“What Am I Doing Here?”

2018 ◽  
pp. 89-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Ming Dariotis ◽  
Arlene Daus-Magbual ◽  
Grace J. Yoo
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Learning Partnerships ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Bay Area

Creating and maintaining meaningful, educational, and culturally engaging service learning partnerships between Asian American studies programs and Asian American community-based organizations (CBOs) is both challenging and rewarding. The Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University was founded in partnership with both student organizations and community-based organizations, and has sought to maintain the promise to bring university resources and knowledge into the community, while bringing community resources and wisdom into the university through a variety of campus-community partnerships. This study reviews that history in order to contextualize current relationships and practices within institutionally structured community service-learning (CSL) designated courses. A survey of students, community organization partners, and faculty engaged with Asian American service-learning in the San Francisco Bay Area reveals the benefits and challenges of culturally engaged service-learning, suggestions for best practices, and future directions.

Serve the People! Asian American Studies at Fifty: Empowerment and Critical Community Service Learning at San Francisco State University

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 111-136
Author(s):  
Eric Mar ◽  
Jensine Carreon ◽  
Wei Ming Dariotis ◽  
Russell Jeung ◽  
Philip Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
State University ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Community Service Learning

This essay reflects on five decades of growth of the nation’s first Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University (SFSU AAS), focusing on its primary commitment to community empowerment and critical “community service learning” (CSL) and also highlighting past and present struggles, challenges, and innovations. This collectively written analysis summarizes SFSU AAS departmental approaches to CSL and community-based participatory research and highlights two case studies: (1) refugees from Burma community health needs research and advocacy in Oakland and (2) the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network. We conclude by describing how we are applying our model and building support for critical CSL and argue that AAS and ethnic studies must reclaim CSL from the dominant “charity-based” model or risk losing our social justice orientation and commitment to empowerment and self-determination for our communities.

Opportunities for Community - University Partnerships: Implementing a Service-Learning Research Model in Asian American Studies

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-66
Author(s):  
Melany dela Cruz ◽  
Loh-Sze Leung
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Social Agent ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
Asian Pacific

Over the last quarter century, many Asian American Studies (AAS) programs have gradually gained academic legitimacy within universities as part of the movement for Ethnic Studies. The pressures of fighting for legitimacy in a system where research, not community-based work, is rewarded mean that the growing institutionalization of AAS has made the majority of programs and courses less accessible to communities. This article calls for AAS to take a more active, practical, and broader approach in reaching out to Asian Pacific Americans (APA) in our community, especially the underserved who face several obstacles in achieving their goals due to lack of access, lack of education, and discrimination. Asian American Studies now devotes a smaller share of its growing resources to community-orientated and community-based courses than at its inception, exacerbating the divide between the university and APA communities. Asian American Studies must return to its roots as a social agent in a broader social movement for equality and justice. This article introduces a service-learning research model that is one approach to linking the Asian Pacific American community with university Asian American Studies departments and programs across the nation.

Theorizing a Sustainable-Holistic-Interconnected-Partnership Development Model with Feminist, Activist Lenses: Best Practices from a Community-University Service-Learning Partnership in Asian American Studies

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 64-84
Author(s):  
Jennifer Yee ◽  
Ashley Cheri
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Partnership Development ◽  
Asian And Pacific Islander ◽  
Trust And Reciprocity

Mindfully engaging with one another on collaborative projects and relationship building is critical for sustaining partnerships of trust and reciprocity between community-based organizations (CBOs) and institutions of higher education. This resource paper presents the Sustainable-Holistic-Interconnected-Partnership (SHIP) Development Model based on a study theorizing the organizational evolution of the ten- year community-university service-learning partnership between the Youth Education Program of the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance and the Asian American Studies Program at California State University, Fullerton. The authors conducted a self- study intersecting their lenses as feminist activists of color and their use of qualitative methods. They found that they sustained their partnership by intentionally grounding their norms and practice in the values of democracy, equity, social justice, and liberation. The SHIP model has diverse implications for community-university partnerships and the fields of Asian American studies (AAS) and service learning.

RACIAL INCLUSION OR ACCOMMODATION?

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Okamoto ◽  
Melanie Jones Gast
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Asian American ◽  
San Francisco Bay Area ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Organizational Leaders ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Organizational Survival ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
Community Boundaries ◽  
Racial Inclusion

AbstractIn this paper, we examine how community-based organizations (CBOs) and their leaders negotiate and expand the boundaries of the communities they serve and represent. Drawing upon interviews with organizational leaders and documentary data from Asian American CBOs in the San Francisco Bay Area, we find that nearly all of the organizations in our sample engaged in cross-racial work, incorporating other racial groups into their programs, campaigns, and partnerships. However, leaders varied in how they understood this work as tied to maintaining or expanding their community of focus. The majority of the leaders in our sample discussed cross-racial work as a way to accommodate other racial groups while maintaining a focus on Asian Americans or Asian-ethnics. Other leaders included other racial groups, mainly Latinos and African Americans, in expanded missions and goals, broadening not only resources and collective action efforts, but also community boundaries through racial inclusion. We argue that pressures and incentives related to funding, shared interests, and organizational survival may encourage CBOs to engage in cross-racial work, but these factors do not necessarily sustain racial inclusion over time. Instead, how leaders identify and construct a sense of expanded group boundaries for the community that they serve and represent helps an organization to commit to racial inclusion.

Asian American Studies Now

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Wu ◽  
Robert G Lee ◽  
Gary Okhiro ◽  
Helen Zia ◽  
David Eng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Asian American Studies

Reflections on the Formation and Future of Asian American Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
Linda Vo
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
American Population ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Regional Economic ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Academic Trajectory ◽  
Demographic Growth

The ongoing demographic growth of the Asian American population enhances foundational support for Asian American studies; however, it also poses complex challenges for the formulation and direction of the field. Asian American studies has been shaped by transnational and regional economic and political conditions, as well as by the receptiveness and limitations of the academy, which has led to uneven disciplinary and institutional manifestations. This essay specifically analyzes what impact the transforming Asian American population has had on the formation of the field of Asian American studies and how the projected demographic growth will shape its future academic trajectory.

Pedagogy of Care in Asian American Studies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-365
Author(s):  
Aggie J. Yellow Horse ◽  
Kathryn Nakagawa
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Asian American Studies
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