Janelle Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janelle Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9575-841X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1267 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Introduction to the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) Oversamples
Affirmative action isn't hurting Asian Americans. Here's why that myth survives
The Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action, focusing on whether Harvard’s consideration of race in admissions intentionally discriminates against Asian Americans, is expected this month. A big part of our research has been to identify anti-Asian discrimination, so we understand how charges that Asian Americans are held to a higher standard in college admissions might feel like another instance of anti-Asian bias. But we just don’t see an As…
Avoiding the Anti-Black Trap: Toward a Robust Interpretation of the Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd
As a discipline centered on power, political science provides an important window into potential responses to episodes of heightened attention to long-standing racial violence and inequality in the United States. During the summer of 2020, political science departments, like many other entities, issued public statements in response to the brutal murder of George Floyd and the long and ongoing history of deadly violence against Black people at the…
Anti-Black Racism and Asian American Local Educational Activism: A Critical Race Discourse Analysis
In this critical race discourse analysis of legal documents and correspondence, we discuss how a small number of highly organized and visible groups of Asian American parent activists oppose admissions policy reforms intended to diversify student enrollment to specialized high schools. We identify two narratives deployed by this vocal minority: anti-Asian discrimination and Asian American exceptionalism. These narratives prioritize the historical…
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century
We begin our review with research related to the racial formation and racial position of Asian Americans. How we define this fast-growing group and how it is situated in the broader racial landscape are critical to understanding its politics. We then turn to research on the history of Asian American civic engagement. These two research areas provide important context for the rest of the review, which covers three additional themes: ( a) political…
Reconsidering Group Interests: Why Black Americans Exhibit More Progressive Attitudes Toward Immigration than Asian Americans
This paper aims to explore attitudes toward immigration among two non-White groups, Asian Americans and Black Americans. For more than a decade, individuals from Asia have comprised the majority of immigrants entering the United States each year. Today, the majority of the Asian American U.S. population remains foreign-born. Yet using data collected from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey and the 2016 National Asian American …
We Won’t Go Back: Asian Americans and Racial Justice After Affirmative Action
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Parts of this essay are adapted from Janelle Wong and Viet Thanh Nguyen, “Affirmative action isn’t hurting Asian Americans. Here’s why that myth survives,” Los Angeles Times (June 14, 2023) https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-06-14/affirmative-action-supreme-court-harvard-case-asian-americans2. Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fel…
Between Empirical Data and Anti-Blackness: A Critical Perspective on Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and Hate Incidents
Between Empirical Data and Anti-BlacknessA Critical Perspective on Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and Hate Incidents Janelle Wong (bio) and Rossina Zamora Liu (bio) After a US president (with connections to white nationalists), raised the specter of Yellow Peril and white shooters engaged in mass killings of Asian Americans in Atlanta and Indianapolis in the spring of 2021, white violence toward Asian Americans was difficult to ignore. Yet one leading st…
The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated
The growth of religiously unaffiliated voters has been noted for some time, but the political consequences of this trend are much less certain. Extant scholarship makes clear that in terms of vote choice, partisanship, and ideology, the group as a whole tends to diverge from those who affiliate with a religious tradition. This article examines whether the politics of the religiously unaffiliated differ across racial groups as it does among the re…
Introduction: Reflections on Asian American Politics on the 20th Anniversary of the Asian Pacific American Caucus
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Convergence Across Difference: Understanding the Political Ties That Bind with the 2016 National Asian American Survey
Janelle Wong a, Sono Shah b, Convergence Across Difference: Understanding the Political Ties That Bind with the 2016 National Asian American Survey, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 2, Asian Americans and the Immigrant Integration Agenda (April 2021), pp. 70-92
Reflections on 2020: Challenging Stereotypes in Asian American Politics
Racial stereotypes drive Asian American politics in the U.S. First, they limit sustained political mobilization. Second, they lead campaigns and candidates to misfire when they do try to target Asi
Evangelicals and Immigration: Fault Lines among the Faithful, by Ruth M. Melkonian-Hoover and Lyman A. KELLSTEDT
