Samuel D Museu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3424323 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel D Museu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel D |
| FAMILY NAME | Museu |
| SIGNATURE | MUSEU S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0507-301X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 272 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Examining the relationship between culturally engaging campus environments and civic propensity among diverse college students
The Misrepresented Minority: New Insights on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and the Implications for Higher Education
Understanding the Relationship between Culturally Engaging Campus Environments and College Students’ Academic Motivation
Low rates of college completion are a major national dilemma, and one way in which college campuses can increase degree attainment rates is by fostering higher levels of academic motivation among students. This study analyzed the relationship between culturally engaging campus environments and growth in college students’ academic motivation. The survey data from a sample of 704 undergraduates enrolled at a public four-year university on the East …
Analyzing the Relationship between Campus Environments and Academic Self-Efficacy in College
Low persistence and degree completion rates are of paramount concern for higher education researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. There is some evidence that students’ success in higher education is partially a function of their self-efficacy beliefs, but little is known about how campus environments shape academic self-efficacy. This study aimed to understand the relationship between culturally engaging campus environments and four-year co…
Relative Racialization and Asian American College Student Activism
In this qualitative study, Samuel D. Museus analyzes how relative racialization processes and their dynamics shape Asian American college students’ racial justice activism. The findings from his qualitative interviews with activist Asian American undergraduates reveal how these students perceived relative racialization processes as raising barriers to their racial justice efforts. Specifically, they saw these forms of racialization as promoting r…
A letter to future scholars in the struggle for justice
Symbols contested: An analysis of how symbols advance and hinder diversity, equity, and inclusion
“We Really Have to Come Together”: Understanding the Role of Solidarity in Asian American College Students’ Social Justice Activism and Advocacy
Structural oppression continues to be one of the most pressing problems in U.S. society, and college students have always played a major role in addressing systemic inequities. Yet, much remains to be learned about the experiences of students advocating social justice in higher education, and there is a paucity of research on Asian American students involved in such efforts. This study sought to understand how Asian American undergraduates unders…
The Centrality of Critical Agency: How Asian American College Students Develop Commitments to Social Justice
Context Systemic oppression is one of the most pressing problems in U.S. society. However, relatively little is known about the process by which college students become committed to social justice agendas. In addition, systematic empirical inquiries that examine how Asian American students, in particular, develop such commitments are difficult to find. Purpose/Research Question This inquiry was focused on understanding the process by which Asian …
Playing the game just enough: How racially minoritized faculty who advance equity conceptualize success in the neoliberal academy
Creating spaces of refusal in the neoliberal academy
Collective action has always been the heartbeat of social justice movements. However, existing systems pressure people to focus on hyper-competition and eradicate the ability to collectively resist systemic oppression. Unfortunately, education scholars rarely critically and theoretically analyze how they can and do collectively refuse neoliberal pressures in the context of higher education. In this article, we examine how neoliberal contexts indu…
How Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (Aanapisi) Initiatives Respond to Institutional Racism
In this study, authors conduct a qualitative inquiry grounded in a critical paradigm to understand how AANAPISI initiatives transcend their programmatic spaces to respond to racism within their respective institutional contexts. Analysis of 67 qualitative individual face-to-face interviews with faculty, administrators, and staff at five AANAPISI initiatives shed light on how these initiatives encounter institutional racism. The inquiry also detai…
Toward an Anti-Imperialistic Critical Race Analysis of the Model Minority Myth
Over the past three decades, many higher education scholars have engaged in efforts to counter the stereotype that Asian Americans achieve universal and unparalleled academic success. While most of these scholars adopt an anti-oppression approach, some researchers have claimed that this literature reinforces oppressive deficit paradigms. To understand this conflict in existing literature, the current authors utilize an anti-imperialistic approach…
What Is Deficit Thinking? An Analysis of Conceptualizations of Deficit Thinking and Implications for Scholarly Research
Humanizing scholarly resistance: Toward greater solidarity in social justice advocacy within the neoliberal academy
In this article, the author highlights how systemic forces both fuel assaults on scholar-activists in the present day and how oppressive systems can lead to scholars responding in ways that (sub)consciously amplify and spread this systemic violence. In doing so, he demonstrates how an increased understanding of these processes might inform the ways in which scholars can more effectively navigate this turbulent terrain. Building on this analysis, …
On the utility of Asian critical (AsianCrit) theory in the field of education
Despite the powerful influence of race and racism on the experiences and outcomes of Asian Americans in US education, coherent conceptual frameworks specifically focused on delineating how White supremacy shapes the lives of this population are difficult to find. The AsianCrit framework, grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the experiences and voices of Asian Americans, can begin filling this gap. In this article, we review an AsianCrit fra…
