scholarly journals Recent Activities Against Citizens and Residents of Asian Descent

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Asian Descent

Minor Feelings in the Wake of the Atlanta Attack: How a Mom of Asian Descent Spent the First 100 hours in the Aftermath

2021 ◽  
pp. 153270862110199
Author(s):  
Pengfei Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Asian Descent ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
Mass Shooting

This autoethnographic writing documents how a family of Chinese descent spent their first 100 hours after the Atlanta Shooting on March 16, 2021, in which a White gunman killed eight people, including six Asian women. It bears witness to the rise of the anti-Asian racism in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers a snapshot of the private life of a family of Asian descent in the dawn of the Stop Asian Hate Movement. Drawing on Korean American poet Cathy Park Hong’s term minor feelings, this essay explores how emotions, rooted in racialized lived experience and triggered by the mass shooting, evolved, shifted, and fueled the sentiments that gave rise to the Stop Asian Hate Movement. Compared with the more visible violence against Asians and Asian Americans displayed on social media, it interrogates the less visible traumatic experience that haunts Asian and Asian American communities.

scholarly journals Voyageurs malgré eux: Silence, embodiment, and exposure in Minh Tran Huy and Doan Bui

2021 ◽  
pp. 095715582110259
Author(s):  
Caroline D. Laurent
Keyword(s):  
Second Generation ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
The Body ◽  
French Society ◽  
Dual Identity ◽  
Vietnamese Literature ◽  
Asian Descent ◽  
Vietnamese Community ◽  
Body Self ◽  
Do So

In recent Franco-Vietnamese literature written by descendants of immigrants, the liminality of exile is portrayed in all its complexity through migrant bodies – that of parents’ bodies – and through political and social bodies – linked to History and the Việt Kiều’s positionality in French society. The experience of external movement becomes an internal one, creating porosity between the outside and the body, self and others, places and times. This article argues that, in Minh Tran Huy’s Voyageur malgré lui and Doan Bui’s Le Silence de mon père, by representing their family’s migration, both authors present the silenced histories of the Vietnamese community in France. In order to do so, Tran Huy and Bui first focus on uncovering and writing the stories of their silent fathers: through their embodiment of exilic history, the fathers transmit the wound of their immigrant condition to their daughters. Consequently, daughters come to manifest similar bodily expressions of traumas they have not experienced and know little about. The fathers’ histories are eventually voiced and re-invested by the second generation. This shows how the unearthing of their fathers’ life stories is also about reappropriating a dual identity as well as making Asian diasporic perspectives and histories visible, notably to create new avenues of representation for French individuals of Asian descent.

Perceived Family Environment and Adjustment in American-Born and Immigrant Asian Adolescents

1999 ◽  
Vol 85 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1244-1249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Handal ◽  
Nicole Le-Stiebel ◽  
Margaret Dicarlo ◽  
Joeanne Gutzwiller
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Family Environment ◽  
Achievement Orientation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Asian Descent ◽  
Asian Adolescents

57 immigrant Asian adolescents were compared with 44 Americanborn adolescents of Asian descent to investigate differences in perceived family environment and adjustment. Immigrant Asian adolescents were significantly less adjusted, perceived significantly less independence and achievement orientation and significantly more organization in their families than their American-born peers. The family environment differences, unlike adjustment differences, persisted over length of time in the host country (USA).

First Person: The play is not the thing

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (7) ◽  
pp. 58-59
Author(s):  
Susan Kinsky
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asian ◽  
First Person ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Real People ◽  
Asian Descent

When Susan Kinsky repeatedly confused the names of two sets of parents of Southeast Asian descent, she was appalled at her carelessness. In this reflection, she describes the exchanges, reflects on why she may have continued making the same mistake, and concludes that connection was the missing link. Her students’ parents needed to become real people to her, not just names on a list.

Forever Foreign? Asian Australians Assimilating to Australian Culture Are Still Perceived as Less Australian Than White Australians

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 812-820
Author(s):  
Michael Thai ◽  
Nicholas A. Szeszeran ◽  
Matthew J. Hornsey ◽  
Fiona Kate Barlow
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Asian Descent ◽  
White Target

Westerners of Asian descent emphasize their engagement with national culture to assert their national identity. The present research investigates whether this strategy effectively enhances observers’ perceptions of Asian Westerners’ national identity. In Study 1 ( N = 160), Australian participants evaluated an Asian or White target, manipulated to be either hyper-Australian or not. In Study 2 ( N = 440), targets were additionally manipulated to be either Australian-born or not. Across both studies, Asian targets depicted as hyper-Australian, Australian-born, or both, were considered more Australian than generic Asian targets. However, Asian targets were consistently rated as less Australian than White counterparts who were depicted equivalently apart from race. Thus, the strategy of heavy engagement with the national culture increases perceptions of Asian Westerners’ national identity, but not to the point that they are considered equivalently to White Westerners.

Normal Weight Obesity: An Underrecognized Problem in Individuals of South Asian Descent

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 1638-1642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitin Kapoor ◽  
John Furler ◽  
Thomas V. Paul ◽  
Nihal Thomas ◽  
Brian Oldenburg
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Asian Descent ◽  
Normal Weight Obesity

scholarly journals Patients Prescribed Anakinra for Acute Gout Have Baseline Increased Burden of Hyperuricemia, Tophi, and Comorbidities, and Ultimate All-Cause Mortality

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 117954411989085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ena Sharma ◽  
Brian Pedersen ◽  
Robert Terkeltaub
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Interleukin 1 ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Serum Urate ◽  
Controlled Study ◽  
Acute Gout ◽  
All Cause Mortality ◽  
Asian Descent ◽  
Statin Prescription ◽  
Baseline Factors

Objective: The interleukin-1 (IL-1) receptor antagonist anakinra is an effective, off-label option in acute gout flares, when conventional therapy options are narrowed. We performed a retrospective, randomized, case-controlled study to gain clinical insight on baseline factors for gout patients most likely to receive anakinra, and ultimate mortality of those who received anakinra. Methods: Of 1451 gout patients seen between January 2003 and January 2015 in a Veterans Affairs (VA) rheumatology group practice, under stringent managed care principles, 13 (100% male), who received anakinra at least once for flares, were compared with 1:4 age- and sex-matched gout controls. Each patient’s first rheumatology encounter was studied by factor analysis for variables associated with later anakinra. Results: At baseline, patients that received anakinra had higher urate burden (palpable tophi [10/13] vs controls [16/52], P = .003), serum urate ([10.6 mg/dL] vs controls [7.6 mg/dL], P < .0001), and East Asian descent ([7/13] vs [16/52], P = .041). The anakinra group had higher ultimate all-cause mortality ([6/13] vs controls [7/52], relative risk [RR] = 3.43, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.39-8.48, P = .0076). Factor analysis showed baseline visit palpable tophus and statin use to be most strongly associated with later anakinra use. Increased mortality of anakinra users, as per a factorial analysis, was linked more strongly to comorbidities than to anakinra. Conclusions: At baseline rheumatology gout encounter, higher urate, palpable tophi, statin prescription, and East Asian descent were associated with later anakinra use for flares. Mortality was more closely associated to the presence of comorbidities at baseline rheumatology visit than to anakinra prescription.

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