Longtime Sacramento community organizer Nkauj Iab Yang was sworn in Monday as the first executive director of the California Commission on Asian Pacific Islander American Affairs. Born in Del Paso Heights to Hmong refugee parents, Yang has more than 10 years of experience in community organizing and policy advocacy for Sacramento’s AAPI community. Yang most...
National exit polls showed that Asian Americans backed Joe Biden over President Trump. Political analysts say there are lessons in the wins by Steel and Kim, which came even though Biden beat Trump in Orange County, and after years of outreach by local Republicans to Asian communities. “It looked like they were taking Asian votes...
Asian Americans — one of the deciding groups in key battleground states this cycle — voted predominately for President-elect Joe Biden, according to early exit polls. In a CNN survey, 61 percent of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters backed Biden compared to 34 percent who supported President Donald Trump. In the critical swing...
The Little Saigon contest for a California Assembly seat shows the strength — and the growing diversity — of the community. While the outcome of the race for California's 72nd Assembly District is still up in the air, one thing is certain: a woman with the surname "Nguyen" will prevail. Taking place in an area...
31% voted for Donald Trump Senior researcher from AAPI Data, Janelle Wong, said the results are in line with Asian American values. “Asian Americans have been distinct from the general U.S. public when it comes to progressive views on health care, the environment, gun control and a social safety net provided by the government,” Wong...
"DEMBY: Karthick is great. I feel like interviewing Karthick is kind of a rite of passage because every one at CODE SWITCH has done so at this point. He's the director of AAPI Data, which does public opinion polling and research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders." READ/LISTEN HERE
"Historically, most Asian American voters tend to vote “blue,” and many Asian Americans found themselves voting for Joe Biden for this year’s election. By most, I mean every Asian group aside from Vietnamese voters. A recent poll survey done by advocacy groups — AAPI Data, APIA Vote and Asian Americans Advancing Justice — in September...
"Hamilton and many other Bay Area Indian Americans felt giddy this weekend as they recognized flickers of themselves in the new vice president. Harris, whose father is Jamaican and whose mother is from Tamil Nadu in India, did not tout her Indian roots during the campaign as much as she did her background as a...
A head of state prematurely declaring victory, then alleging widespread voter fraud and refusing to concede. Businesses boarding up, concerned about post-election violence, and armed activists threatening the work of elections officials. These kinds of scenes, so familiar in far-away authoritarian regimes, are unfortunately playing out in the United States today. For example, Thursday in...
Asian American voters heavily favored Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden over President Donald Trump, early exit polls indicate. The NBC News Exit Poll of early and Election Day voters indicated that 63 percent of Asian American voters across the country voted for Biden. A minority of the group voted for Trump, at 31 percent. Janelle...
Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been elected president of the United States. His vice president will be Senator Kamala Harris. Her rise to the highest office in the nation ever occupied by a woman has been full of historic milestones: the first Black woman to become San Francisco’s and then California’s top prosecutor, the second...
While Reynolds said Harris’s election demonstrates progression, she noted that former President Obama’s election “didn’t end racism” and that Harris’s win “won’t end racism or sexism.” Karthick Ramakrishnan, the director and founder of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Data, predicted there will be a “Harris effect” that will inspire more people of color and...
Experts and activists from both communities predicted that Harris, the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, would rally minority voters and keep them engaged in the political process. Since her nomination, Harris received an outpouring of support from Indian Americans and African Americans... Karthick Ramakrishnan, a political science professor at the University of...
"It was not until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965—which, after years of work by civil rights activists, outlawed discriminatory voting practices and offered equal opportunity for all members of the electorate “to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice”—that Black women could actually count on the...
The keenly-watched US election kicked off on Tuesday, with over 99 million American voters already having cast their ballot by Monday night, according to the US Election Project at the University of Florida. Fringe Indian outfit Hindu Sena organized a ‘yagna’ (a religious event) in New Delhi as it prayed for the re-election of US...
Why are Indian-Americans, just 0.82% of the total American voter base of over 240 million or just 1.9 million registered as voters and just 1% of the total US population, are seen as a rising political force with a formidable voice? Why has Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden pushed to release a statement in support...
Karthick Ramakrishnan, professor of public policy and political science at UC Riverside and founding director of the Center for Social Innovation, said there might not have been a clear verdict, “but I think what you see is that Californians are supportive of advancing social justice. They see racism as a significant problem. But when it...
Many political campaigns have historically fallen short when it comes to Asian American voter outreach. According to a survey conducted after the 2016 election by AAPI Data, an organization dedicated to studying Asian American and Pacific Islanders’ political engagement, roughly 70 percent of voters hadn’t been contacted by either political party during that cycle. And...
Jimmy Luong plans to vote for President Donald Trump and party with friends while waiting for the election results on Tuesday night. "I will vote on November 3 at a polling booth near my house. Perhaps my vote will help Trump win, or at least make Biden lost one vote," the Vietnamese-American, a resident of...
Anew book edited by UC Riverside sociology professor Ellen Reese and Cal State Long Beach professor of sociology Jake Alimahomed-Wilson examines Amazon as an architect of “surveillance capitalism” and how workers and communities in the Inland Empire and around the world resist the online commerce juggernaut. “ The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the...