The Impact of Culturally Engaging Campus Environments on Sense of Belonging
The Impact of Culturally Engaging Campus Environments on Sense of Belonging Samuel D. Museus (bio), Varaxy Yi (bio), and Natasha Saelua (bio) Low rates of student persistence and degree completion are a major concern of colleges and universities across the United States. Of all incoming students enrolled at four-year institutions in 2005, less than 60% completed their bachelor’s degree within six years (National Center for Education Statistics [N…
How culturally engaging campus environments influence sense of belonging in college: An examination of differences between White students and students of color
Low persistence and degree completion rates continue to plague higher education, and students of color persist at even lower rates than their White peers. Research has linked greater sense of belonging in college to increased intentions to persist to graduation. However, research on how culturally relevant and responsive campus environments facilitate or hinder belonging and subsequent graduation among racially diverse college student populations…
A Qualitative Analysis of Multiracial Students’ Experiences With Prejudice and Discrimination in College
Mixed-race persons constitute a substantial and growing population in the United States. We examined multiracial college students’ experiences with prejudice and discrimination in college with conducted focus group interviews with 12 mixed-race participants and individual interviews with 22 mixed-race undergraduates to understand how they experienced prejudice and discrimination during their college careers. Analysis revealed 8 types of multiraci…
Vicarious racism: A qualitative analysis of experiences with secondhand racism in graduate education
In this article, the authors examine the role of vicarious racism in the experiences of doctoral students of color. The researchers conducted semi-structured individual interviews with 26 doctoral students who self-reported experiencing racism and racial trauma during their doctoral studies. The analysis generated four themes that detail the different ways in which doctoral students of color in the study experienced vicarious racism and the conse…
Model Minority Myth
The model minority myth suggests that all Asian Americans achieve universal and unparalleled academic and occupational success. The model minority stereotype is a problematic construction of Asian Americans as a monolithic, homogenous group. It serves to discount the challenges of other minority groups, it masks the serious inequities within a vastly diverse population, and it renders that population invisible in discussions carried out in public…
The Continuing Significance of Racism in the Lives of Asian American College Students
Asian Americans are one of the most misunderstood populations in higher education, and more research on this population is warranted. In this investigation, authors sought to understand the range of ways that Asian American students experience racism on a daily basis in college. They analyzed data from 46 individual, face-to-face qualitative interviews with Asian American undergraduates at 6 4-year postsecondary institutions around the nation, an…
The Culturally Engaging Campus Environments (Cece) Model: A New Theory of Success Among Racially Diverse College Student Populations
Asian American Students in Higher Education
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Critical Racial Contexts Chapter 3: Critical Historical Contexts Chapter 4: Critical Demographic Contexts Chapter 5: Asian American Identity in College Chapter 6: Asian American Race Relations in College Chapter 7: Asian American Success in College Chapter 8: Future Directions for Research on Asian American Students in College
Unpacking the Complex and Multifaceted Nature of Parental Influences on Southeast Asian American College Students' Educational Trajectories
This article reports on a study that examined the ways in which parents influence the educational trajectories of Southeast Asian American (SEAA) undergraduates at four-year institutions. Individual, face-to-face interviews with 34 SEAAs were conducted and analyzed. Findings illustrate the complex and multifaceted ways that parental influences shape SEAA educational trajectories
On the utility of Asian critical (AsianCrit) theory in the field of education
Despite the powerful influence of race and racism on the experiences and outcomes of Asian Americans in US education, coherent conceptual frameworks specifically focused on delineating how White supremacy shapes the lives of this population are difficult to find. The AsianCrit framework, grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the experiences and voices of Asian Americans, can begin filling this gap. In this article, we review an AsianCrit fra…
The Role of Ethnic Student Organizations in Fostering African American and Asian American Students' Cultural Adjustment and Membership at Predominantly White Institutions
Over half of all racial/ethnic minority students matriculating at 4-year colleges fail to graduate within 6 years. One explanation for those low graduation rates is minority students' inability to find membership in the cultures and subcultures of their respective campuses. This study was focused on understanding the role of ethnic student organizations in fostering minority students' adjustment to and membership in the cultures of a predominantl…
The Continuing Significance of Racism in the Lives of Asian American College Students
Asian Americans are one of the most misunderstood populations in higher education, and more research on this population is warranted. In this investigation, authors sought to understand the range of ways that Asian American students experience racism on a daily basis in college. They analyzed data from 46 individual, face-to-face qualitative interviews with Asian American undergraduates at 6 4-year postsecondary institutions around the nation, an…
Asian American Students in Higher Education
