Coming of Age: The Current Situation of Asian American Children

1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
American Children

Race Differences in Antisocial Behaviors and Attitudes and Early Initiation of Substance Use

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Wells ◽  
Diane M. Morrison ◽  
Mary R. Gillmore ◽  
Richard F. Catalano ◽  
Bonita Iritani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
White Children ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Antisocial Attitudes ◽  
American Children

This article examines racial differences in self-reported delinquency, school trouble, antisocial attitudes, and toughness and in teacher-rated aggressive and inattentive behaviors among fifth grade black, white, and Asian American subjects. Also examined are the relationships of these variables to substance initiation within each racial group. Controlling for socio-economic status, racial groups differed from one another in self-reported delinquency, school trouble and toughness, and in teacher-rated aggressiveness and inattention. Antisocial behavior and attitudes were stronger predictors of substance initiation for Asian American than for black and white children. For white children both self-reported and teacher-rated behavior were significantly related to substance initiation. For black children, only self-reported antisocial behavior, and for Asian American children only self-reported delinquent behavior and attitudes predicted substance initiation. Implications for prevention and research are discussed.

Untimely Developments: Genre Drag and Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land

MELUS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-62
Author(s):  
Wendy Allison Lee
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Intergenerational Conflict ◽  
Family Values ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
American Subject ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Historical Past

Abstract Through a reinterpretation of Gish Jen’s novel Mona in the Promised Land (1996), this essay makes the case for the queer possibilities immanent to the most conservative “family values” Asian American genre—the bildungsroman organized around intergenerational conflict. In a decade obsessed with the question of what shifting racial and ethnic demographics meant for the national future, Mona’s content tempted 1990s readers to interpret its vision of the 1960s as a timely meditation on the present. Read in such a way, the novel resolves anxieties about demographic change by reproducing the “timeless” values of family and nation. However, Mona’s form tells a different story. Rather than using the historical past as a mere backdrop to tell a timely story about national progress, Mona is reflexive in its preoccupation with its relationship to the past. Jen’s novel shows us what a coming-of-age story looks like when it does not assimilate its subject into national time. Instead, Mona draws “untimely comparisons” between past US imperial formations that are the present’s condition of possibility. I examine how the novel disrupts the bildungroman’s formal and ideological relationship to national futurity by evoking the past as a drag on progress and the novel as enacting a formal corollary to queer drag performance. I read Mona as a novel of untimely development that reinvents the coming-of-age narrative so that the Asian American subject becomes not a figure that exemplifies a certain future subject or nation but instead one that generatively obstructs national fantasies of progress.

scholarly journals Symptoms of Anxiety and Associated Risk and Protective Factors in Young Asian American Children

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 761-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keng-Yen Huang ◽  
Sabrina Cheng ◽  
Esther Calzada ◽  
Laurie Miller Brotman
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factors ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Risk And Protective Factors ◽  
American Children
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