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A multi-modal approach to understanding Asian American political participation
(2023-04-20) Lawrence, Cornelia Elizabeth; Shaw, Daron R., 1966-; Philpot, Tasha; Jessee, Stephen; Wong, Janelle
This project aims to enhance our understanding of political participation within the United States by more carefully and systematically examining political participation within the Asian American community. Previously, prominent theories of political participation have been created with Anglo-Americans in mind, resulting in incomplete or unsatisfactory applications to racial and ethnic minority groups. By updating our understanding of what participation looks like and by formulating a racially aware theory, I seek to improve upon these previous explanations of the participatory habits of voters. I first expand upon the Resource model offered by Verba, Schlozman, and Brady (1995), both by updating the conceptualization of the dependent variable, political participation, to reflect recent technological advances, and including key variables I believe that are missing from the original. My first empirical chapter compares the original Resource model to the updated model, I name the Unified Resource Model, via an Asian American survey sample. There I find strong support for my suggested changes, before speaking with members of the Asian American community via focus groups in my second empirical chapter. Finally, in my third empirical chapter, I retest the Unified Resource Model in a hybrid quantitative-qualitative online community. Throughout this study, generational status and nativity status are significant predictors of the numbers of acts one is likely to participate in politically, and while organizational involvement behaved similarly in 2016, qualitative research suggests that this may no longer be true. All three empirical chapters support the expanded conceptualization of political participation to include social media usage.
Achievement vs. Adjustment: The Paradoxical Effect of the Model Minority Myth on Asian American Students
(2021-05) Jaavvadi, Praveena
This study aims to understand the differences between White and Asian students according to a specific set of psychological processes and role the internalization of the model minority myth plays. In my thesis I first examined what it means to be Asian American by looking at where the term first came from, the differences between race and ethnicity, and the diversity within the group. Then I examined the model minority’s myth origins and looked into the effect the model minority myth has been found to have on Asian American development. Then I examined the achievement adjustment paradox and the mental health outcomes of Asian Americans to understand the current problem facing Asian Americans. After this, I explained my study, the psychological processes that I was studying, the results, and analyzed them. I found that belonging plays a particularly powerful role for Asian American students, Asian American students score lower on hope for the future in comparison to White students, and the internalization of the model minority myth can act as a buffer against negative feelings. I explained that belonging and the internalization of the model minority myth may be playing a particularly influential role because there is not a clear understanding or language to describe the Asian American experience.
Asian American Crossroads Lecture Series Spring 2020 Save the Dates
(Center for Asian American Studies, 2020) Center for Asian American Studies
Asian American Crossroads Lecture Series: Dr. Eric Tang
(Center for Asian American Studies, 2021-04-06) Center for Asian American Studies
Asian American Crossroads Lecture Series: Manu Karuka
(Center for Asian American Studies, 2019-05-06) Center for Asian American Studies
Asian American Crossroads Lecture Series: Vivian Huang
(Center for Asian American Studies, 2022-04-27) Center for Asian American Studies
The Asian American Misinformation Machine: Investigating the Impacts of the Changing Media Ecosystem
(2023-05) Xu, Hannah
In the aftermath of the global COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen many changes to the ways in which we communicate, and these new developments have caused integral shifts in the media landscape. This has given rise to new ways of processing news, and there has specifically been a shift towards increasing usage of social media and multipurpose social platforms. With this, comes the many dangers of misinformation, and one question this thesis will attempt to answer is how misinformation can be propagated through an everchanging media ecosystem, and how this can be investigated specifically through social media research. Many minority communities tend to become echo chambers of ideas that are proliferated by social media, and the lack of accountability for information put forth on these platforms allows small instances of misinformation to become widespread. My thesis will cover the phenomenon of misinformation within the Asian American community, as we’ve seen this community uniquely affected by the consequences of misinformation post-COVID, and will aim to prove why this community presents a unique lens through which to investigate this phenomenon. The first task is to understand what about this community makes it so important to social media research and to investigate what factors make this community more susceptible to misinformation, and more likely to propagate it. Not only is this community historically underrepresented, social media research itself is a relatively new field that is constantly evolving with new media forms and platforms. The next task is to investigate the means by which misinformation might be propagated within the Asian American community by analyzing existing research and primary sources, in order to discover how this misinformation machine works. Finally, I will attempt to identify what might be missing from current research that could help shed light on the propagation of misinformation and the ensuing consequences.