Evangelicals and Immigration: Fault Lines among the Faithful, by RUTH M. MELKONIAN-HOOVER and LYMAN A. KELLSTEDT Evangelicals and Immigration: Fault Lines among the Faithful, by RUTH M. MELKONIAN-HOOVER and LYMAN A. KELLSTEDT. New York: Palgrave, 2019, 189 pp.; $74.99 (hardcover). Janelle Wong Janelle Wong University of Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 80, Issue 4, Win…
Race, Evangelicals and Immigration
White evangelicals constitute the core of President Trump’s electoral base. The loyalty of White evangelical Trump supporters to the President is grounded in racial anxieties expressed well before Trump’s 2016 campaign. White evangelicals’ anti-immigration agenda runs deep, and it is as important to understanding the current political moment as their anti-abortion agenda. Perceptions of discrimination against Whites drives the group’s conservativ…
The Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (Cmps): Building the Academic Pipeline Through Data Access, Publication, and Networking Opportunities
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Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change
The Evangelical Vote and Race in the 2016 Presidential Election
This paper highlights differences in evangelical identity and its association with political attitudes across racial groups. It finds that White evangelicals hold more conservative views than Black, Latinx, and Asian American evangelicals, despite similar levels of religiosity. White evangelicals' more conservative political attitudes are driven by a sense of in-group embattlement, or the idea that their group faces as much or more discrimination…
Best practices in collecting online data with Asian, Black, Latino, and White respondents: Evidence from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-election Survey
As the U.S. becomes increasingly diverse, new challenges to capturing this diversity emerge for survey researchers studying political attitudes and behavior. Sampling methods are no longer straightforward as simple random-digit-dial. Given the confluence of changing demographics and changing survey technology, we argue that researchers should carefully consider a stratified listed/density quota-sampling approach to multilingual surveys with large…
Immigrants, evangelicals, and politics in an era of demographic change
Accurately Counting Asian Americans Is a Civil Rights Issue
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing group in the United States, increasing from 0.7 percent in 1970 to nearly 6 percent in 2016. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2065, Asian Americans will constitute 14 percent of the U.S. population. Immigration is fueling this growth: China and India have passed Mexico as the top countries sending immigrants to the United States since 2013. Today, two of three Asian Americans are foreign born-a figur…
The Study of Asian American Politics in the United States
A & Q 11 6 Works Cited Blyth, Mark. 2006. "Great Punctuations: Prediction, Randomness, and the Evolution of Comparative Political Science." American Political Science Review 100, no. 4: 493– 98. Cumings, Bruce. 1997. "Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations , and Area Studies during and after the Cold War." In Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies, edited by Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian, 261– 302. Durham, N.C.: Duke U…
A possessive investment in white heteropatriarchy? The 2016 election and the politics of race, gender, and sexuality
The 2016 election has triggered new interest in and speculation about longstanding questions about the roles of race, gender, and sexuality in American politics. We argue that rather than anomalous and exceptional, the 2016 election represents an extension – and perhaps the beginning of a consolidation – of enduring and intersecting configurations of racialized and gendered power, marginalization, and oppression. We examine some of the ways in wh…
The Role of Born-Again Identity on the Political Attitudes of Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans
Together, Asian American and Latino evangelicals constitute about 13% of all evangelicals in the United States. This proportion is surely going to increase as new immigrants enter the United States from Asia and Latin America and the number of White evangelicals remains steady or even falls. But the extent and nature of the effects of evangelical identity on the political attitudes of growing numbers of Latinos and Asian Americans have not been s…
Reflections on the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths Data and Report
This article examines the background behind the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's 2012 report, Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths. The authors discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the study, particularly the way certain questions and categories of analysis in the survey were framed. In particular, the article notes how Asian American Muslims and Sikhs were marginalized in the survey and the report of its results
Intergroup Prejudice in Multiethnic Settings
This article examines how out‐group perceptions among Asian Americans, blacks, Latinos, and whites vary with the racial composition of their surroundings. Previous research on the contextual determinants of racial attitudes offers mixed expectations: some studies indicate that larger percentages of proximate out‐groups generate intergroup conflict and hostility while others suggest that such environments promote interracial contact and understand…
Defended Neighborhoods, Integration, and Racially Motivated Crime
