AAPI Voices

[...] .” If successful, affirmative action policies across the board will be deemed illegal. Asian Americans, as racial minorities, become an important group in these legal maneuvers; presumably the [...]

[...] and barriers exist within our communities. Relatedly, it perpetuates the stereotype that all Asian Americans are supposed to be math and science whizzes. This, in turn, feeds into the model minority [...]

[...] BY JERRY Z. PARK AND JOSHUA TOM Are Asian Americans in a state of religious confusion? And are Asian American Protestants fleeing their religion? [...]

[...] deeply complex undercurrents. Paradoxically, in the same CDC dataset used in these analyses, Asian Americans actually report less serious psychological distress, less feelings of [...]

[...] I was permanently damaged. Especially as an Asian American, the model minority myth has made mental health something difficult to talk about. It’s been difficult for me to bring it up with my [...]

[...] our academic and public health institutions. We have to demand that we have more data on mental health among communities of color, including Asian Americans. By speaking up, by sharing our stories, [...]

[...] identity crises. But what does the research say?  Do multiracial individuals have more mental health problems than those not identified as such?  Early research that was poorly designed said [...]

[...] Rodgers was reportedly under the care of multiple therapists, I’m not sure that every mental health professional has the perspective to identify the stages of identity development that are [...]

[...] , and 398.3 million in the 2014 estimates. Notably, however, the projections for the Asian American population were revised significantly upwards in just two years.  For example, the old projections [...]

[...] U.S. population. No individual state has Asian American legislators at parity with its Asian American population, although Hawaii comes close, with only a 3% representation gap. Asian Americans are [...]

[...] does not intend to make it a “bully pulpit” issue). But what about the rest of the Asian American population? Where do they stand on gun control? Until recently, there was no survey data of [...]

[...] reject affirmative action. But we reasoned that maybe a specific segment of the Asian American population might strongly reject affirmative action, thereby accounting for the political [...]

[...] . These figures can grant us insight into the negotiation of cultural identities by second-generation Asian Americans, especially as these identities change over time. For the second-generation [...]

[...] /tEnumForm.shtml The Census constructed an array of national origin categories to enumerate Asian groups (e.g, Japanese, Koreans, Samoans, Malays, Hindus, Filipino, and Polynesians) beginning with [...]

[...] are not.   Who is Cashing in? If you look at STEM participation among the largest Asian groups, the numbers may surprise you. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 22.2% of  [...]

[...] in the prior year. Clearly, given the 15.8% figure from the National Survey on Drug Use, other Asian groups fare far better. Going beyond national origin differences, there are some other conundrums [...]

[...] U.S. This geographic area stretched from East Asia to Afghanistan, essentially terminating Asian immigration to the U.S. This legislation would remain in place until the Mc-Carren Walter Act of 1952 [...]

[...] multiracial political attitudes, Natalie Masuoka (2008) found that multiracials (including Asian multiracials) were more likely than whites to support affirmative action and racial redistricting in [...]

[...] as white and Asian. According to the Census Bureau, there were a total of 2.6 million multiracial Asian Americans in 2010, or about 1 in every 7 Asian Americans broadly defined.  The majority of [...]