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Dissecting Anti-Asian Racism Through a Historical and Transnational AsianCrit Lens

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ID2292156
AuthorsMin Yu (0000-0002-7614-0355, Wayne State University, corresponding author), Roland Sintos Coloma (0000-0003-0375-517X, Wayne State University), Wenyang Sun (0000-0002-1413-1920, University of Utah), Jungmin Kwon (0000-0002-2151-5690, Michigan State University)
Year2024
Volume94
Issue2
Pages330-350
Publication date2024-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soin.12572
OpenAlexW4387121536
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited94

The primary focus of this paper is twofold: to demarcate the epistemic erasure of societal knowledge and narratives of Asian Americans as braided with other forms of anti-Asian racism by tracing its historical roots in orientalism, colonialism, and imperialism; and to redress such erasure by foregrounding transnational perspectives and Asian American Critical Race Theory (AsianCrit). By attending to historical and ongoing experiences of migration and racialization, this paper highlights the transculturality of Asian American histories, epistemologies, and communities, along with the multi-stranded connections that they share with diasporic Asians in other countries. It expands the dominant framing of racialized minorities in the United States that indexes and limits their experiences within the geopolitical boundaries of the nation-state. By situating Asian Americans within critical historical and transnational contexts, this paper generates a fuller and more complex understanding of the past and present conditions of Asian Americans and anti-Asian racism. It also deliberately highlights the agency of Asian American youth and their strategies in contesting anti-Asian racism in schools and society at large. By amplifying Asian American youth voices and agency, this paper not only affirms their wealth of transnational funds of knowledge but also offers crucial interventions challenging the curricular violence that continues to marginalize and misrepresent Asian Americans

Agency (philosophy) · Asian americans · Colonialism · Ethnic group · Foregrounding · Framing (construction) · Historical trauma · Model minority · Orientalism · Political science · Race (biology) · Racialization · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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Citations per year12,5
Citation span2024 - 2026 (3)
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