“Asians for Black Lives, Not Asians for Asians”: Building Southeast Asian American and Black Solidarity

Lee, Stacey J.; Xiong, Choua; Pheng, Linda M.; Vang, Mai Neng

doi:10.1111/aeq.12354

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“…Panethnic or interracial Asian American youth spaces can also be sites of radical, organized resistance, where Asian American youth can engage with other youth of color and challenge structural racism (Abad 2021;Kwon 2013; S. J. Lee et al 2020). Co-ethnic community-based spaces can also foster critical youth development (Das Gupta 2019; Pheng and Xiong 2022), but the literature suggests that without a focus on social justice, these spaces may reproduce dominant narratives about ethnicity (e.g., ethnic authenticity) and race (Doerr and Lee 2010;Du 2011).…”

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“…W. A. Wong 2010). Panethnic or interracial Asian American youth spaces can also be sites of radical, organized resistance, where Asian American youth can engage with other youth of color and challenge structural racism (Abad 2021; Kwon 2013; S. J. Lee et al 2020).…”

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“…One recent survey showed that in September 2020, Asian Americans had the highest level of support for Black Lives Matter among non-Black Americans, at 69 percent expressing support (this survey was conducted in English and did not include Indigenous respondents; Thomas and Horowitz 2020). Asian American youth strongly support defunding the police and other demands that Black Americans have organized for (Fu et al 2019; S. J. Lee et al 2020; Pheng and Xiong 2022; D.…”

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“…Asian American youth strongly support defunding the police and other demands that Black Americans have organized for (Fu et al 2019; S. J. Lee et al 2020;Pheng and Xiong 2022;D. Wong 2020).…”

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“Asians Are the Least Troublemaker”: Navigating Racial In-betweenness in Korean American Community-based Spaces

Park¹

2023

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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While Asian Americans have long been positioned as a deserving and productive racial foil to problematic and unworthy Black and Latinx communities, in recent years, they have been more frequently portrayed as actively politicized in opposition to other communities of color. Despite this portrayal in the media, social science research reveals a much more complicated portrait of Asian American racial positioning that explores how Asian Americans diversely navigate their racial in-betweenness, or what Leslie Bow calls racial interstitiality. Contributing to this research, this article analyzes how Korean Americans, as a racialized ethnic group, engage with Whiteness and their own racial position within co-ethnic community spaces. Drawing from a multi-sited ethnography of a Korean language school and an ethnic supplementary academy (called hagwon) in the Chicago suburbs, the article argues that co-ethnic community spaces are active sites of racialization that both challenge and reproduce White dominance. In these spaces, Korean Americans forged counter-narratives for their children but simultaneously reified dominant narratives relating to Whiteness, anti-Blackness, and Asian Americans. The findings strengthen scholarly understandings of how Asian Americans understand their racial identities in relation to others, the role of community institutions in racialization, and how the damaging logics of White supremacy can seep into non-White spaces.

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2023

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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“…Similarly, Castagno and Brayboy (2008) as well as McCarty and Lee (2014) have examined how culturally responsive or sustaining pedagogy can be transformed into culturally revitalizing pedagogy to meet the aspirations of Indigenous communities. From documenting students’ experiences of being racialized based on their ethnic (Rodriguez, 2020) or religious identities (Abu El-Haj, 2015; Sarroub, 2005) to examining how cross-group solidarities emerge (Lee et al, 2020), the field continues to unsettle and disrupt racial and social class hierarchies (Aydarova, 2019). Attending to the role of educational institutions in upholding systems of racial injustice globally (Abu El-Haj, 2020), anthropologists have grappled with efforts to foster transitional and transformative justice (Bellino et al, 2017).…”

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