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Critical Racial Contexts Chapter 3: Critical Historical Contexts Chapter 4: Critical Demographic Contexts Chapter 5: Asian American Identity in College Chapter 6: Asian American Race Relations in College Chapter 7: Asian American Success in College Chapter 8: Future Directions for Research on Asian American Students in College
Vicarious racism: A qualitative analysis of experiences with secondhand racism in graduate education
In this article, the authors examine the role of vicarious racism in the experiences of doctoral students of color. The researchers conducted semi-structured individual interviews with 26 doctoral students who self-reported experiencing racism and racial trauma during their doctoral studies. The analysis generated four themes that detail the different ways in which doctoral students of color in the study experienced vicarious racism and the conse…
A Qualitative Analysis of Multiracial Students’ Experiences With Prejudice and Discrimination in College
Mixed-race persons constitute a substantial and growing population in the United States. We examined multiracial college students’ experiences with prejudice and discrimination in college with conducted focus group interviews with 12 mixed-race participants and individual interviews with 22 mixed-race undergraduates to understand how they experienced prejudice and discrimination during their college careers. Analysis revealed 8 types of multiraci…
Model Minority Myth
The model minority myth suggests that all Asian Americans achieve universal and unparalleled academic and occupational success. The model minority stereotype is a problematic construction of Asian Americans as a monolithic, homogenous group. It serves to discount the challenges of other minority groups, it masks the serious inequities within a vastly diverse population, and it renders that population invisible in discussions carried out in public…
How culturally engaging campus environments influence sense of belonging in college: An examination of differences between White students and students of color
Low persistence and degree completion rates continue to plague higher education, and students of color persist at even lower rates than their White peers. Research has linked greater sense of belonging in college to increased intentions to persist to graduation. However, research on how culturally relevant and responsive campus environments facilitate or hinder belonging and subsequent graduation among racially diverse college student populations…
Generating Ethnic Minority Student Success (Gems): A qualitative analysis of high-performing institutions
Less than one-half of all underrepresented racial and ethnic minority students who begin college at a 4-year institution with aspirations to earn a bachelor’s degree achieve that goal within 6 years. The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the institutional factors that contribute to racial and ethnic minority student success at three predominantly White institutions with high and equitable underrepresented racial and ethnic minority st…
Creating spaces of refusal in the neoliberal academy
Collective action has always been the heartbeat of social justice movements. However, existing systems pressure people to focus on hyper-competition and eradicate the ability to collectively resist systemic oppression. Unfortunately, education scholars rarely critically and theoretically analyze how they can and do collectively refuse neoliberal pressures in the context of higher education. In this article, we examine how neoliberal contexts indu…
How Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (Aanapisi) Initiatives Respond to Institutional Racism
In this study, authors conduct a qualitative inquiry grounded in a critical paradigm to understand how AANAPISI initiatives transcend their programmatic spaces to respond to racism within their respective institutional contexts. Analysis of 67 qualitative individual face-to-face interviews with faculty, administrators, and staff at five AANAPISI initiatives shed light on how these initiatives encounter institutional racism. The inquiry also detai…
Humanizing scholarly resistance: Toward greater solidarity in social justice advocacy within the neoliberal academy
In this article, the author highlights how systemic forces both fuel assaults on scholar-activists in the present day and how oppressive systems can lead to scholars responding in ways that (sub)consciously amplify and spread this systemic violence. In doing so, he demonstrates how an increased understanding of these processes might inform the ways in which scholars can more effectively navigate this turbulent terrain. Building on this analysis, …
Unpacking the Complex and Multifaceted Nature of Parental Influences on Southeast Asian American College Students' Educational Trajectories
This article reports on a study that examined the ways in which parents influence the educational trajectories of Southeast Asian American (SEAA) undergraduates at four-year institutions. Individual, face-to-face interviews with 34 SEAAs were conducted and analyzed. Findings illustrate the complex and multifaceted ways that parental influences shape SEAA educational trajectories
The Misrepresented Minority: New Insights on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and the Implications for Higher Education
Symbols contested: An analysis of how symbols advance and hinder diversity, equity, and inclusion
Playing the game just enough: How racially minoritized faculty who advance equity conceptualize success in the neoliberal academy
The Role of Ethnic Student Organizations in Fostering African American and Asian American Students' Cultural Adjustment and Membership at Predominantly White Institutions
Over half of all racial/ethnic minority students matriculating at 4-year colleges fail to graduate within 6 years. One explanation for those low graduation rates is minority students' inability to find membership in the cultures and subcultures of their respective campuses. This study was focused on understanding the role of ethnic student organizations in fostering minority students' adjustment to and membership in the cultures of a predominantl…
Deconstructing the model minority myth and how it contributes to the invisible minority reality in higher education research
A better understanding of the model minority myth of Asian American and Pacific Islanders can help move toward generating an authentic understanding of these students.
