Asian Americans were engaged in an electoral realignment long before Kamala Harris was added to the 2020 Democratic ticket.
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Black and Asian American communities have been portrayed as in opposition to each other. Multiracial Kamala Harris, both Asian American and Black, represents the potential for coalition building.
While the debates about Kamala Harris’ multiraciality may seem new, they are similar to the commentary other high-profile mixed-race people in the US have received about their racial identities.
The census will likely count fewer Black Americans, Indigenous peoples, Asian Americans and Americans of Hispanic or Latino origin than there actually are.
How should Asian Americans respond to rising anti-Asian racist actions? History may offer some lessons during the pandemic.
Fear of COVID-19 has sparked some to react with violent racism towards Asian Americans and Canadians. This is not the first time fear of disease has led to outbreaks of violent anti-Asian racism.
Researchers have found a way to encourage cervical cancer screenings and vaccinations in Korean American women. Might their findings also work in other underrepresented populations?
Overt racism is easy to spot. But more subtle forms based on false narratives can be equally dehumanizing – and it’s no joke.
Marginalized groups said that they had experienced discrimination at the workplace, at the doctor and with the police.
For children born in the shadows of overseas US military bases to local women, their citizenship status has long been contested.
The South is changing, with more Asian and Latino immigrants moving in and diversifying a region that was once black and white. Stacey Abrams knows that Democrats can win these rural voters.
Test prep is a prominent feature in Asian-American communities, which helps explain recent gains that Asian-Americans made in the SAT and ACT college entrance exams, a higher education scholar argues.
A researcher set out to interview Asian-Americans on the front lines of the debate about race-conscious affirmative action in higher education. What she found is that the policy is poorly understood.
Sandra Oh’s recent Emmy nomination for ‘Killing Eve’ is a sign of appreciation of her work but also a symbol of hope for the author as a former actor and as an academic.
Asian-Americans are extremely diverse. Fear of giving the government personal data may make it more difficult to provide the right educational, health care and other services to specific populations.
Scholars argue that the complaint of bias against Harvard reflects a flawed understanding of affirmative action policies.
Asian Americans are the wealthiest, best-educated and fastest-growing segment of voters in the US. They are also increasingly voting Democratic.
Childhood poverty is growing among some groups of Asian Americans.
Asian-American kids are often viewed as high-achieving and smart. Does such a stereotype contribute to their academic success?
Not all Asian-Americans are high-achieving model minorities. What happens when the myth of Asian disadvantage hurts some of the most marginalized students in the US?
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Professor of U.S. Immigration Studies, Amherst College
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Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies, Arizona State University
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Professor of Asian American Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Adjunct Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty, USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Cultures, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
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Associate Professor of Education, University of Maryland
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Professor of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington
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Adjunct professor, Women's Studies, Lakehead University, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor Affiliate, School of Education, Colorado State University
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Professor & Chair of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Post Doctoral Fellow, Colorado State University
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Professor of Psychology, University of St. Thomas
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Smith Professor of Equity and Inclusion in Business, Queen's University, Ontario