Whose Side Are You On? Asian Americans’ Mistrust of Asian–White Biracials Predicts More Exclusion From the Ingroup

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 827-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline M. Chen ◽  
Nour S. Kteily ◽  
Arnold K. Ho
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Perceived Discrimination ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Racial Group ◽  
Biracial Identity

We investigated Asian Americans’ perceptions of Asian–White biracials. Because the Asian/White boundary may be more permeable than other minority/White boundaries, we reasoned that Asian Americans are more likely than Black Americans to be skeptical of biracials, perceiving that biracials would prefer to identify as White and would be disloyal to Asians, consequently categorizing them as more outgroup. We further reasoned that Asian Americans’ concerns about and exclusion of biracials would be predicted by greater perceived discrimination against Asian Americans, which increases the incentive for biracials to pass into the higher status racial group. Studies 1 and 2 provided correlational support for these theorized relationships among Asian Americans. Study 2 showed that perceived discrimination did not increase Black Americans’ concerns about biracials’ identity preferences and loyalty. Studies 3 and 4 provided causal evidence for the roles of perceived discrimination and biracial identity preferences, respectively, in Asian Americans’ exclusion of biracials.

scholarly journals Conscription and the Color Line: Rawls, Race and Vietnam

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Brandon M. Terry
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Ideal Theory ◽  
Racial Group ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
Black Poverty

This article revisits one of John Rawls's rare forays into activist politics, his proposal presented to the Harvard faculty, calling for a denunciation of the “2-S” system of student deferments from conscription. In little-studied archival papers, Rawls argued that the draft both exposed “background” structural racial injustice and constituted a burdening of black Americans that violated the norms of fair cooperation. Rather than obscuring racial injustice and focusing exclusively on economic inequality, as Charles Mills has claimed, Rawls rejected the ascendant conservative views that naturalized black poverty or else attributed it to cultural pathologies in black families. Thus Rawls found nothing illicit in taking the position of a disadvantaged racial group as a relevant comparison when applying his ideal theory to nonideal circumstances. However, I contend in this article that Rawls's account of political philosophy as an attempt to find a consensus may be similarly ideological, leading him to displace the reality of conflict through begging descriptions, expressivist formulations, and historical romanticism.

scholarly journals Perpetual Foreigner in One’s Own Land: Potential Implications for Identity and Psychological Adjustment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Que-Lam Huynh ◽  
Thierry Devos ◽  
Laura Smalarz
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Perceived Discrimination ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Identity Conflict ◽  
The Us ◽  
Dominant Society

The perpetual foreigner stereotype posits that members of ethnic minorities will always be seen as the “other” in the White Anglo-Saxon dominant society of the US (Devos & Banaji, 2005), which may have negative implications for them. The goal of the present research was to determine whether awareness of this perpetual foreigner stereotype predicts identity and psychological adjustment. We conducted a series of studies with 231 Asian Americans and 211 Latino/as (Study 1), 89 African Americans (Study 2), and 56 Asian Americans and 165 Latino/as (Study 3). All participants completed measures of perceived discrimination, awareness of the perpetual foreigner stereotype, conflict between ethnic and national identities, sense of belonging to American culture, and demographics. In Study 3, participants also completed measures of psychological adjustment: depression, hope, and life satisfaction. All participants were students at a large, public university on the West Coast of the US. Across studies, we found that even after controlling for perceived discrimination, awareness of the perpetual foreigner stereotype was a significant predictor of identity conflict and lower sense of belonging to American culture. From Study 3, we also found that, above and beyond perceived discrimination, awareness of the perpetual foreigner stereotype significantly predicted lower hope and life satisfaction for Asian Americans, and that it was a marginal predictor of greater depression for Latino/as. These results suggest that the perpetual foreigner stereotype may play a role in ethnic minority identity and adjustment.

scholarly journals BIDIL: A RACE-TARGETED DRUG FOR BLACK AMERICAN’S ONLY

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Naveen Chandra Talniya
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Racial Disparities ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Racial Group ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
Targeted Drug ◽  
Racial Disparities In Health ◽  
Targeted Medicine

  It has been noted that pharma research toward race-targeted medicine and it criticism is going on simultaneously over the past few years. Some argued that drugs specifically target to cure particular racial groups could play a vital role against racial disparities in health. While others claimed that race-targeted medicine inappropriately treats race as a biological reason for racial disparities when broader social and environmental factors may offer better descriptions. Much of this debate includes the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of drug BiDil in 2005, which became the first drug to be marked for a specific racial group black Americans who suffers from heart failure (HF). This controversial drug was declared failed due to less attention of physician’s as well as its high cost in market. The highlighted part of this review is that besides much criticism still this drug prescribed by majority of physicians. Moreover, BiDil is not only one which is race specific but also there are more drugs which have been claimed to have different effects in different racial or ethnic groups.  

