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In the wake of anti-Asian violence in North America, we need to demand accountability and not just stop after performing mental health check-ins.
The invisibility of anti-Asian racism is inextricably connected to the model minority myth, which serves to disguise the violence experienced by Asian American and Asian Canadian women.
The media tends to render Asian Americans as either a ‘perpetual foreigner’ or ‘model minority’ – both stereotypes that have been levied in tandem against immigrants from Asia since the 1830s.
US culture has long represented Asian American women as sexually seductive – showing how victims’ gender and race cannot be separated when attacked by white male violence.
Bias-motivated attacks became a distinct crime in the 1980s. But police investigate only a fraction of the roughly 200,000 hate crimes reported each year – and even fewer ever make it to court.
Some racism isn’t criminal at all but still is the result of deep-seated and long-standing racial prejudices.
Researchers examined the voting behavior of 5,762 students at 120 colleges and universities. Two groups stood out as an untapped electoral resource – if the candidates can turn out Gen Z.
Asian Americans were engaged in an electoral realignment long before Kamala Harris was added to the 2020 Democratic ticket.
Black and Asian American communities have been portrayed as in opposition to each other. Multiracial Kamala Harris, both Asian American and Black, represents the potential for coalition building.
While the debates about Kamala Harris’ multiraciality may seem new, they are similar to the commentary other high-profile mixed-race people in the US have received about their racial identities.
The census will likely count fewer Black Americans, Indigenous peoples, Asian Americans and Americans of Hispanic or Latino origin than there actually are.
How should Asian Americans respond to rising anti-Asian racist actions? History may offer some lessons during the pandemic.
Fear of COVID-19 has sparked some to react with violent racism towards Asian Americans and Canadians. This is not the first time fear of disease has led to outbreaks of violent anti-Asian racism.
Researchers have found a way to encourage cervical cancer screenings and vaccinations in Korean American women. Might their findings also work in other underrepresented populations?
Overt racism is easy to spot. But more subtle forms based on false narratives can be equally dehumanizing – and it’s no joke.
Marginalized groups said that they had experienced discrimination at the workplace, at the doctor and with the police.
For children born in the shadows of overseas US military bases to local women, their citizenship status has long been contested.
The South is changing, with more Asian and Latino immigrants moving in and diversifying a region that was once black and white. Stacey Abrams knows that Democrats can win these rural voters.
Test prep is a prominent feature in Asian-American communities, which helps explain recent gains that Asian-Americans made in the SAT and ACT college entrance exams, a higher education scholar argues.
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Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies, Arizona State University
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Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
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Adjunct Professor (Teaching); Managing Director of the Spatial Sciences Institute, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington
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Dean of School of Education, University of San Francisco
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Assistant Professor of Church and Community Ministries, Baylor University
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Professor & Chair of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Higher Education, The Ohio State University
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Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Emeritus, Harvard University
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Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Assistant Director of the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
