Filipino. That caused a bit of an outcry. It raises a legitimate issue, of course, one about how 'brown Asians' often feel excluded from the Asian American conversation.
Brown Man's Land is the Near and Middle East. The brown world stretches in an immense belt clear across southern Asia and northern Africa, from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans
Yet we didn't similarly rally to support the instances of Anti-Asian hate pre-COVID-19 and certainly not for Brown, South Asians.