The Future of Asian American Politics

Negotiating Asian American identities: Collaborative self-study of Korean immigrant scholars’ reading group on AsianCrit.

“…1 When we refer to the Asian American community in this article, we are referring to any Asian who lives in the United States including those who reside on a permanent or long-term basis with or without proper authorization (Aoki & Takeda, 2009). Such an inclusive definition is to acknowledge the Asian American community's history suffered from the "past efforts to prevent Asian immigrants from naturalizing" (Aoki & Takeda, 2009, p. viii).…”

Asian Americans in Higher Education: Charting New Realities

“…Where research indicates that Asian Americans are high achieving, it typically tends to occur more frequently among East Asian and South Asian Americans, although recent scholarship also troubles notions of achievement based on class and religion among these groups (Asher, ; Joshi, ; Lew, , ). However, rather than being skewed toward the higher end of the spectrum as the model minority myth leads many to believe, AAPI educational attainment typically remains bimodal, clustering in two different groups, with large numbers of high performers at one end and large numbers of relatively low performers at the other (Aoki & Takeda, ; Chew‐Ogi & Ogi, ). In gauging educational attainment by those AAPI subethnic groups, Figure makes visually clear the bimodal educational attainment levels of those among Asian Indian, Chinese, Pakistani, and Korean in contrast to Samoan, Tongan, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian, Hmong, Laotian, and Cambodian groups.…”