What is it about?
The purpose of this study is to understand how Korean immigrant women early career scholars in higher education in the United States explore their Asian American identities in the identity-based community space. The study considered qualitative data generated by five authors in a collaborative reading group learning more about AsianCrit literature. Our analysis revealed that AsianCrit was used as a tool for revisiting our racialized experiences, negotiating tensions around key constructs of AsianCrit informed by transnational perspectives, and embracing Asian American identities in pursuit of solidarity.
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Why is it important?
While AsianCrit scholarship has underscored racialized experiences of Asian Americans in the United States, voices of transnational or first generation Asian immigrants have not been highlighted. This work contributes to expanding the scholarship of AsianCrit by highlighting its utility and possibilities to support transnational or first-generation Asian immigrants’ identity exploration in higher education. The findings also signify the identity-informed peer mentoring as a way to build Asian solidarity.
Perspectives
The collaborative narratives in this paper reveals tentions and complexity in negotiating the authors' identities that are fluid and hybrid in the racailized contexts of US higher education. It is also important to consider the role of identity-based peer mentoring as a safe space in supporting and developing faculty of color.
Taeyeon Kim
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Please join me celebrating this moment with new publication on our collective navigation on Asian American identities as Korean immigrant early-career scholars. This collaborative process on reading, discussing, and writing together helped us make sense of the racialized epistemologies imposed on Asian internationals, Asian Americans, and Asians. We're extremely thrilled to share our first (but not the last) piece of our collaborative writing!
Sun Young Lee
Wichita State University
This timely and important paper I wrote with my amazing academic friends highlights Asian internationals' socialization process in the U.S. higher education context. I'm thrilled to share years' of our collective inquiries with you!
Soo Bin Jang
Discover the compelling perspectives of Korean immigrant scholars on their experiences of being positioned as Asian/Asian Americans. Gain a deeper understanding of their journey of racialization/Asianization.
Minhye Son
California State University Dominguez Hills
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This page is a summary of: Negotiating Asian American identities: Collaborative self-study of Korean immigrant scholars’ reading group on AsianCrit., Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, April 2023, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/dhe0000481.
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