This article investigates demographic and macroeconomic correlates of racially motivated antiminority crime in New York City (1987‐95). Event count models indicate that crimes directed against Asians, Latinos, and blacks are most frequent in predominantly white areas, particularly those that had experienced an in‐migration of minori‐ties. No relationship is found between rates of racially motivated crime and macroeconomic conditions, such as the …
The Effects of Age and Political Exposure on the Development of Party Identification Among Asian American and Latino Immigrants in the United States
Best practices in collecting online data with Asian, Black, Latino, and White respondents: Evidence from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-election Survey
As the U.S. becomes increasingly diverse, new challenges to capturing this diversity emerge for survey researchers studying political attitudes and behavior. Sampling methods are no longer straightforward as simple random-digit-dial. Given the confluence of changing demographics and changing survey technology, we argue that researchers should carefully consider a stratified listed/density quota-sampling approach to multilingual surveys with large…
The Contours and Sources of Ethnic Identity Choices Among Asian Americans
Objective. How do individuals of Asian descent in the United States identify themselves in ethnic terms and why? The purpose of this research is to map the contours of ethnic self‐identities among Asian adults and explain their identity preferences in this immigrant community of color. Methods. We analyze a new and large‐scale survey that collected public opinion from randomly selected individuals of the six largest Asian American descents who re…
Group-Based Resources and Political Participation among Asian Americans
Scholars of minority political participation have shown significant interest in unraveling the complex but crucial role of group-basedresources. Although there is an emerging scholarship on Latinos, much of the work on group consciousness, group identity, and ethnic organizations is based on research on Black Americans. Increasing diversity in the United States brings necessary attention to expanding the model to the politics and participation of…
A possessive investment in white heteropatriarchy? The 2016 election and the politics of race, gender, and sexuality
The 2016 election has triggered new interest in and speculation about longstanding questions about the roles of race, gender, and sexuality in American politics. We argue that rather than anomalous and exceptional, the 2016 election represents an extension – and perhaps the beginning of a consolidation – of enduring and intersecting configurations of racialized and gendered power, marginalization, and oppression. We examine some of the ways in wh…
Mobilizing Asian American Voters: A Field Experiment
This study examines the effects of mobilization on political participation among Asian Americans. It focuses on whether telephone calls and mail increase voter turnout among Asian Americans who live in high-density Asian American areas in Los Angeles County. Prior to the November 5, 2002, elections, a randomized voter mobilization field experiment was conducted. Lists of registered Asian Americans (Chinese, Korean, Indian, Filipino, and Japanese)…
Political Socialisation in Immigrant Families: Challenging Top-Down Parental Socialisation Models
Research in political science and psychology emphasises the role of parental socialisation in political learning. However, because the children of immigrants living in the United States may have more experience and exposure to US politics than their parents, immigrant children may be a critical source of political information about the US within immigrant families. In addition, parents in immigrant families may be socialising their children to po…
Asian Pacific-American Public Opinion and Political Participation
Studying Asian-American politics with public opinion data is a relatively new phenomenon. Only in the last decade have a number of surveys (collected mostly at the local or regional level) been taken, reflecting expanded interest in the growing Asian-American population and the development of ethnic sampling and interviewing techniques.In this article, the terms “Asian” and “Asian American” are used interchangeably. While most research on Asian-A…
The Role of Born-Again Identity on the Political Attitudes of Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans
Together, Asian American and Latino evangelicals constitute about 13% of all evangelicals in the United States. This proportion is surely going to increase as new immigrants enter the United States from Asia and Latin America and the number of White evangelicals remains steady or even falls. But the extent and nature of the effects of evangelical identity on the political attitudes of growing numbers of Latinos and Asian Americans have not been s…
Immigration and Civic Participation in a Multiracial and Multiethnic Context
This article seeks to understand civic participation among Asians and Latinos in a multiethnic, multiracial context. We investigate the usefulness of an expanded model of civic engagement, one that makes central factors related to migration, such as length of residence, language acquisition, and citizenship, for groups that include a large number of immigrants. The 1992–1994 Los Angeles Survey of Urban Inequality allows us to test a model of civi…
Race-Based Considerations and the Obama Vote: Evidence From the 2008 National Asian American Survey
In the 2008 presidential primaries, Barack Obama seemed to have a problem connecting with Asian American voters, as he lost heavily to Hillary Clinton in states such as California and New Jersey. Many speculated that race-based considerations played a significant role in Asian Americans' overwhelming support for Clinton over Obama, with conjectures built on a limited set of aggregate exit poll data from three states. Race may also have accounted …