Does Perceiving Discrimination Influence Partisanship among U.S. Immigrant Minorities? Evidence from Five Experiments

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Hopkins ◽  
Cheryl R. Kaiser ◽  
Efrén O. Pérez ◽  
Sara Hagá ◽  
Corin Ramos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Perceived Discrimination ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Political Incorporation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Causal Influence ◽  
Partisan Identity

AbstractPerceived discrimination (PD) is reliably and strongly associated with partisan identity (PID) among US immigrant minorities such as Latinos and Asian Americans. Yet whether PD causes PID remains unclear, since it is possible that partisanship influences perceptions of discrimination or that other factors drive the observed association. Here, we assess the causal influence of group-level PD on PID using five experiments with Latino and Asian American adults. These experiments varied in important ways: they took place inside and outside the lab, occurred prior to and during Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and tested different manifestations of PD and partisan attitudes (total n = 2,528). These efforts point to a simple but unexpected conclusion: our experiments and operationalizations do not support the claim that group-targeted PD directly causes PID. These results have important implications for understanding partisanship among immigrants and their co-ethnics and the political incorporation of Latinos and Asian Americans.

scholarly journals Social Media Posts About Racism Leads to Evaluative Backlash for Black Job Applicants

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 205630512097836
Author(s):  
Simon Howard ◽  
Kalen Kennedy ◽  
Francisco Tejeda
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Employee Selection ◽  
Racial Group ◽  
Job Applicants ◽  
Cover Letter ◽  
Future Directions

Black Americans post about race and race-related issues on social media more than any other racial group. In this study, we investigated whether Black Americans who post about racism on social networking sites (i.e., Facebook) experience evaluative backlash during the employee selection process. Participants ( N = 154) were given a Black job candidate’s cover letter, resume, and a scanned printout of their social media. Depending on what condition they were randomly assigned to, the applicant’s social media contained posts about racism or posts that were race neutral. Results indicated that Black individuals whose posts were about racism were evaluated less favorably than Black individuals whose posts were race neutral. Specifically, they were perceived as being less likable. In addition, Black individuals whose social media posts were related to racism were less likely to be offered an interview for a job. Implications, limitations, and future directions are discussed.

Remembering Fred Ho: The Legacy of Afro Asian Futurism

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Price
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Connections

What is Afro Asia? What are the political and cultural connections between Black Americans and Asian Americans? What does jazz have to do with martial arts? In 1997 Fred Ho began creating a series of Afro Asian jazz martial arts performance pieces that brought together a synthesis of martial arts practitioners, dancers, and jazz artists, reflecting the legacy of the Bandung Conference of 1955.

scholarly journals Multiple Dimensions of Racial Group Identification Among Adult Black Americans

1997 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Thornton ◽  
Thanh V. Tran ◽  
Robert Joseph Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Group Identification ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Racial Group ◽  
Multiple Dimensions

Art and Race in the Time of Covid-19

Janus Head ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
Lenore Metrick-Chen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
The World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Dominant Paradigm

Trump and his administration brought with them an inflammatory rhetoric that reduced complex issues into the simplified polarity of "us" and "them." With this as the dominant paradigm, racism was encouraged and spread like a virus throughout the nation, appearing in heightened jingoism against other nations, anger towards fellow citizens and violence towards neighbors. When the pandemic Covid-19 spread throughout the nation and the world, it became politicized, used by Trump as a novel corona vehicle help inflame intolerance. He repeatedly associated China and Chinese people with the virus to forward his political agenda regarding US trade with China and he used the resulting demonization of China as a foil for his complicity with Russian crimes. In response to increased and well-publicized acts of violence against Black Americans, systemic racism against Black people is finally being noticed. However, anti-Asian violence has largely been disregarded. This paper discusses both the increased violence against Asian Americans and the lack of attention to it. Dividing the paper into three sections, I correlate an artwork to the main issue in each section: the state-of-affairs provide a context in which to understand the artworks. Reciprocally, because artworks evoke an embodied understanding, involving our senses as well cognition, artworks change our relationship with issues from topical to personal. The artworks recontextualize what we thought we already knew and present possibilities for constructing the world differently.

Reconsidering Group Interests

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Niambi Carter ◽  
Janelle Wong ◽  
Lisette Gallarzo Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Linked Fate ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Attitudes Toward Immigration

Abstract 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 Survey—a time period marked by high levels of saliency with regard to immigration issues—we find that Black Americans, the majority of whom are U.S.-born, exhibit even more progressive attitudes towards immigration, both legal and undocumented, than mostly foreign-born Asian Americans. Our research challenges economic and material theories related to immigration attitudes and suggests that political connections to and “linked fate” with other minorities better explain why Black Americans exhibit more progressive attitudes toward immigration than Asian Americans.

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