Racism Is Not Enough: Minority Coalition Building in San Francisco, Seattle, and Vancouver

Kim, Jae Yeon

doi:10.1017/s0898588x20000115

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“…If oversimplification leads to myopic determinism, paying close attention to distinct historical processes, social dynamics, and elite strategic behavior across these groups may be the solution. For example, J. Y. Kim (2020b) shows that, despite their shared “Oriental” racial status, Chinese ethnics across the United States and Canada in the 1960s and 1970s did not all pursue a race-based coalition strategy to fight gentrification and demand affordable housing in their neighborhoods. Race-based coalitions appeared in San Francisco and Seattle, but not in Vancouver, where a cross-racial coalition between the Chinese and southern and eastern Europeans materialized.…”

Section: Analogizing From Blacks To Other Groupsmentioning

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Rewiring Linked Fate: Bringing Back History, Agency, and Power

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Kim²

2021

Perspect. polit.

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Linked fate, the concept introduced by Dawson almost three decades ago, reoriented the study of racism and political behavior in the United States. The scholarship traditionally had focused on the racial psychology of whites and how racism seeps into their political views and actions. Dawson proposed the Black utility heuristic theory and linked fate, its associated measure, to investigate the political behavior of Blacks, the minority group most harmed by racism. Since then, linked fate has become a ubiquitous variable of interest in research on minority group politics. Yet the research program around linked fate is due for some extension. Most studies gloss over the fact that the Black utility heuristic theory is historically and socially conditional. We call for bringing elite-level agency and group-level social practices back into the literature to clarify the macro- and meso-level conditions under which a group’s racial status translates into linked fate at the individual level. Greater inquiry into these dynamics is not only warranted but also has broad implications for the research on racial and ethnic politics.

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Section: Analogizing From Blacks To Other Groupsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rewiring Linked Fate: Bringing Back History, Agency, and Power

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Kim²

2021

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“…These settlers founded the Chinese Benevolent Association, an umbrella organization made up of Chinese family and regional associations, in San Francisco in 1882 and in Seattle in 1892. Since the 1960s, these Chinese communities, both in San Francisco and Seattle, have been forming coalitions with other Asian ethnic groups to deal with their common political issues, such as gentrification and affordable housing, and the International Examiner and Asian Week emerged in these historical contexts (Kim 2020).…”

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Integrating human and machine coding to measure political issues in ethnic newspaper articles

Kim

2021

J Comput Soc Sc

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The voices of racial minority groups have rarely been examined systematically with large-scale text analysis in political science. This study fills such a gap by applying an integrated classification framework to the analysis of the commonalities and differences in political issues that appeared in 78,305 articles from Asian American and African American newspapers from the 1960s to the 1980s. The automated text classification shows that Asian American newspapers focused on promoting collective gains more often than African American newspapers. Conversely, African American newspapers concentrated on preventing collective losses more than Asian American newspapers. The content analysis demonstrates that the issue priorities varied between the corpora, especially with respect to policy contexts. Gaining access to government resources was a more urgent issue for Asian Americans, while reducing or ending state violence, such as police brutality, was a more pressing matter for African Americans. It also helped avoid extreme interpretations of the machine coding, as the misalignment of political agendas between the two corpora widened up to 10 times when the training data were measured using the minimum, rather than the maximum, reliability threshold.

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“…13 We also invite engagement with the complexities of intracommunal relations or how both African American and Asian American communities are not monolithic. 14 Many sources document African American and Filipina/o encounters on the West and East coasts and emphasize that those interactions were mainly based on the needs of capitalthat African Americans found themselves in competition with ethnic groups that had already established working relationships with white industry on the coasts. Hiring marginalized workers was at the whims of white workers.…”

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confidence: 99%