Convergence Across Difference: Understanding the Political Ties That Bind with the 2016 National Asian American Survey
Janelle Wong a, Sono Shah b, Convergence Across Difference: Understanding the Political Ties That Bind with the 2016 National Asian American Survey, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 2, Asian Americans and the Immigrant Integration Agenda (April 2021), pp. 70-92
Accurately Counting Asian Americans Is a Civil Rights Issue
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing group in the United States, increasing from 0.7 percent in 1970 to nearly 6 percent in 2016. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2065, Asian Americans will constitute 14 percent of the U.S. population. Immigration is fueling this growth: China and India have passed Mexico as the top countries sending immigrants to the United States since 2013. Today, two of three Asian Americans are foreign born-a figur…
Measuring Gay Populations and Antigay Hate Crime
Objectives . The study of crime directed at gay and lesbian targets is hampered by two measurement problems: Police agencies provide unreliable data on hate crime, and tract‐level census data contain no direct information about gay or lesbian population density. This article attempts to gauge two quantities that cannot be measured directly or unambiguously: the size of the gay and lesbian populations and the number of hate crimes directed at gay …
Anti-Black Racism and Asian American Local Educational Activism: A Critical Race Discourse Analysis
In this critical race discourse analysis of legal documents and correspondence, we discuss how a small number of highly organized and visible groups of Asian American parent activists oppose admissions policy reforms intended to diversify student enrollment to specialized high schools. We identify two narratives deployed by this vocal minority: anti-Asian discrimination and Asian American exceptionalism. These narratives prioritize the historical…
Avoiding the Anti-Black Trap: Toward a Robust Interpretation of the Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans
Asian Americans and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century
We begin our review with research related to the racial formation and racial position of Asian Americans. How we define this fast-growing group and how it is situated in the broader racial landscape are critical to understanding its politics. We then turn to research on the history of Asian American civic engagement. These two research areas provide important context for the rest of the review, which covers three additional themes: ( a) political…
Between Empirical Data and Anti-Blackness: A Critical Perspective on Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and Hate Incidents
Between Empirical Data and Anti-BlacknessA Critical Perspective on Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and Hate Incidents Janelle Wong (bio) and Rossina Zamora Liu (bio) After a US president (with connections to white nationalists), raised the specter of Yellow Peril and white shooters engaged in mass killings of Asian Americans in Atlanta and Indianapolis in the spring of 2021, white violence toward Asian Americans was difficult to ignore. Yet one leading st…
Two Steps Forward: The Slow and Steady March Toward Immigrant Political Mobilization
In this essay, I contend that one can understand neither the development of mass action among contemporary immigrants, nor the sporadic nature of that action, without attending to the historic role of parties and community-based organizations in shaping immigrants' political mobilization. I draw connections between the mass immigrant-rights demonstrations that took place during the spring of 2006 and what we know about how immigrants' political p…
An Incomplete Recognition: An Analysis of Political Science Department Statements after the Murder of George Floyd
As a discipline centered on power, political science provides an important window into potential responses to episodes of heightened attention to long-standing racial violence and inequality in the United States. During the summer of 2020, political science departments, like many other entities, issued public statements in response to the brutal murder of George Floyd and the long and ongoing history of deadly violence against Black people at the…
Reflections on the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths Data and Report
This article examines the background behind the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's 2012 report, Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths. The authors discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the study, particularly the way certain questions and categories of analysis in the survey were framed. In particular, the article notes how Asian American Muslims and Sikhs were marginalized in the survey and the report of its results
Introduction to the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) Oversamples
The Role of Race in Political Attitudes Among the Religiously Unaffiliated
The growth of religiously unaffiliated voters has been noted for some time, but the political consequences of this trend are much less certain. Extant scholarship makes clear that in terms of vote choice, partisanship, and ideology, the group as a whole tends to diverge from those who affiliate with a religious tradition. This article examines whether the politics of the religiously unaffiliated differ across racial groups as it does among the re…
