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

“…1When 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). We also decided to use an inclusive term because all Asian-bodied individuals, regardless of citizenship status or fluency in English, were subject to anti-Asian sentiment during the COVID-19.…”