Second-Generation Asian American Pan-Ethnic Identity: Pluralized Meanings of a Racial Label

Park, Jerry Z.

doi:10.1525/sop.2008.51.3.541

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“…Inclusion of Asian-origin subgroups. Park (2008) found a subtle hierarchy within the label "Asian American" such that East Asian-origin subgroups (e.g., Chinese) come more readily to mind (i.e., are more prototypical) than Southeast (e.g., Vietnamese) and South (e.g., Indian)…”

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High-Status Exemplars and the Misperception of the Asian-White Wealth Gap

Kuo

Kraus

Richeson

2019

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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In this research, we test the central hypothesis that perceptions of Asian Americans as a high-status “model minority” lead to overestimates of the extent of wealth equality between Asian and White Americans. We test this hypothesis across three studies that manipulate the salience of high- or low-status Asian American exemplars before soliciting estimates of Asian-White wealth equality. A meta-analysis of the results revealed that participants significantly overestimated Asian-White wealth equality and that making low- versus high-status Asian American exemplars salient decreased this tendency. These data suggest that activation of high-status Asian American exemplars elicits greater overestimates of Asian-White wealth equality, obscuring existing wealth disparities relative to White Americans and significantly downplaying the economic inequality that burdens a subset of Asian Americans from less prototypical ethnic backgrounds. The findings echo recent calls by sociologists and political scientists for a more nuanced understanding of the diversity and economic inequality among Asian American communities.

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High-Status Exemplars and the Misperception of the Asian-White Wealth Gap

Kuo

Kraus

Richeson

2019

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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“…The social construction of ethnic categories influences identity formation as well as personal and social understandings about group differences and similarities (Park 2008). Collective identity helps to preserve group interests, but how groups define themselves may be contested among group members.…”

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A new conceptualization of ethnicity for social epidemiologic and health equity research

Ford

Harawa

2010

Social Science & Medicine

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Although social stratification persists in the US, differentially influencing the well-being of ethnically defined groups, ethnicity concepts and their implications for health disparities remain under-examined. Ethnicity is a complex social construct that influences personal identity and group social relations. Ethnic identity, ethnic classification systems, the groupings that compose each system and the implications of assignment to one or another ethnic category are place-, time- and context-specific. In the US, racial stratification uniquely shapes expressions of and understandings about ethnicity. Ethnicity is typically invoked via the term, ‘race/ethnicity’; however, it is unclear whether this heralds a shift away from racialization or merely extends flawed racial taxonomies to populations whose cultural and phenotypic diversity challenge traditional racial classification. We propose that ethnicity be conceptualized as a two-dimensional, context-specific, social construct with an attributional dimension that describes group characteristics (e.g., culture, nativity) and a relational dimension that indexes a group’s location within a social hierarchy (e.g., minority vs. majority status). This new conceptualization extends prior definitions in ways that facilitate research on ethnicization, social stratification and health inequities. While federal ethnic and racial categories are useful for administrative purposes such as monitoring the inclusion of minorities in research, and traditional ethnicity concepts (e.g., culture) are useful for developing culturally appropriate interventions, our relational dimension of ethnicity is useful for studying the relationships between societal factors and health inequities. We offer a new conceptualization of ethnicity and outline next steps for employing socially meaningful measures of ethnicity in empirical research. Ethnicity is both increasingly complex and increasingly central to social life; therefore, improving its conceptualization and measurement is crucial for advancing research on ethnic health inequities.

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“…In the decades following the 1960s, representations revolving around the concept of model minority continued to pop up in major popular press publications, but the approach witnessed noticeable changes. To understand their significance, it is important to note that the notion of model minority was frequently criticized for the way it narrows the Asian American identity into 'pan-ethnicity'-that is, instead of being viewed as an ethnically diverse group consisting of different backgrounds, Asian American immigrantsespecially those belonging to the second generation onwards, tend to feel that their unique cultural heritage is often neglected (Park, 2008). During the 1980s, various articles began to acknowledge the dynamic nature of the Asian American population (Bell, 1985;Barringer, 1990).…”

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‘Fresh Off the Boat’ and the Model Minority Stereotype: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis

Hang¹,

Thanh²

2018

JFS

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This project studies how the American sitcom Fresh Off the Boat performs the model minority discourse. The performance, in line with the Foucauldian tradition of discourse analysis, is understood based on the networks of events and meanings that have rendered the model minority stereotype intelligible. The study informs that the model minority stereotype entered the discourse on Asian Americans through mainstream media’s rationalization of Asian Americans’ economic success in 1960s, marking a significant change in social perceptions of Asian Americans. It demonstrates that the discursive status of the stereotype has been conditioned by three power networks namely the black-white paradigm, the Asian American family, and the stereotype-based humor in American sitcoms. Fresh Off the Boat, the authors argue, participates effectively in shaping contemporary model minority discourse as it employs the three power networks in an approach more realistic and humane than mere oversimplification of Asian American experience.

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Second-Generation Asian American Pan-Ethnic Identity: Pluralized Meanings of a Racial Label

Cited by 77 publications

References 24 publications

High-Status Exemplars and the Misperception of the Asian-White Wealth Gap

High-Status Exemplars and the Misperception of the Asian-White Wealth Gap

A new conceptualization of ethnicity for social epidemiologic and health equity research

‘Fresh Off the Boat’ and the Model Minority Stereotype: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis

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