Defended Neighborhoods, Integration, and Racially Motivated Crime
This article investigates demographic and macroeconomic correlates of racially motivated antiminority crime in New York City (1987‐95). Event count models indicate that crimes directed against Asians, Latinos, and blacks are most frequent in predominantly white areas, particularly those that had experienced an in‐migration of minori‐ties. No relationship is found between rates of racially motivated crime and macroeconomic conditions, such as the …
The Effects of Age and Political Exposure on the Development of Party Identification Among Asian American and Latino Immigrants in the United States
Measuring Gay Populations and Antigay Hate Crime
Objectives . The study of crime directed at gay and lesbian targets is hampered by two measurement problems: Police agencies provide unreliable data on hate crime, and tract‐level census data contain no direct information about gay or lesbian population density. This article attempts to gauge two quantities that cannot be measured directly or unambiguously: the size of the gay and lesbian populations and the number of hate crimes directed at gay …
Asian Pacific-American Public Opinion and Political Participation
Studying Asian-American politics with public opinion data is a relatively new phenomenon. Only in the last decade have a number of surveys (collected mostly at the local or regional level) been taken, reflecting expanded interest in the growing Asian-American population and the development of ethnic sampling and interviewing techniques.In this article, the terms “Asian” and “Asian American” are used interchangeably. While most research on Asian-A…
The Making of Asian America through Political Participation
Book Review| January 01 2003 The Making of Asian America through Political Participation The Making of Asian America through Political Participation, Pei-te Lien. Janelle Wong Janelle Wong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (2): 103–105. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501294 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Janelle Wong…
The Contours and Sources of Ethnic Identity Choices Among Asian Americans
Objective. How do individuals of Asian descent in the United States identify themselves in ethnic terms and why? The purpose of this research is to map the contours of ethnic self‐identities among Asian adults and explain their identity preferences in this immigrant community of color. Methods. We analyze a new and large‐scale survey that collected public opinion from randomly selected individuals of the six largest Asian American descents who re…
Intergroup Prejudice in Multiethnic Settings
This article examines how out‐group perceptions among Asian Americans, blacks, Latinos, and whites vary with the racial composition of their surroundings. Previous research on the contextual determinants of racial attitudes offers mixed expectations: some studies indicate that larger percentages of proximate out‐groups generate intergroup conflict and hostility while others suggest that such environments promote interracial contact and understand…
The Politics of Asian Americans: Diversity and Community
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Who Am I? Mapping Ethnic Self-Identities 3. Political Orientations: Beliefs and Attitudes about Government 4. Understanding the Contours, Sources, and Impacts of Political Partisanship 5. Political Participitation in Electoral and Non-electoral Settings 6. Where and When Does Gender Matter? 7. Conclusions and Implications Appendix: Question Wording and Coding Scheme of the Pilot National Asian American Political Survey …
The Politics of Asian Americans: Diversity and Community
Through the perspectives of mass politics, this book challenges popular misconceptions about Asian Americans as politically apathetic, disloyal, fragmented, unsophisticated and inscrutable by showcasing results of the 2000-01 Multi City Asian American Political Survey
Mobilizing Asian American Voters: A Field Experiment
This study examines the effects of mobilization on political participation among Asian Americans. It focuses on whether telephone calls and mail increase voter turnout among Asian Americans who live in high-density Asian American areas in Los Angeles County. Prior to the November 5, 2002, elections, a randomized voter mobilization field experiment was conducted. Lists of registered Asian Americans (Chinese, Korean, Indian, Filipino, and Japanese)…
Group-Based Resources and Political Participation among Asian Americans
Scholars of minority political participation have shown significant interest in unraveling the complex but crucial role of group-basedresources. Although there is an emerging scholarship on Latinos, much of the work on group consciousness, group identity, and ethnic organizations is based on research on Black Americans. Increasing diversity in the United States brings necessary attention to expanding the model to the politics and participation of…
Democracy's Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions
Given the massive demographic changes in the United States during the past few decades, understanding the place of immigrants in the public sphere has never been more critical. Democracy's Promise examines both the challenges and opportunities posed to American civic institutions by the presence of increasing numbers of immigrants. Author Janelle Wong argues that the low levels of political participation among contemporary immigrants are not due …
Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada
