scholarly journals Select Timeline of Asian American Student Activism at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC)

2021 ◽  
pp. xix-xxiv
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
American Student ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Asian American Student ◽  
The University

Family Context

2018 ◽  
pp. 13-35
Author(s):  
Sumie Okazaki ◽  
Nancy Abelmann
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Immigrant Families ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Family Context ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Korean Families ◽  
The University ◽  
American Families ◽  
Korean American Families

This chapter sets the context for our study, including highlights from a study conducted on the campus of the University of Illinois that served as the impetus for the study of Korean American teens and parents in Chicagoland. The chapter presents the findings—as well as new questions sparked by the findings—of that campus study in light of the prevailing narrative about Korean American (and Asian American) families from previous scholarly works about the nature of intergenerational relationships in immigrant families. The Chicagoland Korean American families featured in our study are also placed in the context of the local, national, and transnational conversations that were ongoing among, and about, Korean American and Korean families and teens at the time of the study.

The comforts and discomforts of race

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Soo Ah Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Racial Segregation ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Asian American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Education Today ◽  
The University

Drawing on existing literature and student ethnographic projects, this article examines Asian American undergraduates' overwhelming focus on individual racial identity and practices of racial segregation in their ethnographic research about the University of Illinois. The author examines how such racial segregation is described and analysed as a matter of personal 'choice' and 'comfort' rather than as the result of racial inequality, racism and the marginalisation and racialisation of minority groups. This lack of structural racial analysis in the examination of Asian American students' experiences points to the depoliticisation and institutionalisation of race in higher education today. Race is understood and more readily analysed as a politically neutral concept that invokes celebration of racial diversity and 'culture' and not as a concept marked by power and inequities as it once may have been.

Asian American Student Engagement in Student Leadership and Activism

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (160) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lester J. Manzano ◽  
OiYan A. Poon ◽  
Vanessa S. Na
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Student Leadership ◽  
American Student ◽  
Asian American Student

The Asian American Movement and Critical Practice

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas S. Ishii
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Asian American Movement ◽  
Asian American Student ◽  
Movement Organizations ◽  
The University

Though Asian American literary studies bears its critical legacy, the Asian American Movement (1968–1977) is largely invisible within Asian American literary studies. This has led to a critical murkiness when it comes to discerning the extent of the Movement’s influence on Asian American literary criticism. The Movement is often remembered in literary scholarship as the activities of the Combined Asian Resources Project (CARP)—a collective of four writers who were only loosely associated with Asian American Movement organizations. As metacritical scholarship on “Asian American” as a literary category has suggested, CARP’s introductory essay to Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian-American Writers (1974) is simultaneously held as the epitome of cultural nationalism’s misogynist tendencies and as the prototypical theorization of Asian American literature. However, this essentializing of CARP as the Movement ignores how the collected writings of the Asian American Movement, Roots (1970) and Counterpoint (1976), identify literary production and criticism as sites of racial critique in distinction from CARP’s viewpoints. Literary and cultural scholarship’s deconstruction of “Asian American” as a stable term has provided the tools to expand what constitutes the literature of the Movement. As Colleen Lye notes, the Asian American 1960s novel has emerged as a form that challenges the direct association of the era with the Movement. The historical arc of the Movement as centered on campuses highlights the university as an institution that enables Asian American student organizing, from the 1968 student strikes to contemporary interracial solidarity actions, as well as their narrativization into literary forms. Expanding what counts as literature, the decades of Asian American activism after the Movement proper have been documented in the autobiographies of organizers. In this way, the Asian American Movement is not a past-tense influence, but a continuing dialectic between narration and organizing, and literature and social life.

Cultural Identity and Allegiance among Vietnamese Students and Their Organizations at the University of California, Irvine: 1980–1990

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Thai-Huy Nguyen ◽  
Marybeth Gasman
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Asian Population ◽  
Well Being ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Vietnamese Refugees ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
The University

Background Within the canon of Asian American histories and histories of student activism, little attention is given to the Vietnamese students at the University of California at Irvine, who came together to advocate for the well-being of Vietnamese refugees after the end of the Vietnam War. This study examines this history and discusses the implications for understanding the unique histories that shape the lives of our increasingly diverse student populations. Purpose The objective of this study is to unearth and examine the experiences of Vietnamese students at the University of California at Irvine after the Vietnam War, between 1980 and 1990, and how their student organizations functioned to help them make sense of their personal losses as well as mobilize their efforts to highlight the plight of Vietnamese refugees. Research Design Primary and secondary sources were used to support this historical analysis. Data Collection Archival material came from the University of California at Irvine's Southeast Asian Archive. Conclusions This study pushes back against popular historical narratives that either ignore or blur the distinct experiences, traditions, and political and economic statuses among the U.S. Asian population. We demonstrate how Vietnamese students were active in their pursuit to improve the social and political conditions for their community. Moreover, this history brings forward very critical issues of student organizing and civic engagement and immigration.

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