Asian American Solidarities in a "Post-"pandemic World
(Center for Asian American Studies, 2021-09-09) Center for Asian American Studies
Asian American Studies of Race Colonialism, and Diaspora: A Public Talk by Dr. Lisa Lowe
(Center for Asian American Studies, 2021-10-24) Center for Asian American Studies
Asian Americans and body image dissatisfaction: contributing factors for dissatisfaction and suggestions for how counselors can work with clients
(2010-05) Mann, Gloria G.; Cokley, Kevin O. (Kevin O'Neal), 1969-; Rochlen, Aaron
The Asian American population has increased almost ten percent in the past decade, marking the second highest growth rate of any racial group in the United States. Because of this increase, researchers need to be more informed about current issues that exist among this population, specifically within Asian American women and body satisfaction. This review seeks to explore the current research that exists on Asian American women and body satisfaction. Potential causes and explanations for why this population may deal with body satisfaction are then explored. These include historical causes, peer pressure, familial pressure, and media influence. The review then looks at methods counselors can use to effectively work with the Asian American women population. Finally, some recommendations for future studies are offered. Through this review, researchers and counselors can be better informed to work with the Asian American population.
A Case for Holding On
(2021) Khan, Roshan
Catch-up Café
(Center for Asian American Studies, 2020-05-06) Center for Asian American Studies
A conditional indirect effect of language brokering on adjustment among Chinese and Korean American adolescents : the roles of perceived maternal sacrifice, respect for the mother, and mother-child open communication
(2013-05) Shen, Yishan; Kim, Su Yeong
Asian American adolescents, such as Chinese and Korean American adolescents, often language broker for their immigrant parents. This study examines how language brokering influences parent-child relationships and adolescents' psychological adjustment in Asian-American families. Using a two-wave sample of Chinese (n = 237; average age = 14.65, SD = .68) and Korean (n = 262; average age = 14.72, SD = .69) American adolescents, this study examined a culturally relevant conditional mechanism through which language brokering may contribute to lower levels of internalizing/externalizing problems. Results suggested that language brokering for the mother was associated with perceived maternal sacrifice, which was in turn associated with respect for the mother, which was eventually associated with lower levels of externalizing problems (but not internalizing problems) in the adolescents. Moreover, the indirect effect was conditional on the level of mother-child open communication. With a lower level of open communication, the indirect effect of language brokering on externalizing problems became stronger. Results indicate that interventions designed to reduce Asian American adolescent language brokers' externalizing problems can target their perception of parental sacrifice and their respect for parents, and that this approach may be especially effective for adolescents experiencing a low level of parent-child open communication. At the same time, for these families with low levels of parent-child open communication, encouraging more open communication may be an additional way to intervene.
Constructing and curating the Asian American identity within Asian American art exhibitions
(2021-05-07) Li, Philana; Chambers, Eddie
Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art showcases artwork from artists within the Afro-Caribbean Chinese community and Asian American diaspora. I will primarily focus on artists who have immigrated to America, joining the Asian American community. At the California African-American Museum, the show ran from September 15, 2017, to February 25, 2018, and at the Chinese American Museum, the show ran from September 15, 2017, to March 11, 2018. Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art serves as a case study to animate the different components of the Asian American identity. While several artists within this community solely practice art within the Caribbean, I focus on the artists who moved to the United States as they are included in the Chinese-American diaspora.