Generating Ethnic Minority Student Success (Gems): A qualitative analysis of high-performing institutions
Less than one-half of all underrepresented racial and ethnic minority students who begin college at a 4-year institution with aspirations to earn a bachelor’s degree achieve that goal within 6 years. The aim of this study was to identify and analyze the institutional factors that contribute to racial and ethnic minority student success at three predominantly White institutions with high and equitable underrepresented racial and ethnic minority st…
Unpacking the Complex and Multifaceted Nature of Parental Influences on Southeast Asian American College Students' Educational Trajectories
This article reports on a study that examined the ways in which parents influence the educational trajectories of Southeast Asian American (SEAA) undergraduates at four-year institutions. Individual, face-to-face interviews with 34 SEAAs were conducted and analyzed. Findings illustrate the complex and multifaceted ways that parental influences shape SEAA educational trajectories
The Culturally Engaging Campus Environments (Cece) Model: A New Theory of Success Among Racially Diverse College Student Populations
Asian American Students in Higher Education
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Critical Racial Contexts Chapter 3: Critical Historical Contexts Chapter 4: Critical Demographic Contexts Chapter 5: Asian American Identity in College Chapter 6: Asian American Race Relations in College Chapter 7: Asian American Success in College Chapter 8: Future Directions for Research on Asian American Students in College
Vicarious racism: A qualitative analysis of experiences with secondhand racism in graduate education
In this article, the authors examine the role of vicarious racism in the experiences of doctoral students of color. The researchers conducted semi-structured individual interviews with 26 doctoral students who self-reported experiencing racism and racial trauma during their doctoral studies. The analysis generated four themes that detail the different ways in which doctoral students of color in the study experienced vicarious racism and the conse…
Model Minority Myth
The model minority myth suggests that all Asian Americans achieve universal and unparalleled academic and occupational success. The model minority stereotype is a problematic construction of Asian Americans as a monolithic, homogenous group. It serves to discount the challenges of other minority groups, it masks the serious inequities within a vastly diverse population, and it renders that population invisible in discussions carried out in public…
The Continuing Significance of Racism in the Lives of Asian American College Students
Asian Americans are one of the most misunderstood populations in higher education, and more research on this population is warranted. In this investigation, authors sought to understand the range of ways that Asian American students experience racism on a daily basis in college. They analyzed data from 46 individual, face-to-face qualitative interviews with Asian American undergraduates at 6 4-year postsecondary institutions around the nation, an…
A Qualitative Analysis of Multiracial Students’ Experiences With Prejudice and Discrimination in College
Mixed-race persons constitute a substantial and growing population in the United States. We examined multiracial college students’ experiences with prejudice and discrimination in college with conducted focus group interviews with 12 mixed-race participants and individual interviews with 22 mixed-race undergraduates to understand how they experienced prejudice and discrimination during their college careers. Analysis revealed 8 types of multiraci…
The Impact of Culturally Engaging Campus Environments on Sense of Belonging
The Impact of Culturally Engaging Campus Environments on Sense of Belonging Samuel D. Museus (bio), Varaxy Yi (bio), and Natasha Saelua (bio) Low rates of student persistence and degree completion are a major concern of colleges and universities across the United States. Of all incoming students enrolled at four-year institutions in 2005, less than 60% completed their bachelor’s degree within six years (National Center for Education Statistics [N…
How culturally engaging campus environments influence sense of belonging in college: An examination of differences between White students and students of color
Low persistence and degree completion rates continue to plague higher education, and students of color persist at even lower rates than their White peers. Research has linked greater sense of belonging in college to increased intentions to persist to graduation. However, research on how culturally relevant and responsive campus environments facilitate or hinder belonging and subsequent graduation among racially diverse college student populations…
On the utility of Asian critical (AsianCrit) theory in the field of education
Despite the powerful influence of race and racism on the experiences and outcomes of Asian Americans in US education, coherent conceptual frameworks specifically focused on delineating how White supremacy shapes the lives of this population are difficult to find. The AsianCrit framework, grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the experiences and voices of Asian Americans, can begin filling this gap. In this article, we review an AsianCrit fra…
What Is Deficit Thinking? An Analysis of Conceptualizations of Deficit Thinking and Implications for Scholarly Research
