Engaging and Empowering Asian American and Immigrant Communities

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine J. Yeh ◽  
Patsy Tito ◽  
I'akabo Sao ◽  
Benson Wong ◽  
Darin Ow-Wing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Immigrant Communities

Community Forces, Social Capital, and Educational Achievement: The Case of Supplementary Education in the Chinese and Korean Immigrant Communities

2006 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIN ZHOU ◽  
SUSAN KIM
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Korean Immigrant ◽  
Supplementary Education ◽  
Community Forces

Extraordinary Asian American educational achievement has often been credited to a common cultural influence of Confucianism that emphasizes education, family honor, discipline, and respect for authority. In this article, Min Zhou and Susan Kim argue that immigration selectivity, higher than average levels of premigration and postmigration socioeconomic status, and ethnic social structures interact to create unique patterns of adaptation and social environments conducive to educational achievement. This article seeks to unpack the ethnic effect through a comparative analysis of the ethnic system of supplementary education that has developed in two immigrant communities — Chinese and Korean — in the United States. The study suggests that the cultural attributes of a group interact substantially with structural factors, particularly tangible ethnic social structures on which community forces are sustained and social capital is formed. The authors conclude that "culture" is not static and requires structural support to constantly adapt to new situations.

Buddhist Modernism from Asia to America

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-49
Author(s):  
Ann Gleig
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Buddhist Modernism ◽  
American Buddhism ◽  
American Immigrant

This chapter provides historical and theoretical contexts on the emergence of Buddhist modernism in Asia and its transmission to North America. It then offers a series of case studies that show both an interrogation of modernist features and the appearance of characteristics more associated with the postmodern, postcolonial, and postsecular within these communities. A common feature of American meditation-based Buddhism has been to extend and align with the Asian Buddhist modernist trope of distinguishing between essential and cultural Buddhism onto convert and Asian American immigrant communities. This has produced a hierarchical racialized split, which has received scant and insufficient attention in scholarship on American Buddhism.

Annual review of Asian American psychology, 2012.

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-319
Author(s):  
Christine J. Yeh ◽  
Hyung-Chol Yoo ◽  
Ynez N. Lizarraga
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
American Psychology

Exploring the conceptualization of body image for Asian American women.

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 296-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie N. Wong ◽  
Brian TaeHyuk Keum ◽  
Daniel Caffarel ◽  
Ranjana Srinivasan ◽  
Negar Morshedian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Asian American Women ◽  
American Women

Traumatic experiences and associated symptomatology in Asian American middle school students.

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-223
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Davies-Mercier ◽  
Michelle W. Woodbridge ◽  
W. Carl Sumi ◽  
S. Patrick Thornton ◽  
Katrina D. Roundfield ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
School Students
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