Are Asians the New Blacks?

Kim, Claire Jean

doi:10.1017/s1742058x18000243

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“…But as nonblacks, Asians have escaped centuries of slavery, the legal codification of racial inferiority, and the intergenerational disadvantage that blacks have suffered as a result (Lee and Bean 2010;Wu 2015). Asians may be a disadvantaged minority relative to whites, but they are an advantaged minority relative to blacks (Kim 2018).…”

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The Mere Mention of Asians in Affirmative Action

Lee¹,

Tran²

2019

SocScience

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Presumed competent, U.S. Asians evince exceptional educational outcomes but lack the cultural pedigree of elite whites that safeguard them from bias in the labor market. In spite of their nonwhite minority status, Asians also lack the legacy of disadvantage of blacks that make them eligible beneficiaries of affirmative action. Their labor market disadvantage coupled with their exclusion from affirmative action programs place Asians in a unique bind: do they support policies that give preferences to blacks but exclude them? Given their self-and group interests, this bind should make Asians unlikely to do so. We assess whether this is the case by comparing their attitudes to those of whites, blacks, and Hispanics. Drawing on a novel three-way framing experiment embedded in the 2016 National Asian American Survey, we document how the "mere mention of Asians" in affirmative action frames affects support for the preferential hiring and promotion of blacks. Support shifts in different ways among all groups depending on the mere mention of Asians as either victims of affirmative action alongside whites or as victims of discrimination alongside blacks. Moreover, among Asians, support for affirmative action differs significantly by immigrant generation: first-generation Asians express the weakest support.

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The Mere Mention of Asians in Affirmative Action

Lee¹,

Tran²

2019

SocScience

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“…The final question is, what is the role and consequence of internalized racism within the Asian American community? It creates barriers for the Asian American community to types of employment (Yuen, 2016), access to mental health services (Choi et al, 2017;David, 2013;Museus, 2013), and political representation (Kim, 1999(Kim, , 2004(Kim, , 2018Lowe, 1996). In short, engaging in internalized racism reveals not only the legacy of racial oppression but also the perpetuation of the systems of inequality that promote white supremacy.…”

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Understanding the use of “twinkie,” “banana,” and “FOB”: Identifying the origin, role, and consequences of internalized racism within Asian America

Trieu¹

2019

Sociology Compass

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Where does internalized racism come from? How is it sustained and perpetuated within the Asian American community? What is the role and consequence of internalized racism within the Asian American community? This article reviews the existing literature to map the origin, role, and consequences of internalized racism among Asian Americans. Research on internalized racism must examine more than individual behaviors, otherwise it falls victim to conceiving of individuals as “racial dupes” (i.e., an individual who has been deceived into supporting existing racial hierarchies and systems of racial inequalities). However, the research should also veer away from an over emphasis on individual agency and resistance because doing so ignores the larger structural systems of inequality that exist, via colonial mentality and racialization, which influence individual behaviors. Future research on internalized racism must engage both perspectives to hold accountable the connection between broader racialization processes and everyday interactions driven by internalized racism.

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“…On the other hand, because African Americans and Hispanics exhibit lower test scores and grades yet are admitted at a higher rate than other groups, opponents of affirmative action point to a new wave of racial discrimination in which some minoritized groups are unjustly rewarded because of their race. This logic draws on the false equivalency of race and minoritized status (Kim 2018;Lee and Tran 2019).…”

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“…As non-Whites, Asians have experienced exclusion from migration, denial of U.S. citizenship, and a brutal legacy of anti-Asian violence, but as non-Blacks, they have been spared of centuries of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and the legal codification of racial inferiority (Bobo et al 1997;Lee and Bean 2010;Lew-Williams 2018). Umbrella terms like "minority" and "discrimination," however, elide these differences, thereby generating a false equivalency of minoritized status (Kim 2018;Lee and Tran 2019).…”

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Reckoning with Asian America and the New Culture War on Affirmative Action*

Lee

2021

Sociological Forum

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The latest battle over affirmative action in university admissions may soon reach the U.S. Supreme Court, and a ruling in the plaintiff's favor will end affirmative action in higher education across the nation. Asian Americans have taken center stage in this new culture war, fueled by the reigning narrative that they are victims of the policy who are unjustly penalized because of their race in spite of their competence. Opponents of affirmative action have effectively wielded competence-and more specifically hyper-competence-to mark moral deservingness as they push to retreat from race in the name of merit. The onset of Covid-19, however, has laid bare this impossibility for Asian Americans as the surge of hate incidents has affected one in eight Asian American adults in 2020, underscoring that presumed competence is no shield from xenophobia, and moral deservingness is no protection from anti-Asian hate. This project highlights how U.S. immigration law, science, and medicine do more than reflect social constructions of race, merit, and moral deservingness; they also produce and reproduce them. I close by arguing that reckoning with Asian America enables us to dismantle the tropes that propel the latest culture war on affirmative action, equips us to rewrite narratives about merit and moral deservingness, and invites us to re-imagine the linked fate and linked futures of Asian Americans and other minoritized groups.

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Are Asians the New Blacks?

Cited by 47 publications

References 8 publications

The Mere Mention of Asians in Affirmative Action

The Mere Mention of Asians in Affirmative Action

Understanding the use of “twinkie,” “banana,” and “FOB”: Identifying the origin, role, and consequences of internalized racism within Asian America

Reckoning with Asian America and the New Culture War on Affirmative Action*

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