Dating while Asian
(Center for Asian American Studies, 2020-03-05) Center for Asian American Studies
Faculty Development Program Speaker Series: Dr. Lina Chhun
(Center for Asian American Studies, 2021-03-22) Center for Asian American Studies
Faith and chai : exploring sense of belonging and intersections of cultural and spiritual identities in South Asian American college students
(2019-08-08) Samuel, Justin Thankachan; Reddick, Richard, 1972-; Jabbar, Huriya; Saenz, Victor B; Gururaj, Suchitra V
South Asian Americans (SAAs) are a burgeoning subpopulation in higher education settings. SAAs are not a monolithic group; they are affiliated with a variety of linguistic, immigration, socioeconomic, and spiritual identities. Furthermore, SAA spiritual identities have been increasingly minoritized and racialized in post-9/11 America, creating challenges unique to this group. The purpose of this study was to explore how SAA collegians experience a sense of belonging and navigate the intersections of their cultural and spiritual identities on campus. The point-of-entry model for Asian American identity consciousness (Accapadi, 2012) and the model of belonging for privileged and minoritized students (Vaccaro & Newman, 2016) were used as conceptual frameworks to ground the study. 12 SAA college students participated in this qualitative, phenomenological inquiry. Interviews, photovoice technique, and journal entries were used as instruments to collect data. In considering the larger phenomenon of SAA collegians’ identity navigation and experience of belonging, three key findings emerged from the data. They included: (1) family serving as a primary source of support; (2) student organizations being a critical vehicle for spiritual identity exploration and belonging; and (3) a universal understanding that SAA solidarity is essential for community advocacy. Implications from the study were incorporated into a conceptual model and involved a need for further research on SAA collegians; institutional support for recruitment of SAA faculty and staff members and ongoing cultural competency training for higher education professionals; and promotion of community-building among SAA collegians.
Formosa, TX
(2012-12) Rutngamlug, Rachun Roy; Howard, Donald Wayne; Ramirez-Berg, Charles; Garrison, Andy; Lewis, Richard
The following report is a description of the pre-production, production and post-production of the short film “Formosa, TX”, made in Marfa and Coupland, Texas in 2012. The film is a study of living Asian American in small town Texas.
From Print To Screen: Asian American Romantic Comedies And Sociopolitical Influences
(2019-05-01) Yu, Karena; Mallapragada, Madhavi
In this thesis, I examine how sociopolitical contexts and production cultures have affected how original Asian American narrative texts have been adapted into mainstream romantic comedies. I begin by defining several terms used throughout my thesis: race, ethnicity, Asian American, and humor/comedy. Then, I give a history of Asian American media portrayals, as these earlier images have profoundly affected the ways in which Asian Americans are seen in media today. Finally, I compare the adaptation of humor in two case studies, Flower Drum Song (1961) which was created by Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Crazy Rich Asians (2018) which was directed by Jon M. Chu. From this analysis, I argue that both seek to undercut the perpetual foreigner myth, but the difference in sociocultural incentives and control of production have resulted in more nuanced portrayals of some Asian Americans in the latter case. However, its tendency to push towards the mainstream has limited its ability to challenge stereotyped representations, and it continues to privilege an Americentric perspective.
Great expectations : narratives of second generation Asian Indian American college students about academic achievement and related intergenerational communication
(2012-08) Kahlon, Amardeep Kaur; Reddick, Richard, 1972-; Sharpe, Edwin R.; Ovando, Martha N.; Saenz, Victor B.; Accapadi, Mamta
Asian Indian Americans are a highly successful subset of Asian Americans. According to a 2012 Pew Center report, this population has the highest level of degree attainment among Asian Americans as well as the highest median income among Asian Americans ("The Rise of Asian Americans," 2012). However, there is a cloak of invisibility surrounding this population. There is little research on how second-generation Asian Indian Americans navigate the expectations of academic excellence and cultural adherence in their relationships with their first-generation parents. There is limited knowledge and understanding of this population that is burdened by family expectations, community expectations, institutional expectations, and their own self-expectations of academic excellence. The paucity of research on this population creates the invisible minority where students’ needs may be ignored based on unfounded assumptions on part of the community and the institution. This phenomenological study adds to the sparse literature on Asian Indian Americans by exploring the intergenerational relationships of Asian Indian American undergraduate students in a narrowly focused area of academic choices and academic performance. This study examined students’ perceptions of the communication between first-generation parents and second-generation children who are currently enrolled at Southern State University. Further, this study examined the stress generated by the intergenerational relationships and the coping strategies employed by the students for dealing with the aforementioned stress. Findings from this study indicate that first-generation parents stress academic excellence and enrollment in certain majors based on their own experiences as new immigrants as well as to uphold the honor and prestige of the family. While the expectations of academic excellence from parents create stress for the students, the students remain grateful to their parents for instilling such values in them. However, the findings reveal that students felt stress from the expectation of excellence from the community, family, and institution to perform well. The findings of varying levels of intergenerational issues suggest that the parent-child relationships in this population were complex and non-linear.