Being American Between Black and White: Second-Generation Asian American Professionals' Racial Identities

Dhingra, Pawan

doi:10.1353/jaas.2004.0004

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“…1), idealized patriarchal beliefs about gender will positively relate to group pride which will positively relate to resilience, which in turn will negatively relate to depression. In the context of Asian American stereotypes as the "model minority" because of their perceived economic and educational success, this study examined Asian Americans' reported pride as members of this successful immigrant group (Dhingra 2003;Espiritu 2001).…”

Section: Immigration and Idealized Beliefs About Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although the validity of the model minority myth has been questioned due to the varying success among Asian Americans (Cheng 1997;Lee 1994;Woo 2000), Asian Americans do endorse the image of Asian Americans as exemplars of American ideals, such as "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" against all odds through sheer hard work and perseverance (Chun and Sue 1998;Dhingra 2003;Hune and Chan 1997). Gender also anchors these idealized positive constructions of group identity, which reinforces the appropriateness of the ICI model in Asian American communities (Mahalingam 2006).…”

Section: Immigration and Idealized Beliefs About Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Engendering Immigrant Psychology: An Intersectionality Perspective

2008

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In this paper, using an intersectionality perspective, we tested the idealized cultural identities model proposed by Mahalingam (Cultural psychology of immigrants. Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp 1-14, 2006) using a sample of Asian Americans (N=151). According to the structural model, idealized identities positively relate to ethnic pride, which is positively related to resilience. The data had excellent fit (Comparative Fitness Index=.99). Idealized patriarchal beliefs regarding femininity positively related to model minority pride (b=.34, p<.0001) and idealized patriarchal beliefs regarding masculinity were positively related to model minority pride (b=.29, p<.001). Additionally, model minority pride was positively related to resilience (b=.25, p<.001) which was negatively related to depression (b=−.46, p<.0001). Further, we discuss the significance of the intersectionality perspective in studying immigrants.

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Section: Immigration and Idealized Beliefs About Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Immigration and Idealized Beliefs About Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Engendering Immigrant Psychology: An Intersectionality Perspective

2008

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“…The different attitudes toward race between first and second generation Indians in the United States has certainly been noted by other scholars (Visweswaran 1997;Khandelwal 2002;Koshy 2002;Dhingra 2003;Kurien 2005;Bhatia 2007). For a broader discussion of the concept of brownness among Latinos and Asian Americans, see Eileen O'Brien's (2005) provocative analysis of the "racial middle."…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 68%

Lived Hybridity: Second-Generation Identity Construction Through College Festival

Brettell

Nibbs

2009

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Recent research suggests that the children of recent immigrants, the so-called second generation, no longer choose to emphasize one identity over the other but that their identities are more fluid and multifaceted. College campuses are often the arenas in which a new hybrid identity develops. This article addresses how South Asian American college students make sense of and control their various identities through the celebration of Diwali, an event sponsored each year by the Indian Students Association (ISA) on a college campus in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. South Asian students use performative space to help them make sense of their backgrounds in ways that both differentiate them from and allow for association with the majority student population. They also use this space as a safe place for "coming out," that is, for communicating their hybrid identity to their parents. This hybrid identity is expressed through a discourse of "brownness" that marks something distinctive and that reflects the process by which the children of immigrants choose among a range of identities to create integrated selves. The campus Diwali festival is the expression of those selves.

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“…Asian-Americans experience discrimination in many different ways, including hate crimes, racial profiling, and barriers to college admission (Dhingra, 2003). The most well-known form of discrimination is stereotyping.…”

Section: Model Minority Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…AsianAmericans use financial and academic success to gain social desirability where they are inherently unable to achieve it, being non-white. The social ceiling, or the symbolic barrier to minority groups achieving social parity with whites, is present because of physical differences that are present between Asian-Americans and whites (Dhingra, 2003). In Dhingra's 2003 collection of interviews, Tammy, an Asian-American actress, speaks about this.…”

Section: Model Minority Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Diversity within Asian Americans: Barriers to the Public Discussion of Discrimination

Ing

2015

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This purpose of this thesis is to discuss barriers to the public discussion of discrimination against Asian-Americans. The literature addresses three major barriers: model minority status, portrayal in media, and cultural desire to assimilate. This thesis discusses how Asian-Americans contain generational, ethnic, and immigration-based diversity that complicates these barriers, while also positing that diversity itself presents a barrier. This project concludes with a brief discussion of "intra-ethnic othering," the discrimination that occurs between Asian subgroups, as another barrier to public discussion of Asian-American discrimination. DIVERSITY WITHIN 3 Diversity within Asian Americans: Barriers to the Public Discussion of DiscriminationIn the 1980's, there was a significant increase in the number of racial harassment cases on college and university campuses. Delucchi et al (1996) published a study on the repercussions of one such case in the College Student Journal. In a University of California dorm room, a white student physically assaulted a Vietnamese-American student. The assault was so aggressive that the victim required extensive medical attention. His attacker was booked by the police but released the next day. As for the student, both the incident and outcome upset him so much that he went to the Asian Student Coalition (ASC) for support. With the support of the ASC, the student approached the Dean of Students stating that the attack was racially charged, and that he had been the victim of a racial attack. The Dean, however, would only go as far as characterizing this incident as an "unfortunate act of violence," and was clear that the administration would not be investigating the matter further. Meanwhile, the attacker continued to harass the victim using threatening language that intimidated the student to the point that he had to employ a buddysystem for safety. The editorial section of the school newspaper after this incident became public, was filled with staunch political statements that the harassment of Asian-Americans was justified by their economic success as a minority group. One segment went as far as stating that Asian-Americans should not be perceived as disadvantaged because they were economically equivalent to whites. The consensus among editorials was that Asian-Americans should accept the treatment they faced because they did not qualify as a minority group.

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Being American Between Black and White: Second-Generation Asian American Professionals' Racial Identities

Cited by 38 publications

References 35 publications

Engendering Immigrant Psychology: An Intersectionality Perspective

Engendering Immigrant Psychology: An Intersectionality Perspective

Lived Hybridity: Second-Generation Identity Construction Through College Festival

Diversity within Asian Americans: Barriers to the Public Discussion of Discrimination

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