Education systems are quite different in Asia and the US. Questioning facts and authority with more interaction is common in North American educational system while confronting Asian teacher is frowned upon. Kids have a different schedule, classroom size, class organization, and even transportation is...
Black American Muslims, who are most affected by policing and surveillance, are often relegated to a secondary role in national Muslim organizations or Muslim-related religious civil rights advocacy groups. Making “Muslim” a cultural category, along with ethnic groups like “South Asian” or “Ara...
Anti-Chinese sentiment increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, presenting as a considerable spike in overt violence and hatred directed at Asian American individuals. However, it is less clear how subtle patterns of consumer discrimination, which are difficult to directly observe yet greatly impact As...
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law enforcement agencies and politicians bothered about ‘transnational organised crime’ and its ability to launder billions of what a senior former British civil servant termed in an interview ‘mutant capital’; 3. corporations (especially American-headquartered ones prohibited from paying bribes to ...
Moreover, Kwok notes how some Asian theologians resist being identified as feminist theologians, as the term “feminism” connotes “a radicalism and separatism advocated by middle-class European and American women” and “the struggle for autonomy has been criticized repeatedly as both Western and ...
In a post-Civil Rights movement construct, the initial groups of immigrants did not identify with the imposed identity of “Orientals”. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, and in response to the ongoing racism, youth on college campuses coined the term “Asian American” while rejecting “...
American political theorist John Schaar, for instance, referred to American patriotism as “covenanted patriotism,” a form of patriotic attachment characterized by a commitment to the principles and goals set out in the foundingcovenantand the duty to carry on the work of theFounding Fathers. ...
The debate was an element within a larger struggle over competing visions of modernity and of how Asian societies should be organized. Proponents of Asian values made several related claims. They asserted that Asian values were responsible for the region’s significant economic growth; that economic...
Therefore, despite momentous gains and challenges to DEI in higher education, Asian Americans struggle to find an appropriate space in the diversity debates and “be seen”. This essay addresses some of these challenges facing Asian Americans in higher education while DEI is under attack. The ...