Book Review| October 01 2007 Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada, Irene Bloemraad. Janelle Wong Janelle Wong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 27 (1): 110–111. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543278 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitt…
Immigration and Civic Participation in a Multiracial and Multiethnic Context
This article seeks to understand civic participation among Asians and Latinos in a multiethnic, multiracial context. We investigate the usefulness of an expanded model of civic engagement, one that makes central factors related to migration, such as length of residence, language acquisition, and citizenship, for groups that include a large number of immigrants. The 1992–1994 Los Angeles Survey of Urban Inequality allows us to test a model of civi…
Two Steps Forward: The Slow and Steady March Toward Immigrant Political Mobilization
In this essay, I contend that one can understand neither the development of mass action among contemporary immigrants, nor the sporadic nature of that action, without attending to the historic role of parties and community-based organizations in shaping immigrants' political mobilization. I draw connections between the mass immigrant-rights demonstrations that took place during the spring of 2006 and what we know about how immigrants' political p…
Political Socialisation in Immigrant Families: Challenging Top-Down Parental Socialisation Models
Research in political science and psychology emphasises the role of parental socialisation in political learning. However, because the children of immigrants living in the United States may have more experience and exposure to US politics than their parents, immigrant children may be a critical source of political information about the US within immigrant families. In addition, parents in immigrant families may be socialising their children to po…
Race-Based Considerations and the Obama Vote: Evidence From the 2008 National Asian American Survey
In the 2008 presidential primaries, Barack Obama seemed to have a problem connecting with Asian American voters, as he lost heavily to Hillary Clinton in states such as California and New Jersey. Many speculated that race-based considerations played a significant role in Asian Americans' overwhelming support for Clinton over Obama, with conjectures built on a limited set of aggregate exit poll data from three states. Race may also have accounted …
National Asian American Survey, 2008: Archival Version
The 2008 National Asian American Survey (NAAS) contains 5,159 completed telephone interviews of self-identified Asian/Asian American residents of the United States. Interviewing began on August 12, 2008, and ended on October 29, 2008. The survey instrument included questions about political behavior and attitudes as well as personal experiences in immigration to the United States. Topics include attitudes toward government, politics and political…
National Asian American Survey, 2008: Version 1
Reflections on the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths Data and Report
This article examines the background behind the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's 2012 report, Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths. The authors discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the study, particularly the way certain questions and categories of analysis in the survey were framed. In particular, the article notes how Asian American Muslims and Sikhs were marginalized in the survey and the report of its results
The Role of Born-Again Identity on the Political Attitudes of Whites, Blacks, Latinos, and Asian Americans
Together, Asian American and Latino evangelicals constitute about 13% of all evangelicals in the United States. This proportion is surely going to increase as new immigrants enter the United States from Asia and Latin America and the number of White evangelicals remains steady or even falls. But the extent and nature of the effects of evangelical identity on the political attitudes of growing numbers of Latinos and Asian Americans have not been s…
The Study of Asian American Politics in the United States
A & Q 11 6 Works Cited Blyth, Mark. 2006. "Great Punctuations: Prediction, Randomness, and the Evolution of Comparative Political Science." American Political Science Review 100, no. 4: 493– 98. Cumings, Bruce. 1997. "Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations , and Area Studies during and after the Cold War." In Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies, edited by Masao Miyoshi and H. D. Harootunian, 261– 302. Durham, N.C.: Duke U…
A possessive investment in white heteropatriarchy? The 2016 election and the politics of race, gender, and sexuality
The 2016 election has triggered new interest in and speculation about longstanding questions about the roles of race, gender, and sexuality in American politics. We argue that rather than anomalous and exceptional, the 2016 election represents an extension – and perhaps the beginning of a consolidation – of enduring and intersecting configurations of racialized and gendered power, marginalization, and oppression. We examine some of the ways in wh…
Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change
The Evangelical Vote and Race in the 2016 Presidential Election
This paper highlights differences in evangelical identity and its association with political attitudes across racial groups. It finds that White evangelicals hold more conservative views than Black, Latinx, and Asian American evangelicals, despite similar levels of religiosity. White evangelicals' more conservative political attitudes are driven by a sense of in-group embattlement, or the idea that their group faces as much or more discrimination…
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