Asian Americans and racism: When bad things happen to "model minorities."

Alvarez, Alvin N.; Juang, Linda P.; Liang, Christopher T. H.

doi:10.1037/1099-9809.12.3.477

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“…Two multiple moderation models were run separately to assess (1) heterosexist discrimination to psychological distress and (2) racist events to psychological distress. Asian American, the RaLES-DLE has demonstrated adequate re liability yielding Cronbach's alpha of .94 (Alvarez et al, 2006). Cronbach's alpha for RaLES-DLE items in the present study was .94 for both frequency of racist-events and race involvement (see Figure 3).…”

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confidence: 79%

Negotiating multiple marginalizations: Experiences of South Asian LGBQ individuals.

Sandil¹,

Robinson²,

Brewster³

et al. 2015

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Drawing from minority stress (Meyer, 2003) and feminist multicultural (Brown, 1994) theories, the present study investigated the additive and interactive relations between 2 types of external minority stress (heterosexist discrimination and racist events) and 4 internal stress processes related to identifying as a South Asian American lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) person (internalized heterosexism, acculturation, enculturation, and outness as LGBQ) with psychological distress. With 142 participants, Pearson's correlations, multiple regression, and simultaneous multiple moderation analyses were conducted. Experiences of heterosexist discrimination, racist events, and internalized heterosexism were correlated positively with psychological distress and enculturation was correlated negatively. In a test of the additive model, heterosexist discrimination, racist events, and internalized heterosexism accounted for significant and unique variance in psychological distress, but outness, acculturation, and enculturation did not. To test the interactive model, the simultaneous moderating roles of the internal stress processes were examined in the links between the external minority stressors to psychological distress. Only outness as LGBQ emerged as a moderator. The link between racist events and psychological distress was exacerbated in instances of higher outness, such that respondents with high racist events and high outness reported the highest levels of psychological distress. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed and future research directions focused on the needs of South Asian American LGBQ people are suggested.

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confidence: 79%

Negotiating multiple marginalizations: Experiences of South Asian LGBQ individuals.

Sandil¹,

Robinson²,

Brewster³

et al. 2015

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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“…A number of recent studies show that Asian American students report higher levels of ethnic/race-based peer discrimination than students from other minority groups (Alvarez, Juang, & Liang, 2006;Choi, Meininger, & Roberts, 2006;Fisher et al, 2000;Goto, Gee, & Takeuchi, 2002;Greene et al, 2006;Grossman & Liang, 2008;Kohatsu et al, 2000;Rivas, Hughes, & Way, in press;Rosenbloom & Way, 2004;Way et al, in press). Alvarez and colleagues' (2006) study of Asian American college students found that 98% reported experiencing at least one racial micro-aggression such as being treated rudely in the past year.…”

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confidence: 94%

The “model minority” and their discontent: Examining peer discrimination and harassment of Chinese American immigrant youth

Qin

Way

Rana

2008

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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Using an ecological framework, the authors explore the reasons for peer discrimination and harassment reported by many Chinese American youth. They draw on longitudinal data collected on 120 first- and second-generation Chinese American students from two studies conducted in Boston and New York. Our analyses suggested that reasons for these experiences of harassment lay with the beliefs about academic ability, the students' immigrant status and language barriers, within-group conflicts, and their physical appearance that made them different from other ethnic minority or majority students. Implications and future research are also discussed.

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“…Although we adjusted for measures of perceived discrimination, these items may not have fully captured the extent of discrimination experienced by Asian/Pacific Islanders attending predominantly minority high schools in our sample. For example, Asian American youth and young adults also experience the perception of being a "perpetual foreigner" who pose a threat economically or educationally (Tuan 1998;Alvarez et al 2006). Future research should consider the negative consequences of not only racially motivated discrimination but also anti-immigrant hostility that may increase feelings of social exclusion.…”

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confidence: 99%

Effect of School Racial Composition on Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence Through Early Adulthood

2011

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We investigate the effect of high school racial composition, measured as percent of non-Hispanic white students, on trajectories of depressive symptoms from adolescence to early adulthood. We also explore whether the effect of school racial composition varies by respondent race/ethnicity and whether adult socioeconomic status mediates this relationship. We analyzed four waves of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health using 3-level linear growth models. We restricted our sample to respondents enrolled in grades 9-12 in 1994/5 who were interviewed at a minimum in Waves I and IV. This resulted in 10,350 respondents enrolled in 80 high schools in 1994/5 (5,561 whites, 2,030 blacks, 1,834 Hispanics, 738 Asians, and 187 of other race). As the percentage of white students increased at the high school respondents attended in 1994/5, blacks reported more depressive symptoms. This effect did not vary by age. In comparison, Asian and Hispanic respondents who attended predominantly white high schools had lower levels of depressive symptoms than their counterparts who attended predominantly minority schools, but they also experienced a slower decline in depressive symptoms through early adulthood. Adult SES mediated the relationship between high school racial composition and depressive symptoms for black, but not for Asian or Hispanic respondents. Our results suggest that high school racial composition is associated with trajectories of depressive symptoms through early adulthood, but the effect differs by respondents' race/ethnicity. Racial/ethnic disparities in depressive symptoms during early adulthood may have their origins in adolescence.

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Asian Americans and racism: When bad things happen to "model minorities."

Cited by 233 publications

References 17 publications

Negotiating multiple marginalizations: Experiences of South Asian LGBQ individuals.

Negotiating multiple marginalizations: Experiences of South Asian LGBQ individuals.

The “model minority” and their discontent: Examining peer discrimination and harassment of Chinese American immigrant youth

Effect of School Racial Composition on Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence Through Early Adulthood

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