Humanizing scholarly resistance: Toward greater solidarity in social justice advocacy within the neoliberal academy
In this article, the author highlights how systemic forces both fuel assaults on scholar-activists in the present day and how oppressive systems can lead to scholars responding in ways that (sub)consciously amplify and spread this systemic violence. In doing so, he demonstrates how an increased understanding of these processes might inform the ways in which scholars can more effectively navigate this turbulent terrain. Building on this analysis, …
Toward an Anti-Imperialistic Critical Race Analysis of the Model Minority Myth
Over the past three decades, many higher education scholars have engaged in efforts to counter the stereotype that Asian Americans achieve universal and unparalleled academic success. While most of these scholars adopt an anti-oppression approach, some researchers have claimed that this literature reinforces oppressive deficit paradigms. To understand this conflict in existing literature, the current authors utilize an anti-imperialistic approach…
“We Really Have to Come Together”: Understanding the Role of Solidarity in Asian American College Students’ Social Justice Activism and Advocacy
Structural oppression continues to be one of the most pressing problems in U.S. society, and college students have always played a major role in addressing systemic inequities. Yet, much remains to be learned about the experiences of students advocating social justice in higher education, and there is a paucity of research on Asian American students involved in such efforts. This study sought to understand how Asian American undergraduates unders…
The Centrality of Critical Agency: How Asian American College Students Develop Commitments to Social Justice
Context Systemic oppression is one of the most pressing problems in U.S. society. However, relatively little is known about the process by which college students become committed to social justice agendas. In addition, systematic empirical inquiries that examine how Asian American students, in particular, develop such commitments are difficult to find. Purpose/Research Question This inquiry was focused on understanding the process by which Asian …
Playing the game just enough: How racially minoritized faculty who advance equity conceptualize success in the neoliberal academy
Creating spaces of refusal in the neoliberal academy
Collective action has always been the heartbeat of social justice movements. However, existing systems pressure people to focus on hyper-competition and eradicate the ability to collectively resist systemic oppression. Unfortunately, education scholars rarely critically and theoretically analyze how they can and do collectively refuse neoliberal pressures in the context of higher education. In this article, we examine how neoliberal contexts indu…
How Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (Aanapisi) Initiatives Respond to Institutional Racism
In this study, authors conduct a qualitative inquiry grounded in a critical paradigm to understand how AANAPISI initiatives transcend their programmatic spaces to respond to racism within their respective institutional contexts. Analysis of 67 qualitative individual face-to-face interviews with faculty, administrators, and staff at five AANAPISI initiatives shed light on how these initiatives encounter institutional racism. The inquiry also detai…
Understanding the Relationship between Culturally Engaging Campus Environments and College Students’ Academic Motivation
Low rates of college completion are a major national dilemma, and one way in which college campuses can increase degree attainment rates is by fostering higher levels of academic motivation among students. This study analyzed the relationship between culturally engaging campus environments and growth in college students’ academic motivation. The survey data from a sample of 704 undergraduates enrolled at a public four-year university on the East …
Analyzing the Relationship between Campus Environments and Academic Self-Efficacy in College
Low persistence and degree completion rates are of paramount concern for higher education researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. There is some evidence that students’ success in higher education is partially a function of their self-efficacy beliefs, but little is known about how campus environments shape academic self-efficacy. This study aimed to understand the relationship between culturally engaging campus environments and four-year co…
Relative Racialization and Asian American College Student Activism
In this qualitative study, Samuel D. Museus analyzes how relative racialization processes and their dynamics shape Asian American college students’ racial justice activism. The findings from his qualitative interviews with activist Asian American undergraduates reveal how these students perceived relative racialization processes as raising barriers to their racial justice efforts. Specifically, they saw these forms of racialization as promoting r…
A letter to future scholars in the struggle for justice
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (23 works) · Higher Education Research Studies (17 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Ethnic group (12 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (11 works) · Social science (11 works) · Anthropology (10 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Higher education (10 works)